Deuteronomy 25:1

Translations

Modern

If there is a dispute between men, they are to go to court to be judged, so that the innocent may be acquitted and the guilty condemned.

Traditional

If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.

Literal

If there is a dispute between men, and they come to the court, they are to be judged, and the righteous shall be declared righteous, and the wicked condemned.

Latin

Si fuerit causa inter aliquos, et interpellaverint judices: quem justum esse perspexerint, illi justitiæ palmam dabunt: quem impium, condemnabunt impietatis.

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English

If there is a dispute between men, they are to go to court to be judged, so that the innocent may be acquitted and the guilty condemned.

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Proverbs 17:15
Acquitting the guilty and condemning the righteous—both are detestable to the LORD.
Deuteronomy 17:8–9
If a case is too difficult for you to judge, whether the controversy within your gates is regarding bloodshed, lawsuits, or assaults, you must go up to the place the LORD your God will choose.
Deuteronomy 1:16–17
At that time I charged your judges: “Hear the disputes between your brothers, and judge fairly between a man and his brother or a foreign resident.
Isaiah 5:23
…who acquit the guilty for a bribe and deprive the innocent of justice.
Micah 3:1–2
Then I said: “Hear now, O leaders of Jacob, you rulers of the house of Israel. Should you not know justice?
Habakkuk 1:4
Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted.
Job 29:7–17
When I went out to the city gate and took my seat in the public square,
Malachi 3:18
So you will again distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.”
2 Samuel 23:3
The God of Israel spoke; the Rock of Israel said to me, ‘He who rules the people with justice, who rules in the fear of God,
Deuteronomy 19:17–19
…both parties to the dispute must stand in the presence of the LORD, before the priests and judges who are in office at that time.
Ezekiel 44:24
In any dispute, they shall officiate as judges and judge according to My ordinances. They must keep My laws and statutes regarding all My appointed feasts, and they must keep My Sabbaths holy.
Isaiah 11:4
…but with righteousness He will judge the poor, and with equity He will decide for the lowly of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of His mouth and slay the wicked with the breath of His lips.

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