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

I furthermore admonished your judges at that time that they should pay attention to issues among your fellow citizens and judge fairly, whether between one citizen and another or a citizen and a resident foreigner.

For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, mighty, and awesome God who is unbiased and takes no bribe,

Keep your distance from a false charge -- do not kill the innocent and the righteous, for I will not justify the wicked.

These sayings also are from the wise: To show partiality in judgment is terrible:

Then Peter started speaking: "I now truly understand that God does not show favoritism in dealing with people,

General references

"If a man strikes the eye of his male servant or his female servant so that he destroys it, he will let the servant go free as compensation for the eye.

"You must not turn away justice for your poor people in their lawsuits.

"'You must not deal unjustly in judgment: you must neither show partiality to the poor nor honor the rich. You must judge your fellow citizen fairly.

If you make a sale to your fellow citizen or buy from your fellow citizen, no one is to wrong his brother.

your elders and judges must go out and measure how far it is to the cities in the vicinity of the corpse.

If controversy arises between people, they should go to court for judgment. When the judges hear the case, they shall exonerate the innocent but condemn the guilty.

Cursed is the one who takes a bribe to kill an innocent person.' Then all the people will say, 'Amen!'

He appointed judges throughout the land and in each of the fortified cities of Judah.

A wicked person receives a bribe secretly to pervert the ways of justice.

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

Do not judge according to external appearance, but judge with proper judgment."

For there is no partiality with God.