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, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward:

Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: 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 a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.

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

Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.

And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest ought 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 slain:

If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.

Cursed be he that taketh reward 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 taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.

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

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

For there is no respect of persons with God.