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 terrible, who makes no exception of persons, nor takes a bribe;

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

These things also belong to the wise. It is not good to have respect of persons 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 someone smites the eye of their slave or the eye of their maid that it perishes, he shall let them go free for their eye's sake.

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

Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, neither pleasing the poor, nor favoring the mighty; but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.

And if thou sell anything unto thy neighbour or buy anything of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall not oppress one another.

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

If there is a controversy between persons and they come unto judgment and they are judged, then they shall justify the righteous and condemn the wicked.

Cursed is 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 fenced cities of Judah, city by city,

A wicked man takes a gift in secret to pervert the paths of judgment.

Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and destitute.

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

For there is no respect of persons with God.