Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Accuse not a servant unto his master, lest he curse thee, and thou be found guilty.
Accuse not
Bible References
Accuse not
Proverbs 24:23 These sayings also belong to the wise:
It is not good to show partiality in judgment.
Deuteronomy 23:15
“Do not return a slave to his master when he has escaped from his master to you.
1 Samuel 22:9
Then Doeg the Edomite, who was in charge of Saul’s servants, answered: “I saw Jesse’s son come to Ahimelech son of Ahitub at Nob.
1 Samuel 24:9
David said to Saul, “Why do you listen to the words of people who say, ‘Look, David intends to harm you’?
1 Samuel 26:19
Now, may my lord the king please hear the words of his servant: If it is the Lord who has incited you against me, then may He accept an offering. But if it is people, may they be cursed in the presence of the Lord, for today they have driven me away from sharing in the inheritance of the Lord saying, ‘Go and worship other gods.’
1 Samuel 30:15
David then asked him, “Will you lead me to these raiders?”
He said, “Swear to me by God that you won’t kill me or turn me over to my master, and I will lead you to them.”
He said, “Swear to me by God that you won’t kill me or turn me over to my master, and I will lead you to them.”
2 Samuel 16:1
When David had gone a little beyond the summit, Ziba, Mephibosheth’s servant, was right there to meet him. He had a pair of saddled donkeys loaded with 200 loaves of bread, 100 clusters of raisins, 100 bunches of summer fruit, and a skin of wine.
2 Samuel 19:26
“My lord the king,” he replied, “my servant Ziba betrayed me. Actually your servant said: ‘I’ll saddle the donkey for myself so that I may ride it and go with the king’—for your servant is lame.
Daniel 3:8
Some Chaldeans took this occasion to come forward and maliciously accuse the Jews.
Daniel 6:13
Then they replied to the king, “Daniel, one of the Judean exiles, has ignored you, the king, and the edict you signed, for he prays three times a day.”
Romans 14:4
Who are you to criticize another’s household slave? Before his own Lord he stands or falls. And he will stand. For the Lord is able to make him stand.
Lest
Proverbs 11:26 People will curse anyone who hoards grain,
but a blessing will come to the one who sells it.
but a blessing will come to the one who sells it.
Proverbs 24:24 Whoever says to the guilty, “You are innocent”—
people will curse him, and tribes will denounce him;
people will curse him,
Proverbs 28:27 The one who gives to the poor
will not be in need,
but one who turns his eyes away
will receive many curses.
will not be in need,
but one who turns his eyes away
will receive many curses.
Deuteronomy 15:9
Be careful that there isn’t this wicked thought in your heart, ‘The seventh year, the year of canceling debts, is near,’ and you are stingy toward your poor brother and give him nothing. He will cry out to the Lord against you, and you will be guilty.
2 Chronicles 24:22
King Joash didn’t remember the kindness that Zechariah’s father Jehoiada had extended to him, but killed his son. While he was dying, he said, “May the Lord see and demand an account.”