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.

Bible References

Respect

Deuteronomy 1:16
And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the sojourner that is with him.
Deuteronomy 10:17
For Jehovah your God, he is God of gods, and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the terrible, who regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward.
Exodus 23:7
Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.
Proverbs 24:23
These also are'sayings of the wise. To have respect of persons in judgment is not good.
Acts 10:34
And Peter opened his mouth and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons:

General references

Exodus 21:26
And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, and destroy it; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.
Exodus 23:6
Thou shalt not wrest the justice due to thy poor in his cause.
Leviticus 19:15
Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty; but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbor.
Leviticus 25:14
And if thou sell aught unto thy neighbor, or buy of thy neighbor's hand, ye shall not wrong one another.
Deuteronomy 21:2
then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain:
Deuteronomy 25:1
If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, and the judges judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked;
Deuteronomy 27:25
Cursed be he that taketh a bribe to slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen.
2 Chronicles 19:5
And he set judges in the land throughout all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city,
Proverbs 17:23
A wicked man receiveth a bribe out of the bosom, To pervert the ways of justice.
Proverbs 31:9
Open thy mouth, judge righteously, And minister justice to the poor and needy.
John 7:24
Judge not according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.
Romans 2:11
for there is no respect of persons with God.

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