Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:
To decline
General references
Bible References
To decline
Exodus 23:6
Thou shalt not pervert the rights of thy poor in his cause.
Leviticus 19:15
Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, neither pleasing the poor, nor favoring the mighty; but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.
Deuteronomy 1:17
Ye shall not respect persons in judgment, but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is God's; and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it.
Psalm 72:2
He shall judge thy people with righteousness and thy poor with judgment.
Jeremiah 37:15
Therefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah and smote him and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe; for they had made that the prison.
Jeremiah 38:5
Then Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your hand, for the king can not do any thing against you.
Ezekiel 9:9
Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness, for they have said, The LORD has forsaken the earth, and the LORD does not see.
Haggai 1:4
Do you have time, all of you, to dwell in your panelled houses, and this house is deserted?
General references
Exodus 23:6
Thou shalt not pervert the rights of thy poor in his cause.
Leviticus 19:15
Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, neither pleasing the poor, nor favoring the mighty; but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.
Deuteronomy 27:19
Cursed is he that twists the rights of the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Job 13:8
Are ye to bring honour unto him? Are ye to contend for God?