Leviticus 19:15
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15 (A)“You shall do no injustice in court. You shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.
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Deuteronomy 1:17
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17 (A)You shall not be partial in judgment. You shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be intimidated by anyone, for (B)the judgment is God's. And the case that is too hard for you, you shall (C)bring to me, and I will hear it.’
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Proverbs 24:23
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More Sayings of the Wise
23 These also are sayings of (A)the wise.
(B)Partiality in judging is not good.
Deuteronomy 27:19
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19 (A)“‘Cursed be anyone who perverts the justice due to the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
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Leviticus 19:35
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35 (A)“You shall do no wrong in judgment, in measures of length or weight or quantity.
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Exodus 23:6-8
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6 (A)“You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in his lawsuit. 7 (B)Keep far from a false charge, and (C)do not kill the innocent and righteous, for (D)I will not acquit the wicked. 8 (E)And you shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and subverts the cause of those who are in the right.
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Exodus 23:2-3
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2 You shall not fall in with the many to do evil, nor shall you bear witness in a lawsuit, siding with the many, so as to pervert justice, 3 (A)nor shall you be partial to a poor man in his lawsuit.
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James 2:6-9
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6 But you (A)have dishonored the poor man. Are not the rich the ones who oppress you, and the ones who (B)drag you (C)into court? 7 Are they not the ones who blaspheme the honorable (D)name by which you were called?
8 If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, (E)“You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well. 9 But if you (F)show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.
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Proverbs 18:5
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Footnotes
- Proverbs 18:5 Hebrew to lift the face of
Psalm 82:2
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Deuteronomy 25:13-16
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13 “You (A)shall not have in your bag two kinds of weights, a large and a small. 14 You shall not have in your house two kinds of measures, a large and a small. 15 A full and fair[a] weight you shall have, a full and fair measure you shall have, (B)that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you. 16 For (C)all who do such things, all who act dishonestly, (D)are an abomination to the Lord your God.
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- Deuteronomy 25:15 Or just, or righteous; twice in this verse
Deuteronomy 16:19
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19 (A)You shall not pervert justice. (B)You shall not show partiality, (C)and you shall not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and subverts the cause of the righteous.
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2 Chronicles 19:6-7
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6 and said to the judges, “Consider what you do, (A)for you judge not for man but for the Lord. He is with you in giving judgment. 7 Now then, let the fear of the Lord be upon you. Be careful what you do, for (B)there is no injustice with the Lord our God, (C)or partiality or taking bribes.”
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