Luke 23:24

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

“Keep far from a false charge, and don’t kill the innocent and righteous; for I will not justify the wicked.

You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality. You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.

Also to punish the righteous is not good, nor to flog officials for their integrity.

He who says to the wicked, “You are righteous,” peoples will curse him, and nations will abhor him—

who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice for the innocent!

When he found out that he was in Herod’s jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod, who was also in Jerusalem during those days.

“You shall not follow a crowd to do evil. You shall not testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice.

They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.

To be partial to the faces of the wicked is not good, nor to deprive the innocent of justice.

I gave my back to those who beat me, and my cheeks to those who plucked off the hair. I didn’t hide my face from shame and spitting.

But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed.

and they bound him, and led him away, and delivered him up to Pontius Pilate, the governor.

I will therefore chastise him and release him.”

Don’t judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.”

But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter.

“ ‘You shall do no injustice in judgment. You shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness.

You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is God’s. The case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.”

You shall not do so to Yahweh your God; for every abomination to Yahweh, which he hates, they have done to their gods; for they even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.

You shall not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, nor take a widow’s clothing in pledge;

If there is a controversy between men, and they come to judgment and the judges judge them, then they shall justify the righteous and condemn the wicked.

‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose today whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”

then hear from heaven, act, and judge your servants, bringing retribution to the wicked, to bring his way on his own head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.

because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and didn’t go out of the door—

My son, don’t walk on the path with them. Keep your foot from their path,

There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him:

Most certainly, the evil man will not be unpunished, but the offspring of the righteous will be delivered.

At that time, Herod the tetrarch heard the report concerning Jesus,

and will hand him over to the Gentiles to mock, to scourge, and to crucify; and the third day he will be raised up.”

They will mock him, spit on him, scourge him, and kill him. On the third day he will rise again.”

Now in those days, a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be enrolled.

This was the first enrollment made when Quirinius was governor of Syria.

but Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias, his brother’s wife, and for all the evil things which Herod had done,

Now Herod the tetrarch heard of all that was done by him; and he was very perplexed, because it was said by some that John had risen from the dead,

“For truly, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together against your holy servant, Jesus, whom you anointed,

Now in the assembly that was at Antioch there were some prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen the foster brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs. To him will the obedience of the peoples be.

It shall be, if the wicked man is worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down and to be beaten before his face, according to his wickedness, by number.

Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned; for I have transgressed the commandment of Yahweh, and your words, because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.

Be exalted, God, above the heavens. Let your glory be over all the earth.

The plowers plowed on my back. They made their furrows long.

He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the righteous, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.

The fear of man proves to be a snare, but whoever puts his trust in Yahweh is kept safe.

Please listen to this, you heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice, and pervert all equity.

But if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ you wouldn’t have condemned the guiltless.

For Herod had arrested John, and bound him, and put him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife.

Then he released to them Barabbas, but Jesus he flogged and delivered to be crucified.

For Herod himself had sent out and arrested John, and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, for he had married her.

Pilate, wishing to please the multitude, released Barabbas to them, and handed over Jesus, when he had flogged him, to be crucified.

Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,

They will scourge and kill him. On the third day, he will rise again.”

But they were urgent with loud voices, asking that he might be crucified. Their voices and the voices of the chief priests prevailed.

He released him who had been thrown into prison for insurrection and murder, for whom they asked, but he delivered Jesus up to their will.

Then they all shouted again, saying, “Not this man, but Barabbas!” Now Barabbas was a robber.

So Pilate then took Jesus, and flogged him.

So then he delivered him to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus and led him away.

The multitude rose up together against them and the magistrates tore their clothes from them, then commanded them to be beaten with rods.

Therefore don’t yield to them, for more than forty men lie in wait for him, who have bound themselves under a curse to neither eat nor drink until they have killed him. Now they are ready, looking for the promise from you.”

He asked them to provide animals, that they might set Paul on one, and bring him safely to Felix the governor.

“Claudius Lysias to the most excellent governor Felix: Greetings.

But when two years were fulfilled, Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus, and desiring to gain favor with the Jews, Felix left Paul in bonds.

But Festus, desiring to gain favor with the Jews, answered Paul and said, “Are you willing to go up to Jerusalem, and be judged by me there concerning these things?”

The king rose up with the governor, and Bernice, and those who sat with them.

But of the other apostles I saw no one except James, the Lord’s brother.

Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment.

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.

as also in all of his letters, speaking in them of these things. In those, there are some things that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

Beloved, don’t imitate that which is evil, but that which is good. He who does good is of God. He who does evil hasn’t seen God.