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 at that time I gave orders to your judges, saying, Let all questions between your brothers come before you for hearing, and give decisions uprightly between a man and his brother or one from another nation who is with him.

For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, strong in power and greatly to be feared, who has no respect for any man's position and takes no rewards:

Keep yourselves far from any false business; never let the upright or him who has done no wrong be put to death: for I will make the evil-doer responsible for his sin.

These are more sayings of the wise: To have respect for a person's position when judging is not good.

Then Peter said, Truly, I see clearly that God is no respecter of persons:

General references

If a man gives his man-servant or his woman-servant a blow in the eye, causing its destruction, he is to let him go free on account of the damage to his eye.

Let no wrong decisions be given in the poor man's cause.

Do no wrong in your judging: do not give thought to the position of the poor, or honour to the position of the great; but be a judge to your neighbour in righteousness.

And in the business of trading goods for money, do no wrong to one another.

Then your responsible men and your judges are to come out, and give orders for the distance from the dead body to the towns round about it to be measured;

If there is an argument between men and they go to law with one another, let the judges give their decision for the upright, and against the wrongdoer.

Cursed is he who for a reward puts to death one who has done no wrong. And let all the people say, So be it.

And he put judges through all the land, in every walled town of Judah,

A sinner takes an offering out of his robe, to get a decision for himself in a cause.

Let your mouth be open, judging rightly, and give right decisions in the cause of the poor and those in need.

Let not your decisions be based on what you see, but on righteousness.

For one man is not different from another before God.