Deuteronomy 16:19

Bible in Basic English (1941)

You are not to be moved in your judging by a man's position, you are not to take rewards; for rewards make the eyes of the wise man blind, and the decisions of the upright false.

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 23:2 : 2 Do not be moved to do wrong by the general opinion, or give the support of your words to a wrong decision:
  • Lev 19:15 : 15 Do no wrong in your judging: do not give thought to the position of the poor, or honour to the position of the great; but be a judge to your neighbour in righteousness.
  • Eccl 7:7 : 7 The wise are troubled by the ways of the cruel, and the giving of money is the destruction of the heart.
  • Exod 23:6-8 : 6 Let no wrong decisions be given in the poor man's cause. 7 Keep yourselves far from any false business; never let the upright or him who has done no wrong be put to death: for I will make the evil-doer responsible for his sin. 8 Take no rewards in a cause: for rewards make blind those who have eyes to see, and make the decisions of the upright false.
  • Deut 10:17 : 17 For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, strong in power and greatly to be feared, who has no respect for any man's position and takes no rewards:
  • Deut 24:17 : 17 Be upright in judging the cause of the man from a strange country and of him who has no father; do not take a widow's clothing on account of a debt:
  • Deut 27:19 : 19 Cursed is he who gives a wrong decision in the cause of a man from a strange land, or of one without a father, or of a widow. And let all the people say, So be it.
  • Prov 17:23 : 23 A sinner takes an offering out of his robe, to get a decision for himself in a cause.
  • Prov 24:23 : 23 These are more sayings of the wise: To have respect for a person's position when judging is not good.
  • Prov 24:28 : 28 Do not be a violent witness against your neighbour, or let your lips say what is false.
  • 1 Sam 8:3 : 3 And his sons did not go in his ways, but moved by the love of money took rewards, and were not upright in judging.
  • 1 Sam 12:3 : 3 Here I am: give witness against me before the Lord and before the man on whom he has put the holy oil: whose ox or ass have I taken? to whom have I been untrue? who has been crushed down by me? from whose hand have I taken a price for the blinding of my eyes? I will give it all back to you.
  • Job 31:21-22 : 21 If my hand had been lifted up against him who had done no wrong, when I saw that I was supported by the judges; 22 May my arm be pulled from my body, and be broken from its base.
  • Deut 1:16-17 : 16 And at that time I gave orders to your judges, saying, Let all questions between your brothers come before you for hearing, and give decisions uprightly between a man and his brother or one from another nation who is with him. 17 In judging, do not let a man's position have any weight with you; give hearing equally to small and great; have no fear of any man, for it is God who is judge: and any cause in which you are not able to give a decision, you are to put before me and I will give it a hearing.
  • Isa 1:17 : 17 Take pleasure in well-doing; let your ways be upright, keep down the cruel, give a right decision for the child who has no father, see to the cause of the widow.
  • Isa 1:23 : 23 Your chiefs have gone against the Lord, they have become friends of thieves; every one of them is looking for profit and going after rewards; they do not give right decisions for the child who has no father, and they do not let the cause of the widow come before them.
  • Isa 33:15 : 15 He whose ways are true, and whose words are upright; he who gives no thought to the profits of false acts, whose hands have not taken rewards, who will have no part in putting men to death, and whose eyes are shut against evil;
  • Jer 5:28 : 28 They have become fat and strong: they have gone far in works of evil: they give no support to the cause of the child without a father, so that they may do well; they do not see that the poor man gets his rights.
  • Ezek 22:12 : 12 In you they have taken rewards as the price of blood; you have taken interest and great profits, and you have taken away your neighbours' goods by force, and have not kept me in mind, says the Lord.
  • Mic 7:3 : 3 Their hands are made ready to do evil; the ruler makes requests for money, and the judge is looking for a reward; and the great man gives decisions at his pleasure, and the right is twisted.
  • Hab 1:4 : 4 For this reason the law is feeble and decisions are not effected: for the upright man is circled round by evil-doers; because of which right is twisted.
  • Zeph 3:3-5 : 3 Her rulers are like loud-voiced lions in her; her judges are wolves of the evening, crushing up the bones before the morning. 4 Her prophets are good-for-nothing persons, full of deceit: her priests have made the holy place unclean and have gone violently against the law. 5 The Lord in her is upright; he will not do evil; every morning he lets his righteousness be seen, he is unchanging; but the evil-doer has no sense of shame.
  • Acts 10:34 : 34 Then Peter said, Truly, I see clearly that God is no respecter of persons:
  • Acts 16:37 : 37 But Paul said to them, They have given us who are Romans a public whipping without judging us, and have put us in prison. Will they now send us out secretly? no, truly, let them come themselves and take us out.
  • Acts 23:3 : 3 Then Paul said to him, God will give blows to you, you whitewashed wall: are you here to be my judge by law, and by your orders am I given blows against the law?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 23:6-8
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    86%

    6Let no wrong decisions be given in the poor man's cause.

    7Keep yourselves far from any false business; never let the upright or him who has done no wrong be put to death: for I will make the evil-doer responsible for his sin.

    8Take no rewards in a cause: for rewards make blind those who have eyes to see, and make the decisions of the upright false.

  • Lev 19:14-16
    3 verses
    85%

    14Do not put a curse on those who have no hearing, or put a cause of falling in the way of the blind, but keep the fear of your God before you: I am the Lord.

    15Do no wrong in your judging: do not give thought to the position of the poor, or honour to the position of the great; but be a judge to your neighbour in righteousness.

    16Do not go about saying untrue things among your people, or take away the life of your neighbour by false witness: I am the Lord.

  • Deut 16:20
    82%

    20Let righteousness be your guide, so that you may have life, and take for your heritage the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

  • Deut 16:18
    81%

    18You are to make judges and overseers in all your towns which the Lord your God gives you, for every tribe: and they are to be upright men, judging the people in righteousness.

  • Deut 1:16-17
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    81%

    16And at that time I gave orders to your judges, saying, Let all questions between your brothers come before you for hearing, and give decisions uprightly between a man and his brother or one from another nation who is with him.

    17In judging, do not let a man's position have any weight with you; give hearing equally to small and great; have no fear of any man, for it is God who is judge: and any cause in which you are not able to give a decision, you are to put before me and I will give it a hearing.

  • 2 Chr 19:6-7
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    6And said to the judges, Take care what you do, for you are judging not for man but for the Lord, and he is with you in the decisions you give.

    7So now let the fear of the Lord be in you; do your work with care; for in the Lord our God there is no evil, or respect for high position, or taking of payment to do wrong.

  • Deut 24:17
    80%

    17Be upright in judging the cause of the man from a strange country and of him who has no father; do not take a widow's clothing on account of a debt:

  • Prov 24:23
    78%

    23These are more sayings of the wise: To have respect for a person's position when judging is not good.

  • Prov 18:5
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    5To have respect for the person of the evil-doer is not good, or to give a wrong decision against the upright.

  • Exod 23:1-3
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    76%

    1Do not let a false statement go further; do not make an agreement with evil-doers to be a false witness.

    2Do not be moved to do wrong by the general opinion, or give the support of your words to a wrong decision:

    3But, on the other hand, do not be turned from what is right in order to give support to a poor man's cause.

  • Lev 19:35
    75%

    35Do not make false decisions in questions of yard-sticks and weights and measures.

  • Prov 28:21
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    21It is not good to have respect for a man's position: for a man will do wrong for a bit of bread.

  • Prov 17:23
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    23A sinner takes an offering out of his robe, to get a decision for himself in a cause.

  • Deut 17:9-11
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    72%

    9And come before the priests, the Levites, or before him who is judge at the time: and they will go into the question and give you a decision:

    10And you are to be guided by the decision they give in the place named by the Lord, and do whatever they say:

    11Acting in agreement with their teaching and the decision they give: not turning to one side or the other from the word they have given you.

  • Deut 19:14
    72%

    14Your neighbour's landmark, which was put in its place by the men of old times, is not to be moved or taken away in the land of your heritage which the Lord your God is giving you.

  • John 7:24
    72%

    24Let not your decisions be based on what you see, but on righteousness.

  • Deut 27:19
    72%

    19Cursed is he who gives a wrong decision in the cause of a man from a strange land, or of one without a father, or of a widow. And let all the people say, So be it.

  • Isa 1:23
    71%

    23Your chiefs have gone against the Lord, they have become friends of thieves; every one of them is looking for profit and going after rewards; they do not give right decisions for the child who has no father, and they do not let the cause of the widow come before them.

  • Prov 29:4
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    4A king, by right rule, makes the land safe; but one full of desires makes it a waste.

  • Ps 82:2
    70%

    2How long will you go on judging falsely, having respect for the persons of evil-doers? (Selah.)

  • Job 34:19
    70%

    19Who has no respect for rulers, and who gives no more attention to those who have wealth than to the poor, for they are all the work of his hands.

  • Deut 25:1
    70%

    1If there is an argument between men and they go to law with one another, let the judges give their decision for the upright, and against the wrongdoer.

  • Lev 19:11
    70%

    11Do not take anyone's property or be false in act or word to another.

  • Lev 25:17
    70%

    17And do no wrong, one to another, but let the fear of your God be before you; for I am the Lord your God.

  • Deut 19:18
    70%

    18And the judges will have the question looked into with care: and if the witness is seen to be false and to have made a false statement against his brother,

  • Jas 2:9
    70%

    9But if you take a man's position into account, you do evil, and are judged as evil-doers by the law.

  • Deut 25:13-16
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    13Do not have in your bag different weights, a great and a small;

    14Or in your house different measures, a great and a small.

    15But have a true weight and a true measure: so that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

    16For all who do such things, and all whose ways are not upright, are disgusting to the Lord your God.

  • Prov 22:22
    70%

    22Do not take away the property of the poor man because he is poor, or be cruel to the crushed ones when they come before the judge:

  • Matt 7:1
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    1Be not judges of others, and you will not be judged.

  • Lev 25:14
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    14And in the business of trading goods for money, do no wrong to one another.

  • Exod 21:1
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    1Now these are the laws which you are to put before them.

  • Jas 2:4
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    4Is there not a division in your minds? have you not become judges with evil thoughts?

  • Prov 31:5
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    5For fear that through drinking they may come to have no respect for the law, wrongly judging the cause of those who are in trouble.

  • Isa 33:15
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    15He whose ways are true, and whose words are upright; he who gives no thought to the profits of false acts, whose hands have not taken rewards, who will have no part in putting men to death, and whose eyes are shut against evil;

  • Deut 24:14
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    14Do not be hard on a servant who is poor and in need, if he is one of your countrymen or a man from another nation living with you in your land.

  • Jer 22:3
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    3This is what the Lord has said: Do what is right, judging uprightly, and make free from the hands of the cruel one him whose goods have been violently taken away: do no wrong and be not violent to the man from a strange country and the child without a father and the widow, and let not those who have done no wrong be put to death in this place.