179 verses

Gen 38:26

(NIV)
Judah recognised them and said, ‘She is more righteous than I, since I wouldn’t give her to my son Shelah.’ And he did not sleep with her again.

(ESV)
Then Judah identified them and said, “She is more righteous than I, since I did not give her to my son Shelah.” And he did not know her again.

Gen 44:16

(NIV)
‘What can we say to my lord?’ Judah replied. ‘What can we say? How can we prove our innocence? God has uncovered your servants’ guilt. We are now my lord’s slaves – we ourselves and the one who was found to have the cup.’

(ESV)
And Judah said, “What shall we say to my lord? What shall we speak? Or how can we clear ourselves? God has found out the guilt of your servants; behold, we are my lord’s servants, both we and he also in whose hand the cup has been found.”

Exod 23:7

(NIV)
Have nothing to do with a false charge and do not put an innocent or honest person to death, for I will not acquit the guilty.

(ESV)
Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent and righteous, for I will not acquit the wicked.

Deut 25:1

(NIV)
When people have a dispute, they are to take it to court and the judges will decide the case, acquitting the innocent and condemning the guilty.
(ESV)
If there is a dispute between men and they come into court and the judges decide between them, acquitting the innocent and condemning the guilty,

2Sam 15:4

(NIV)
And Absalom would add, ‘If only I were appointed judge in the land! Then everyone who has a complaint or case could come to me and I would see that they receive justice.’

(ESV)
Then Absalom would say, Oh that I were judge in the land! Then every man with a dispute or cause might come to me, and I would give him justice.”

1Kgs 8:32

(NIV)
then hear from heaven and act. Judge between your servants, condemning the guilty by bringing down on their heads what they have done, and vindicating the innocent by treating them in accordance with their innocence.

(ESV)
then hear in heaven and act and judge your servants, condemning the guilty by bringing his conduct on his own head, and vindicating the righteous by rewarding him according to his righteousness.

2Chr 6:23

(NIV)
then hear from heaven and act. Judge between your servants, condemning the guilty and bringing down on their heads what they have done, and vindicating the innocent by treating them in accordance with their innocence.

(ESV)
then hear from heaven and act and judge your servants, repaying the guilty by bringing his conduct on his own head, and vindicating the righteous by rewarding him according to his righteousness.

Esth 3:8

(NIV)
Then Haman said to King Xerxes, ‘There is a certain people dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom who keep themselves separate. Their customs are different from those of all other people, and they do not obey the king’s laws; it is not in the king’s best interest to tolerate them.
(ESV)
Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom. Their laws are different from those of every other people, and they do not keep the king’s laws, so that it is not to the king’s profit to tolerate them.

Esth 5:13

(NIV)
But all this gives me no satisfaction as long as I see that Jew Mordecai sitting at the king’s gate.’

(ESV)
Yet all this is worth nothing to me, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.”

Esth 7:4

(NIV)
For I and my people have been sold to be destroyed, killed and annihilated. If we had merely been sold as male and female slaves, I would have kept quiet, because no such distress would justify disturbing the king. ’

(ESV)
For we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be killed, and to be annihilated. If we had been sold merely as slaves, men and women, I would have been silent, for our affliction is not to be compared with the loss to the king.”

Job 4:17

(NIV)
“Can a mortal be more righteous than God?
Can even a strong man be more pure than his Maker?
(ESV)
‘Can mortal man be in the right before God?
Can a man be pure before his Maker?

Job 9:2

(NIV)
‘Indeed, I know that this is true.
But how can mere mortals prove their innocence before God?
(ESV)
“Truly I know that it is so:
But how can a man be in the right before God?

Job 9:15

(NIV)
Though I were innocent, I could not answer him;
I could only plead with my Judge for mercy.
(ESV)
Though I am in the right, I cannot answer him;
I must appeal for mercy to my accuser.

Job 9:20

(NIV)
Even if I were innocent, my mouth would condemn me;
if I were blameless, it would pronounce me guilty.
(ESV)
Though I am in the right, my own mouth would condemn me;
though I am blameless, he would prove me perverse.

Job 10:15

(NIV)
If I am guilty – woe to me!
Even if I am innocent, I cannot lift my head,
for I am full of shame
and drowned in my affliction.
(ESV)
If I am guilty, woe to me!
If I am in the right, I cannot lift up my head,
for I am filled with disgrace
and look on my affliction.

Job 11:2

(NIV)
‘Are all these words to go unanswered?
Is this talker to be vindicated?
(ESV)
“Should a multitude of words go unanswered,
and a man full of talk be judged right?

Job 13:18

(NIV)
Now that I have prepared my case,
I know I will be vindicated.
(ESV)
Behold, I have prepared my case;
I know that I shall be in the right.

Job 15:14

(NIV)
‘What are mortals, that they could be pure,
or those born of woman, that they could be righteous?
(ESV)
What is man, that he can be pure?
Or he who is born of a woman, that he can be righteous?

Job 22:3

(NIV)
What pleasure would it give the Almighty if you were righteous?
What would he gain if your ways were blameless?
(ESV)
Is it any pleasure to the Almighty if you are in the right,
or is it gain to him if you make your ways blameless?

Job 25:4

(NIV)
How then can a mortal be righteous before God?
How can one born of woman be pure?
(ESV)
How then can man be in the right before God?
How can he who is born of woman be pure?

Job 27:5

(NIV)
I will never admit you are in the right;
till I die, I will not deny my integrity.
(ESV)
Far be it from me to say that you are right;
till I die I will not put away my integrity from me.

Job 30:22

(NIV)
You snatch me up and drive me before the wind;
you toss me about in the storm.
(ESV)
You lift me up on the wind; you make me ride on it,
and you toss me about in the roar of the storm.

Job 32:2

(NIV)
But Elihu son of Barakel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, became very angry with Job for justifying himself rather than God.
(ESV)
Then Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, burned with anger. He burned with anger at Job because he justified himself rather than God.

Job 33:12

(NIV)
‘But I tell you, in this you are not right,
for God is greater than any mortal.
(ESV)
Behold, in this you are not right. I will answer you,
for God is greater than man.

Job 33:27

(NIV)
And they will go to others and say,
“I have sinned, and I have perverted what is right,
but I did not get what I deserved.
(ESV)
He sings before men and says:
‘I sinned and perverted what was right,
and it was not repaid to me.

Job 33:32

(NIV)
If you have anything to say, answer me;
speak up, for I want to vindicate you.
(ESV)
If you have any words, answer me;
speak, for I desire to justify you.

Job 34:5

(NIV)
‘Job says, “I am innocent,
but God denies me justice.
(ESV)
For Job has said, ‘I am in the right,
and God has taken away my right;

Job 35:7

(NIV)
If you are righteous, what do you give to him,
or what does he receive from your hand?
(ESV)
If you are righteous, what do you give to him?
Or what does he receive from your hand?

Job 40:8

(NIV)
‘Would you discredit my justice?
Would you condemn me to justify yourself?
(ESV)
Will you even put me in the wrong?
Will you condemn me that you may be in the right?

Ps 19:9

(NIV)
The fear of the Lord is pure,
enduring for ever.
The decrees of the Lord are firm,
and all of them are righteous.
(ESV)
the fear of the Lord is clean,
enduring forever;
the rules of the Lord are true,
and righteous altogether.

Ps 51:4

(NIV)
Against you, you only, have I sinned
and done what is evil in your sight;
so you are right in your verdict
and justified when you judge.
(ESV)
Against you, you only, have I sinned
and done what is evil in your sight,
so that you may be justified in your words
and blameless in your judgment.

Ps 73:13

(NIV)
Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure
and have washed my hands in innocence.
(ESV)
All in vain have I kept my heart clean
and washed my hands in innocence.

Ps 82:3

(NIV)
Defend the weak and the fatherless;
uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed.
(ESV)
Give justice to the weak and the fatherless;
maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute.

(NIV) (ESV)

Beth

Ps 119:9

(NIV)
How can a young person stay on the path of purity?
By living according to your word.
(ESV)
How can a young man keep his way pure?
By guarding it according to your word.

Ps 119:30

(NIV)
I have chosen the way of faithfulness;
I have set my heart on your laws.
(ESV)
I have chosen the way of faithfulness;
I set your rules before me.

Ps 131:2

(NIV)
But I have calmed and quietened myself,
I am like a weaned child with its mother;
like a weaned child I am content.
(ESV)
But I have calmed and quieted my soul,
like a weaned child with its mother;
like a weaned child is my soul within me.

Ps 143:2

(NIV)
Do not bring your servant into judgment,
for no one living is righteous before you.
(ESV)
Enter not into judgment with your servant,
for no one living is righteous before you.

Prov 3:15

(NIV)
She is more precious than rubies;
nothing you desire can compare with her.
(ESV)
She is more precious than jewels,
and nothing you desire can compare with her.

Prov 8:11

(NIV)
for wisdom is more precious than rubies,
and nothing you desire can compare with her.
(ESV)
for wisdom is better than jewels,
and all that you may desire cannot compare with her.

Prov 17:15

(NIV)
Acquitting the guilty and condemning the innocent –
the Lord detests them both.
(ESV)
He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous
are both alike an abomination to the Lord.

Prov 20:9

(NIV)
Who can say, ‘I have kept my heart pure;
I am clean and without sin’?
(ESV)
Who can say, “I have made my heart pure;
I am clean from my sin”?

Prov 26:4

(NIV)
Do not answer a fool according to his folly,
or you yourself will be just like him.
(ESV)
Answer not a fool according to his folly,
lest you be like him yourself.

Prov 27:15

(NIV)
A quarrelsome wife is like the dripping
of a leaky roof in a rainstorm;
(ESV)
A continual dripping on a rainy day
and a quarrelsome wife are alike;

Isa 1:16

(NIV)
Wash and make yourselves clean.
Take your evil deeds out of my sight;
stop doing wrong.
(ESV)
Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean;
remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes;
cease to do evil,

Isa 5:23

(NIV)
who acquit the guilty for a bribe,
but deny justice to the innocent.
(ESV)
who acquit the guilty for a bribe,
and deprive the innocent of his right!

Isa 28:25

(NIV)
When he has levelled the surface,
does he not sow caraway and scatter cummin?
Does he not plant wheat in its place,
barley in its plot,
and spelt in its field?
(ESV)
When he has leveled its surface,
does he not scatter dill, sow cumin,
and put in wheat in rows
and barley in its proper place,
and emmer as the border?

Isa 40:25

(NIV)
‘To whom will you compare me?
Or who is my equal?’ says the Holy One.
(ESV)
To whom then will you compare me,
that I should be like him? says the Holy One.

Isa 43:9

(NIV)
All the nations gather together
and the peoples assemble.
Which of their gods foretold this
and proclaimed to us the former things?
Let them bring in their witnesses to prove they were right,
so that others may hear and say, ‘It is true.’
(ESV)
All the nations gather together,
and the peoples assemble.
Who among them can declare this,
and show us the former things?
Let them bring their witnesses to prove them right,
and let them hear and say, It is true.

Isa 43:26

(NIV)
Review the past for me,
let us argue the matter together;
state the case for your innocence.
(ESV)
Put me in remembrance; let us argue together;
set forth your case, that you may be proved right.

Isa 45:25

(NIV)
But all the descendants of Israel
will find deliverance in the Lord
and will make their boast in him.
(ESV)
In the Lord all the offspring of Israel
shall be justified and shall glory.”

Isa 46:5

(NIV)
‘With whom will you compare me or count me equal?
To whom will you liken me that we may be compared?
(ESV)
“To whom will you liken me and make me equal,
and compare me, that we may be alike?

Isa 50:8

(NIV)
He who vindicates me is near.
Who then will bring charges against me?
Let us face each other!
Who is my accuser?
Let him confront me!
(ESV)
He who vindicates me is near.
Who will contend with me?
Let us stand up together.
Who is my adversary?
Let him come near to me.

Isa 53:11

(NIV)
After he has suffered,
he will see the light of life and be satisfied;
by his knowledge my righteous servant will justify many,
and he will bear their iniquities.
(ESV)
Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied;
by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant,
make many to be accounted righteous,
and he shall bear their iniquities.

Jer 3:11

(NIV)
The Lord said to me, ‘Faithless Israel is more righteous than unfaithful Judah.
(ESV)
And the Lord said to me, “Faithless Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.

Lam 2:13

(NIV)
What can I say for you?
With what can I compare you,
Daughter Jerusalem?
To what can I liken you,
that I may comfort you,
Virgin Daughter Zion?
Your wound is as deep as the sea.
Who can heal you?
(ESV)
What can I say for you, to what compare you,
O daughter of Jerusalem?
What can I liken to you, that I may comfort you,
O virgin daughter of Zion?
For your ruin is vast as the sea;
who can heal you?

Ezek 16:51

(NIV)
Samaria did not commit half the sins you did. You have done more detestable things than they, and have made your sisters seem righteous by all these things you have done.
(ESV)
Samaria has not committed half your sins. You have committed more abominations than they, and have made your sisters appear righteous by all the abominations that you have committed.

Ezek 16:52

(NIV)
Bear your disgrace, for you have furnished some justification for your sisters. Because your sins were more vile than theirs, they appear more righteous than you. So then, be ashamed and bear your disgrace, for you have made your sisters appear righteous.

(ESV)
Bear your disgrace, you also, for you have intervened on behalf of your sisters. Because of your sins in which you acted more abominably than they, they are more in the right than you. So be ashamed, you also, and bear your disgrace, for you have made your sisters appear righteous.

Dan 8:14

(NIV)
He said to me, ‘It will take 2,300 evenings and mornings; then the sanctuary will be reconsecrated.’

(ESV)
And he said to me, “For 2,300 evenings and mornings. Then the sanctuary shall be restored to its rightful state.”

Dan 12:3

(NIV)
Those who are wise will shine like the brightness of the heavens, and those who lead many to righteousness, like the stars for ever and ever.
(ESV)
And those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the sky above; and those who turn many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever.

Mic 6:11

(NIV)
Shall I acquit someone with dishonest scales,
with a bag of false weights?
(ESV)
Shall I acquit the man with wicked scales
and with a bag of deceitful weights?
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