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
"You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in his lawsuit.
Leviticus 19:15
"You shall do no injustice in court. You shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.
Deuteronomy 1:17
You shall not be partial in judgment. You shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be intimidated by anyone, for the judgment is God's. And the case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.'
Psalm 72:2
May he judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice!
Jeremiah 37:15
And the officials were enraged at Jeremiah, and they beat him and imprisoned him in the house of Jonathan the secretary, for it had been made a prison.
Jeremiah 38:5
King Zedekiah said, "Behold, he is in your hands, for the king can do nothing against you."
Ezekiel 9:9
Then he said to me, "The guilt of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great. The land is full of blood, and the city full of injustice. For they say, 'The LORD has forsaken the land, and the LORD does not see.'
Haggai 1:4
"Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?
General references
Exodus 23:6
"You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in his lawsuit.
Leviticus 19:15
"You shall do no injustice in court. You shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.
Deuteronomy 27:19
"'Cursed be anyone who perverts the justice due to the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
Job 13:8
Will you show partiality toward him? Will you plead the case for God?