Proverbs 18:5

How Fools Live

⁴ Deep waters are the words of a man's mouth, The fountain of wisdom is a flowing brook. ⁵ Acceptance of the face of the wicked is not good, To turn aside the righteous in judgment. ⁶ The lips of a fool enter into strife, And his mouth for stripes calleth.

Righteous Man

Show Partiality

Turn Aside

Be Partial

Leviticus 19:15

'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.

Proverbs 24:23

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

Proverbs 28:21

To discern faces is not good, And for a piece of bread doth a man transgress.

Deuteronomy 16:19

Thou dost not turn aside judgment; thou dost not discern faces, nor take a bribe, for the bribe blindeth the eyes of the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

Psalm 82:2

Till when do ye judge perversely? And the face of the wicked lift up? Selah.

Proverbs 17:15

Whoso is justifying the wicked, And condemning the righteous, Even both of these are an abomination to Jehovah.

Deuteronomy 1:16-17

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;

1 Kings 21:9-14

and she writeth in the letters, saying, 'Proclaim a fast, and cause Naboth to sit at the head of the people,

Job 13:7-8

For God do ye speak perverseness? And for Him do ye speak deceit?

Job 34:19

That hath not accepted the person of princes, Nor hath known the rich before the poor, For a work of His hands are all of them.

Isaiah 5:23

Declaring righteous the wicked for a bribe, And the righteousness of the righteous They turn aside from him.

Isaiah 59:14

And removed backward is judgment, And righteousness afar off standeth, For truth hath been feeble in the street, And straightforwardness is not able to enter,

Micah 7:3

On the evil are both hands to do it well, The prince is asking -- also the judge -- for recompence, And the great -- he is speaking the mischief of his soul, And they wrap it up.

Matthew 22:16

and they send to him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, 'Teacher, we have known that thou art true, and the way of God in truth thou dost teach, and thou art not caring for any one, for thou dost not look to the face of men;