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Exodus 23:7

WEB

7Keep far from a false charge, and don’t kill the innocent and righteous; for I will not justify the wicked.

KJV

7Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.

BSB

7Stay far away from a false accusation. Do not kill the innocent or the just, for I will not acquit the guilty.

FBV

7Don't have anything to do with making false accusations. Don't kill the innocent or those who do right, for I won't let the guilty go unpunished.

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Extra References

Ephesians 4:25

25Therefore, putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor, for we are members of one another.


Deuteronomy 27:25

25‘Cursed is he who takes a bribe to kill an innocent person.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’


Exodus 23:1

1You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.


Exodus 34:7

7keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children’s children, on the third and on the fourth generation.”


1 Thessalonians 5:22

22Abstain from every form of evil.


Leviticus 19:11

11“‘You shall not steal. “‘You shall not lie. “‘You shall not deceive one another.


Deuteronomy 19:16-21

16If an unrighteous witness rises up against any man to testify against him of wrongdoing, 17then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges who shall be in those days; 18and the judges shall make diligent inquisition; and behold, if the witness is a false witness, and has testified falsely against his brother, 19then you shall do to him as he had thought to do to his brother. So you shall remove the evil from among you. 20Those who remain shall hear, and fear, and will never again commit any such evil among you. 21Your eyes shall not pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.


Romans 1:18

18For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,


Romans 2:5-6

5But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God, 6whowill pay back to everyone according to their works:”


Proverbs 17:15

15He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the righteous, both of them alike are an abomination to the LORD.