9 Bible Verses about Acquitting The Guilty

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

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

It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment.

They assemble themselves against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.

He that saith to 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.

Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?

I know it to be so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?

Being justified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Jesus Christ: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation, through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he may be just, and the justifier of him who believeth in Jesus.