Deuteronomy 16:19

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.

Respect

Acts 10:34

General references

Bible References

Respect

And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him.

For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, mighty, and awesome, who regards not persons, nor takes reward:

Keep far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay you not: for I will not justify the wicked.

These things also belong to the wise. It is not good to have partiality in judgment.

Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons:

General references

And if a man strikes the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.

You shall not pervert the justice of your poor in his dispute.

You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: you shall not be partial to the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.

And if you sell anything unto your neighbor, or buy anything of your neighbor's hand, you shall not oppress one another:

Then your elders and your judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain:

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

Cursed be he that takes a bribe to slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen.

And he set judges in the land throughout all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city,

A wicked man takes a bribe out of the bosom to pervert the ways of justice.

Open your mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.

Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.

For there is no respect of persons with God.