Proverbs 17:15
He that iustifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the iust, euen they both are abomination to the Lord.
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In Context
16Wherefore is there a price in the hand of the foole to get wisdome, and he hath none heart?
Cross References
Exodus 23:7Thou shalt keepe thee farre from a false matter, and shalt not slaye the innocent and the righteous: for I will not iustifie a wicked man.
1 Kings 21:13And there came two wicked men, and sate before him: and the wicked men witnessed against Naboth in the presence of the people saying, Naboth did blaspheme God and the King. Then they caried him away out of the citie, and stoned him with stones, that he dyed.
Proverbs 11:1False balances are an abomination vnto the Lord: but a perfite weight pleaseth him.
Proverbs 18:5It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to cause ye righteous to fall in iudgement.
Proverbs 24:24He that saith to the wicked, Thou art righteous, him shall the people curse, and the multitude shall abhorre him.
Isaiah 55:8For my thoughtes are not your thoughts, neither are your wayes my wayes, sayth the Lord.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 17:15
14 The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with. Here is, 1. The danger that there is in the beginning of strife. One hot word, one peevish reflection, one angry demand, one spiteful contradiction, begets another, and that a third, and so on, till it proves like the cutting of a dam; when the water has got a little passage it does itself widen the breach, bears down all before it, and there is then no stopping it, no reducing it. 2. A good… Read the whole commentary →