Deuteronomy 16:19

Appointing Judges And Officials

¹⁸ Judges and scribes shall thou give to thee in all thy gates which Jehovah thy God gave to thee according to thy tribes: and they judged the people just judgment ¹⁹ Thou shalt not turn away Judgment; thou shalt not look upon and thou shalt not take a gift, for the gift will blind the eyes of the wise and will pervert the words of the just. ²⁰ Justice, justice shalt thou follow, so that thou live and inherit the land which Jehovah thy God gave to thee.

Bribe Blinds the Eyes

Pervert Justice

Show Partiality

Turn Aside

Wise Man

Wise Men

Be Partial

Show Favoritism

Wrest Judgment

Exodus 23:2

Thou shalt not be after multitudes for evil; thou shalt not answer for the multitude to stretch out after multitudes to pervert justice.

Leviticus 19:15

Ye shall not do evil in judgment; thou shalt not take up the face of the poor; thou shalt not reverence the face of the great: in justice shalt thou judge thy neighbor.

Ecclesiastes 7:7

For oppression will make foolish the wise one; and a gift will destroy the heart.

Exodus 23:6-8

Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of thy needy in his cause.

Deuteronomy 10:17

For Jehovah your God, he is God of gods, and Lord of lords; the great, the strong, and the fearful God, who will not lift up faces, and will not take a gift.

Deuteronomy 24:17

Thou shalt not turn away the judgment of the stranger, the fatherless; and thou shalt not take as a pledge the garment of the widow.

Deuteronomy 27:19

Cursing he turning away the judgment of the stranger, the orphan and the widow: and all the people said, Amen.

Proverbs 17:23

The unjust one will take a gift from the bosom to turn, aside the paths of judgment

Proverbs 24:23

Also these to the wise. To look upon the face in judgment is not good.

Deuteronomy 1:16-17

And I shall command your judges in that time, saying, Hear between your brethren, and judge justice between a man and between his brother and between his stranger.

1 Samuel 8:3

And his sons went not in his way, and they will incline after plunder, and they will take a gift, and they will turn away from judgment.

1 Samuel 12:3

Behold me: answer against me before Jehovah and before his Messiah, whose ox did I take? or whose ass did I take? and whom did I oppress? whom did I vex? and from whose hand did I take a ransom and hidden mine eyes with it? and I will turn back to you.

Job 31:21-22

If I lifted up my hand against the orphan when I shall see, my help in the gate:

Proverbs 24:28

Thou shalt not be a witness gratuitously against thy neighbor, and deceive not with thy lips.

Isaiah 1:17

Learn to do good; seek out judgment, lead right the oppressor, judge the orphan, contend for the widow.

Isaiah 1:23

Thy chiefs turning away, and associates of thieves: every one loving a gift and following recompenses: the orphan they will not judge, and the cause of the widow will not come to them.

Isaiah 33:15

He going in justice and speaking uprightness, rejecting in the plunder of oppression; shaking his hands from holding upon a gift, shutting his ear from the hearing of bloods, and binding up his eyes from looking upon evil;

Jeremiah 5:28

They became fat, they shone: they passed over words of evil: they judged not judgment, the judgment of the orphan, and they will give success; and the judgment of the needy they judged not.

Ezekiel 22:12

They took a gift in thee to pour out blood; thou tookest usury and interest, and thou wilt plunder thy neighbors by violence, and thou didst forget me, says the Lord Jehovah.

Micah 7:3

For doing evil with the hands to do well, the chief asking, and the judge, for peace; and the great one, he spake the mischief of his soul: and they will entangle it

Habakkuk 1:4

For this, the law will be slack, and judgment will not go forth forever: for the unjust surrounds the just; for this perverted judgment will go forth.

Zephaniah 3:3-5

Her chiefs in the midst of her are roaring lions; her judges evening wolves; they laid not up for the morning.

Acts 10:34

And Peter having opened the month; said, Of a truth I comprehend that God is no respecter of faces!

Acts 16:37

But Paul said to them, Having stripped us publicly not condemned, being Roman men, they cast into prison and now do they cast us out secretly? not so; but having come themselves, let them bring us out.

Acts 23:3

Then said Paul to him, God is about to strike thee, thou wall covered with dust: and sittest thou judging me according to law, and commanded me to be struck illegally?