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Proverbs 18:5

5 To ashow partiality to the wicked is not good,

Nor to bthrust aside the righteous in judgment.

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Proverbs 18:5 — The New International Version (NIV)

It is not good to be partial to the wicked

and so deprive the innocent of justice.

Proverbs 18:5 — English Standard Version (ESV)

It is not good to be partial to the wicked

or to deprive the righteous of justice.

Proverbs 18:5 — King James Version (KJV 1900)

It is not good to accept the person of the wicked,

To overthrow the righteous in judgment.

Proverbs 18:5 — New Living Translation (NLT)

It is not right to acquit the guilty

or deny justice to the innocent.

Proverbs 18:5 — The New King James Version (NKJV)

It is not good to show partiality to the wicked,

Or to overthrow the righteous in judgment.

Proverbs 18:5 — New Century Version (NCV)

It is not good to honor the wicked

or to be unfair to the innocent.

Proverbs 18:5 — American Standard Version (ASV)

To respect the person of the wicked is not good,

Nor to turn aside the righteous in judgment.

Proverbs 18:5 — 1890 Darby Bible (DARBY)

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

Proverbs 18:5 — GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)

It is not good to be partial toward a wicked person, 

thereby depriving an innocent person of justice. 

Proverbs 18:5 — The Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

It is not good to show partiality to the guilty

by perverting the justice due the innocent.

Proverbs 18:5 — The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

It is not right to be partial to the guilty,

or to subvert the innocent in judgment.

Proverbs 18:5 — The Lexham English Bible (LEB)

Being partial to faces of evil is not good,

nor to subvert the righteous at the judgment.

Proverbs 18:5 — New International Reader’s Version (1998) (NIrV)

It isn’t good to favor those who do wrong.

And it isn’t good to hold back what is fair from those who aren’t guilty.


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