9 Bible Verses about Acquitting The Guilty
Most Relevant Verses
He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous, the two of them [are] both abominations of Yahweh.
Those who acquit the guilty because of a bribe and remove [the] justice of [the] innocent from him.
Being partial [to] faces of evil [is] not good, [nor] to subvert the righteous at the judgment.
They band together against [the] life of [the] righteous, and declare [the] blameless guilty of blood.
Whoever says to the guilty, "You are righteous," the people will curse him; the nations will abhor him.
You will stay far from a {false charge}, and do not kill [the] innocent and [the] righteous, because I will not declare [the] wicked righteous.
Shall I regard as pure [the one] with scales of wickedness, and with a bag of deceitful weights?
"Truly I know that [it is] so, but how can a human being be just before God?
being justified as a gift by his grace, through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus, whom God made publicly available as the mercy seat through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness, because of the passing over of previously committed sins, in the forbearance of God, for the demonstration of his righteousness in the present time, so that he should be just and the one who justifies the [person] by faith in Jesus.
Bible Theasaurus
- Acquitting (3 instances)
- Guilty (174 instances)