Deuteronomy 16:19

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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 commanded your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and him also that sojourneth with him.

For Jehovah your God is the God of gods, and the Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty and the terrible, who regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward;

Thou shalt keep far from the cause of falsehood; and the innocent and righteous slay not; for I will not justify the wicked.

These things also come from the wise. It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment.

And Peter opening his mouth said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons,

General references

And if a man strike the eye of his bondman or the eye of his handmaid, and it be marred, he shall let him go for his eye.

Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of thy poor in his cause.

Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment; thou shalt not respect the person of the lowly, nor honour the person of the great; in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.

And if ye sell ought unto your neighbour, or buy of your neighbour's hand, ye shall not overreach one another.

then thine elders and thy judges shall go forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain;

If there be a controversy between men, and they resort to judgment, and they judge their case; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.

Cursed be he that taketh reward to smite mortally shedding innocent blood! And all the people shall say, Amen.

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

A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom, to pervert the paths of judgment.

Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and minister justice to the afflicted and needy.

Judge not according to sight, but judge righteous judgment.

for there is no acceptance of persons with God.