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

For Jehovah your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, the mighty, and a terrible God, who does not respect persons nor take a bribe.

Keep far from a false matter, and do not kill the innocent and righteous. For I will not justify the wicked.

These also are for the wise: To have respect of persons in judgment is not good.

Then Peter opened his mouth and said, Truly I see that God is no respecter of persons;

General references

And if a man strike the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, so that it perishes, he shall let him go free on account of his eye.

You shall not pervert the judgment of your poor in his cause.

You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment. You shall not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty; but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness.

And if you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy from your neighbor's hand, you shall not oppress one another.

then your elders and your judges shall come forth. And they shall measure to the cities which are around him who is dead.

If there is a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, and they have been judged, and the righteous one is declared righteous, and the wrongdoer declared guilty,

Cursed is he who takes reward to kill an innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen.

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

A wicked man takes a bribe out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.

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

Do not judge according to sight, but judge righteous judgment.

For there is no respect of faces with God.