Exodus 23:2

Regulations Regarding Justice

¹ Thou shalt not accept a vain tale, neither shalt put thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness. ² Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil: neither answer in a matter of plea that thou wouldest, to follow many, turn aside from the truth; ³ neither shalt thou paint a poor man's cause.

Bear Witness

Pervert Justice

Turn Aside

Testify Concerning

Wrest Judgment

Exodus 23:6-7

Thou shalt not hinder the right of the poor that are among you in their suit.

Leviticus 19:15

Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment. Thou shalt not favour the poor nor honour the mighty, but shalt judge thy neighbour righteously.

Deuteronomy 1:17

See that ye know no man in judgment: but hear the small as well as the great and be afraid of no man, for the judgment is God's. And the cause that is too hard for you, bring unto me and I will hear it.'

Genesis 6:12

And God looked upon the earth, and lo it was corrupt: for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.

Genesis 7:1

And the LORD said unto Noah, "Go into the ark both thou and all thy household. For thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.

Genesis 19:4

But before they went to rest, the men of the city of Sodom compassed the house round about both old and young, all the people from all quarters.

Genesis 19:7-9

and said, "Nay. For God's sake, brethren, do not so wickedly.

Exodus 32:1-5

And when the people saw that it was long or Moses came down out of the mountain, they gathered themselves together and came unto Aaron and said unto him, "Up, and make us a god to go before us: for of this Moses, the fellow that brought us out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become."

Numbers 14:1-10

And the multitude cried out, and the people wept throughout that night,

Deuteronomy 16:19

Wrest not the law, nor know any person, neither take any reward: for gifts blind the wise and pervert the words of the righteous.

Deuteronomy 24:17

Hinder not the right of the stranger nor of the fatherless, nor take widow's raiment to pledge.

Joshua 24:15

But if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, then choose you this day, whom you will serve: whether the gods which your fathers served, that were on the other side of the water, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land, ye dwelt. As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD."

1 Samuel 15:9

But Saul and the people spared Agag, and they left of the sheep and of the oxen and fat things and the lambs and all that was good, and would not destroy them. But all that was nought worth and flaggy, that they destroyed utterly.

1 Kings 19:10

And he answered, "I have been thorough angry for the LORD God of Hosts' sake. For the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, and have broken down thine altars and slain the Prophets with the sword, and I only am left, and they seek my soul to have it too."

Job 31:34

For if I had feared any great multitude of people, or if I had been despised of the simple; Oh then should I have been afraid. Thus have I quietly spent my life, and not gone out at the door.

Psalm 72:2

Then shall he judge thy people according unto right, and defend the poor.

Proverbs 1:10-11

My son, consent not unto sinners,

Proverbs 1:15

My son, walk not thou with them, refrain thy foot from their ways.

Proverbs 4:14

Come not in the path of the ungodly, and walk not in the way of the wicked.

Jeremiah 37:15

Wherefore the princes were angry with Jeremiah, causing him to be beaten, and to be laid in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe. For he was the ruler of the prison.

Jeremiah 37:21

Then Zedekiah the king commanded to put Jeremiah in the fore entry of the prison, and daily to be given him a cake of bread of the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city was eaten up. Thus Jeremiah remained in the fore entry of the prison.

Jeremiah 38:5-6

Zedekiah the king answered and said, "Lo, he is in your hands, for the king may deny you nothing."

Jeremiah 38:9

"My lord the king, whereas these men meddle with Jeremiah the prophet, they do him wrong: Namely, in that they have put him in prison, there to die of hunger for there is no more bread in the city."

Ezekiel 9:9

Then said he unto me, "The wickedness of the house of Israel and Judah is very great: so that the land is full of blood, and the city full of unfaithfulness. For they say, 'Tush, the LORD regardeth not the earth, he seeth us not.'

Haggai 1:4

"Ye yourselves can find time to dwell in sealed houses: and shall this house lie waste?

Matthew 27:24-26

When Pilate saw that he prevailed nothing, but that more business was made, he took water and washed his hands before the people saying, "I am innocent of the blood of this righteous person: see ye thereto."

Mark 15:15

And so Pilate, willing to content the people, loosed them Barabbas; And delivered Jesus, when he had scourged him, for to be crucified.

Luke 23:23-24

And they cried with loud voice, and required that he might be crucified. And the voice of them and of the high priests prevailed.

Luke 23:51

and did not consent to the counsel and deed of them; which was of Arimathaea, a city of the Jews. Which same also, waited for the kingdom of God.

John 7:50-51

Nicodemus said unto them - He that came to Jesus by night and was one of them -

Acts 24:27

But after two years came Festus Porcius into Felix's room: and Felix, willing to show the Jews a pleasure, left Paul in prison bound.

Acts 25:9

Festus, willing to do the Jews a pleasure, answered Paul, and said, "Wilt thou go to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these things before me?"

Romans 1:32

Which men, though they knew the righteousness of God, how that they which such things commit are worthy of death: yet not only do the same, but also have pleasure in them that do them.

Galatians 2:11-13

And when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him in the face, for he was worthy to be blamed.