Exodus 23:7
23:7 Keep your distance
from a false charge
– do not kill the innocent and the righteous,
for I will not justify the wicked.
Proverbs 17:15
17:15 The one who acquits the guilty and the one who condemns the innocent –
both of them are an abomination to the Lord.
Isaiah 3:10
3:10 Tell the innocent it will go well with them,
for they will be rewarded for what they have done.
Ezekiel 18:20
18:20 The person who sins is the one who will die. A son will not suffer
for his father’s iniquity, and a father will not suffer
for his son’s iniquity; the righteous person will be judged according to his righteousness, and the wicked person according to his wickedness.
Romans 2:13
2:13 For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous before God, but those who do the law will be declared righteous.
Romans 7:9
7:9 And I was once alive apart from the law, but with the coming of the commandment sin became alive