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Prov. 17:15 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Hep that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the Lord.

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Ex. 23:7• ⁷Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked. (Ex. 23:7)

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Isa. 5:23‑24• ²³Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!
²⁴Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the Lord of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel. (Isa. 5:23‑24)

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that justifieth.

Prov. 24:23‑24• ²³These things also belong to the wise. It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment.
²⁴He that saith unto the wicked, Thou art righteous; him shall the people curse, nations shall abhor him: (Prov. 24:23‑24)

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Ex. 23:7• ⁷Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked. (Ex. 23:7)

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1 Kings 21:13• 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. (1 Kings 21:13)

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Isa. 5:23• ²³Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him! (Isa. 5:23)

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Isa. 55:8‑9• ⁸For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.
⁹For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. (Isa. 55:8‑9)

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Ezek. 22:27‑29• ²⁷Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.
²⁸And her prophets have daubed them with untempered mortar, seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord God, when the Lord hath not spoken.
²⁹The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully. (Ezek. 22:27‑29)

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Amos 5:7,12• ⁷Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,
¹²For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right. (Amos 5:7,12)

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Amos 6:12• ¹²Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock: (Amos 6:12)

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Luke 23:18‑25• ¹⁸And they cried out all at once, saying, Away with this man, and release unto us Barabbas:
¹⁹(Who for a certain sedition made in the city, and for murder, was cast into prison.)
²⁰Pilate therefore, willing to release Jesus, spake again to them.
²¹But they cried, saying, Crucify him, crucify him.
²²And he said unto them the third time, Why, what evil hath he done? I have found no cause of death in him: I will therefore chastise him, and let him go.
²³And they were instant with loud voices, requiring that he might be crucified. And the voices of them and of the chief priests prevailed.
²⁴And Pilate gave sentence that it should be as they required.
²⁵And he released unto them him that for sedition and murder was cast into prison, whom they had desired; but he delivered Jesus to their will. (Luke 23:18‑25)

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Rom. 4:5• ⁵But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. (Rom. 4:5)

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James 5:6• ⁶Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you. (James 5:6)

abomination.

Prov. 6:16• ¹⁶These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: (Prov. 6:16)

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Prov. 11:1• ¹A false balance is abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is his delight. (Prov. 11:1)

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Prov. 15:8• ⁸The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord: but the prayer of the upright is his delight. (Prov. 15:8)

• To justify the wicked and to condemn the righteous is to call evil good, and good evil (Isa. 5:20). Jehovah would have judgment according to truth. What is opposed to this is an abomination. Observe that to justify necessarily means to clear, or to declare righteous; not, as some theologians would have it, to make righteous. (“Proverbs Seventeen” by H.A. Ironside)

• Here, to justify the lawless is to wink at sin and to pass by iniquity without a suited atonement; while to condemn the just is to impute evil where it is not found. (“Proverbs Seventeen” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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He that justifieth the wickedd, and he that condemneth the righteousd, even they both are abomination to Jehovah.

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The words are in the singular and characteristic; and so in ch. 18.5.