Exodus 23:2

Regulations Regarding Justice

¹ "You shall not spread a false report. Do not join your hand with the wicked to be an unjust witness. ² You shall not follow a crowd to do evil; neither shall you testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice; ³ neither shall you favor a poor man in his cause.

Bear Witness

Pervert Justice

Turn Aside

Testify Concerning

Wrest Judgment

Exodus 23:6-7

"You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.

Leviticus 19:15

"'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.

Deuteronomy 1:17

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."

Genesis 6:12

God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.

Genesis 7:1

The LORD said to Noah, "Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.

Genesis 19:4

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.

Genesis 19:7-9

He said, "Please, my brothers, do not act so wickedly.

Exodus 32:1-5

When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron, and said to him, "Come, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him."

Numbers 14:1-10

All the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.

Deuteronomy 16:19

You shall not wrest justice: you shall not respect persons; neither shall you take a bribe; for a bribe does blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.

Deuteronomy 24:17

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

Joshua 24:15

If it seems evil to you to serve the LORD, choose this day 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 the LORD."

1 Samuel 15:9

But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the cattle, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and wouldn't utterly destroy them: but everything that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.

1 Kings 19:10

He said, "I have been very jealous for the LORD, the God of Hosts; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and slain your prophets with the sword. I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away."

Job 31:34

because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and did not go out of the door?

Psalm 72:2

He will judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice.

Proverbs 1:10-11

My son, if sinners entice you, do not consent.

Proverbs 1:15

My son, do not walk in the way with them. Keep your foot from their path,

Proverbs 4:14

Do not enter into the path of the wicked. Do not walk in the way of evil men.

Jeremiah 37:15

And the officials were angry with Jeremiah, and struck him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe; for they had made that the prison.

Jeremiah 37:21

Then Zedekiah the king commanded, and they committed Jeremiah into the court of the guard; and they gave him daily a loaf of bread out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city was spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.

Jeremiah 38:5-6

Zedekiah the king said, "Behold, he is in your hand; for the king is not he who can do anything against you."

Jeremiah 38:9

"My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is likely to die in the place where he is, because of the famine; for there is no more bread in the city."

Ezekiel 9:9

Then he said to me, "The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perversion: for they say, 'The LORD has forsaken the land, and the LORD doesn't see.'

Haggai 1:4

"Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies waste?

Matthew 27:24-26

So when Pilate saw that nothing was being gained, but rather that a disturbance was starting, he took water, and washed his hands before the crowd, saying, "I am innocent of the blood of this man. You see to it."

Mark 15:15

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

Luke 23:23-24

But they were urgent with loud voices, asking that he might be crucified. And their voices prevailed.

Luke 23:51

(he had not consented to their counsel and deed), from Arimathaea, a city of the Judeans, who was also waiting for the Kingdom of God:

John 7:50-51

Nicodemus (he who came to him before, being one of them) said to them,

Acts 24:27

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.

Acts 25:9

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?"

Romans 1:32

who, knowing the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice them.

Galatians 2:11-13

But when Cephas came to Antioch, I resisted him to his face, because he stood condemned.