9 Bible Verses about Acquitting The Guilty

He who gives a decision for the evil-doer and he who gives a decision against the upright, are equally disgusting to the Lord.

Who for a reward give support to the cause of the sinner, and who take away the righteousness of the upright from him.

To have respect for the person of the evil-doer is not good, or to give a wrong decision against the upright.

They are banded together against the soul of the upright, to give decisions against those who have done no wrong.

He who says to the evil-doer, You are upright, will be cursed by peoples and hated by nations.

Keep yourselves far from any false business; never let the upright or him who has done no wrong be put to death: for I will make the evil-doer responsible for his sin.

Is it possible for me to let wrong scales and the bag of false weights go without punishment?

Truly, I see that it is so: and how is it possible for a man to get his right before God?

And they may have righteousness put to their credit, freely, by his grace, through the salvation which is in Christ Jesus: Whom God has put forward as the sign of his mercy, through faith, by his blood, to make clear his righteousness when, in his pity, God let the sins of earlier times go without punishment; And to make clear his righteousness now, so that he might himself be upright, and give righteousness to him who has faith in Jesus.