Proverbs 17:15
He that justifies the wicked, and he that condemns the just, even they both are abomination to the LORD.
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In Context
16Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he has no heart to it?
Cross References
Exodus 23:7Keep you far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay you not: for I will not justify the wicked.
1 Kings 21:13And there came in two men, children of Belial, and sat before him: and the men of Belial witnessed against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth did blaspheme God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died.
Proverbs 11:1A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.
Proverbs 18:5It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment.
Proverbs 24:24He that says unto the wicked, You are righteous; him shall the people curse, nations shall detest him:
Isaiah 55:8For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, says 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 →