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 command your judges at that time, saying, Hearkening between your brethren -- then ye have judged righteousness between a man, and his brother, and his sojourner;

for Jehovah your God -- He is God of the gods, and Lord of the lords; God, the great, the mighty, and the fearful; who accepteth not persons, nor taketh a bribe;

from a false matter thou dost keep far off, and an innocent and righteous man thou dost not slay; for I do not justify a wicked man.

These also are for the wise: -- To discern faces in judgment is not good.

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

General references

'And when a man smiteth the eye of his man-servant, or the eye of his handmaid, and hath destroyed it, as a freeman he doth send him away for his eye;

'Thou dost not turn aside the judgment of thy needy one in his strife;

'Ye do not do perversity in judgment; thou dost not lift up the face of the poor, nor honour the face of the great; in righteousness thou dost judge thy fellow.

'And when thou sellest anything to thy fellow, or buyest from the hand of thy fellow, ye do not oppress one another;

then have thine elders and thy judges gone out and measured unto the cities which are round about the slain one,

'When there is a strife between men, and they have come nigh unto the judgment, and they have judged, and declared righteous the righteous, and declared wrong the wrong-doer,

Cursed is he who is taking a bribe to smite a person, innocent blood, -- and all the people have said, Amen.

And he establisheth judges in the land, in all the fenced cities of Judah, for every city,

A bribe from the bosom the wicked taketh, To turn aside the paths of judgment.

Open thy mouth, judge righteously, Both the cause of the poor and needy!'

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

For there is no acceptance of faces with God,