Deuteronomy 25:1
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.
KJV
Si fuerit causa inter aliquos, et interpellaverint judices : quem justum esse perspexerint, illi justitiæ palmam dabunt : quem impium, condemnabunt impietatis.
Vulgate
Ἐὰν δὲ γένηται ἀντιλογία ἀνὰ μέσον ἀνθρώπων, καὶ προσέλθωσιν εἰς κρίσιν, καὶ δικαιώσωσιν τὸ δίκαιον καὶ καταγνῶσιν τοῦ ἀσεβοῦς·
LXX
If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, and the judges judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.
ASV
כִּֽי יִהְיֶ֥ה רִיב֙ בֵּ֣ין אֲנָשִׁ֔ים וְ/נִגְּשׁ֥וּ אֶל הַ/מִּשְׁפָּ֖ט וּ/שְׁפָט֑וּ/ם וְ/הִצְדִּ֨יקוּ֙ אֶת הַ/צַּדִּ֔יק וְ/הִרְשִׁ֖יעוּ אֶת הָ/רָשָֽׁע
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
14 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 1Kgs 8:32 — Then hear thou in heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way upon his head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.
- Acts 23:3 — Then said Paul unto him, God shall smite thee, thou whited wall: for sittest thou to judge me after the law, and commandest me to be smitten contrary to the law?
- Deut 1:16 — And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him.
- Deut 17:8 — If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou ari
- Exod 22:9 — For all manner of trespass, whether it be for ox, for ass, for sheep, for raiment, or for any manner of lost thing, which another challengeth to be his, the cause of both parties shall come before the
- Prov 17:15 — He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the LORD.
- Rom 13:3 — For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same: