Does Proverbs 24:17 mean that being glad when justice comes to a criminal is also wrong?
What about feeling joy and laughing when you see criminals get sentenced to prison? Is it wrong? Is it sin?
Proverbs 24:17
ESV - 17 Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, and let not your heart be glad when he stumbles.
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Asked January 06 2014
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Gareth Mccombe
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linda rodriquez
It hard not to be glad when criminal s get sent to prison for killing innocent people.like the Lacy murder. When I watch it on TV I feel hate towards the husband for killing his sweet, innocent, wife and unborn child, and I am happy he went to jail. Sometime I wish he would suffer the same terribly fate at the hand of a madman like himself. Of course I receive forgiveness for those thought and feelings afterwards. God is good.
Gareth Mccombe
hmmm i see were your comming from, i like to watch police interceptors on tv and i do like to see it when they do a drugs bust and people get sentenced for quite a number of years.