Isaiah 5:23

Isaiah 5:23
who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice for the innocent!

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Exodus 23:6
“You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.

Exodus 23:9
“You shall not oppress an alien, for you know the heart of an alien, since you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

Psalms 82:2
“How long will you judge unjustly, and show partiality to the wicked?” Selah.

Psalms 82:3
“Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.

Psalms 94:21
They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.

Proverbs 24:23
These also are sayings of the wise: To show partiality in judgment is not good.

Proverbs 31:5
lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the justice due to anyone who is afflicted.

Isaiah 59:14
Justice is turned away backward, and righteousness stands far away; for truth has fallen in the street, and uprightness can’t enter.

Jeremiah 5:27
As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. Therefore they have become great, and grew rich.

Jeremiah 5:28
They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excel in deeds of wickedness. They don’t plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don’t defend the rights of the needy.

Jeremiah 6:13
“For from their least even to their greatest, everyone is given to covetousness. From the prophet even to the priest, everyone deals falsely.

Ezekiel 22:12
In you have they taken bribes to shed blood. You have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me,” says the Lord Yahweh.

Amos 5:11
Therefore, because you trample on the poor and take taxes from him of wheat, you have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.

Micah 3:10
who build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

Habakkuk 1:4
Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice comes out perverted.

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Proverbs 20:1
Wine is a mocker and beer is a brawler. Whoever is led astray by them is not wise.

Isaiah 5:5
Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away its hedge, and it will be eaten up. I will break down its wall, and it will be trampled down.

Isaiah 5:8
Woe to those who join house to house, who lay field to field, until there is no room, and you are made to dwell alone in the middle of the land!

Isaiah 5:11
Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink, who stay late into the night, until wine inflames them!

Isaiah 5:12
The harp, lyre, tambourine, and flute, with wine, are at their feasts; but they don’t respect the work of Yahweh, neither have they considered the operation of his hands.

Isaiah 5:21
Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!

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Isaiah 45:13
I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will make all his ways straight. He shall build my city, and he shall let my exiles go free, not for price nor reward,” says Yahweh of Armies.

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Proverbs 15:27
He who is greedy for gain troubles his own house, but he who hates bribes will live.

Isaiah 3:1
For, behold, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah supply and support, the whole supply of bread, and the whole supply of water;

Isaiah 3:15
What do you mean that you crush my people, and grind the face of the poor?” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.

Amos 5:7
You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth!

James 5:6
You have condemned and you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn’t resist you.

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Matthew 27:24
So when Pilate saw that nothing was being gained, but rather that a disturbance was starting, he took water and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, “I am innocent of the blood of this righteous person. You see to it.”

Matthew 27:25
All the people answered, “May his blood be on us and on our children!”

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