Deuteronomy 16:19
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19 You must not distort justice; you must not show partiality; and you must not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and subverts the cause of those who are in the right.(A)
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Leviticus 19:15
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15 “You shall not render an unjust judgment; you shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great: with justice you shall judge your neighbor.(A)
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Exodus 23:2
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2 You shall not follow a majority in wrongdoing; when you bear witness in a lawsuit, you shall not side with the majority so as to pervert justice,[a](A)
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- 23.2 Gk: Heb lacks justice
Proverbs 17:23
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23 The wicked accept a concealed bribe
to pervert the ways of justice.(A)
Habakkuk 1:4
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4 So the law becomes slack,
and justice never prevails.
The wicked surround the righteous;
therefore judgment comes forth perverted.(A)
Deuteronomy 24:17
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17 “You shall not deprive a resident alien or an orphan of justice; you shall not take a widow’s garment in pledge.(A)
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Deuteronomy 10:17
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17 For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who is not partial and takes no bribe,(A)
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Ecclesiastes 7:7
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7 Surely oppression makes the wise foolish,
and a bribe corrupts the heart.(A)
Proverbs 24:23
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Further Sayings of the Wise
23 These also are sayings of the wise:
Partiality in judging is not good.(A)
Deuteronomy 27:19
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19 “ ‘Cursed be anyone who deprives an alien, an orphan, or a widow of justice.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen!’(A)
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Acts 23:3
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3 At this Paul said to him, “God will strike you, you whitewashed wall! Are you sitting there to judge me according to the law, and yet in violation of the law you order me to be struck?”(A)
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Acts 16:37
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37 But Paul replied, “They have beaten us in public, uncondemned, men who are Romans, and have thrown us into prison, and now are they going to discharge us in secret? Certainly not! Let them come and take us out themselves.”(A)
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Acts 10:34
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Gentiles Hear the Good News
34 Then Peter began to speak to them: “I truly understand that God shows no partiality,(A)
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Micah 7:3
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3 Their hands are skilled to do evil;
the official and the judge ask for a bribe,
and the powerful dictate what they desire;
thus they pervert justice.[a](A)
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- 7.3 Cn: Heb they weave it
Isaiah 1:17
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17 learn to do good;
seek justice;
rescue the oppressed;
defend the orphan;
plead for the widow.(A)
Exodus 23:6-8
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6 “You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in their lawsuits.(A) 7 Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent and those in the right, for I will not acquit the guilty.(B) 8 You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds officials and subverts the cause of those who are in the right.(C)
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Ezekiel 22:12
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12 In you, they take bribes to shed blood; you take both advance interest and accrued interest and make gain of your neighbors by extortion, and you have forgotten me, says the Lord God.(A)
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Jeremiah 5:28
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28 they have grown fat and sleek.
They know no limits in deeds of wickedness;
they do not judge with justice
the cause of the orphan, to make it prosper,
and they do not defend the rights of the needy.(A)
Isaiah 33:15
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15 Those who walk righteously and speak uprightly,
who despise the gain of oppression,
who wave away a bribe instead of accepting it,
who stop their ears from hearing of bloodshed
and shut their eyes from looking on evil,
Isaiah 1:23
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23 Your princes are rebels
and companions of thieves.
Everyone loves a bribe
and runs after gifts.
They do not defend the orphan,
and the widow’s cause does not come before them.(A)
Proverbs 24:28
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28 Do not be a witness against your neighbor without cause,
and do not deceive with your lips.(A)
Job 31:21-22
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21 if I have raised my hand against the orphan
because I saw I had supporters at the gate;(A)
22 then let my shoulder blade fall from my shoulder,
and let my arm be broken from its socket.(B)
1 Samuel 12:3
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3 Here I am; testify against me before the Lord and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Or whose donkey have I taken? Or whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Or from whose hand have I taken a bribe to blind my eyes with it? Testify against me,[a] and I will restore it to you.”(A)
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- 12.3 Gk: Heb lacks Testify against me
1 Samuel 8:3
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3 Yet his sons did not follow in his ways but turned aside after gain; they took bribes and perverted justice.(A)
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Deuteronomy 1:16-17
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16 I charged your judges at that time: ‘Give the members of your community a fair hearing and judge rightly between one person and another, whether kin or resident alien.(A) 17 You must not be partial in judging: hear out the small and the great alike; you shall not be intimidated by anyone, for the judgment is God’s. Any case that is too hard for you, bring to me, and I will hear it.’(B)
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