These things also belong to the wise. It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment.

He that saith unto the wicked, Thou art righteous; him shall the people curse, nations shall abhor him:

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

And 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.

Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.

For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.

The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.

Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,

For 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.

Shall 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:

And they cried out all at once, saying, Away with this man, and release unto us Barabbas:

Pilate therefore, willing to release Jesus, spake again to them.

And 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.

And Pilate gave sentence that it should be as they required.

But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.

Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.

These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:

A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.