Deuteronomy 16:19

Geneva Bible (1560)

Wrest not thou ye Law, nor respect any person, neither take rewarde: for the reward blindeth ye eyes of the wise, & peruerteth ye worde of ye iust.

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  • Exod 23:2 : 2 Thou shalt not followe a multitude to do euil, neither agree in a controuersie to decline after many and ouerthrowe the trueth.
  • Lev 19:15 : 15 Ye shall not doe vniustly in iudgement. Thou shalt not fauour the person of the poore, nor honour the person of the mightie, but thou shalt iudge thy neighbour iustly.
  • Eccl 7:7 : 7 (7:9) Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad: and the rewarde destroyeth the heart.
  • Exod 23:6-8 : 6 Thou shalt not ouerthrowe the right of thy poore in his sute. 7 Thou shalt keepe thee farre fro a false matter, and shalt not slaye the innocent and the righteous: for I will not iustifie a wicked man. 8 Thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and peruerteth the wordes of the righteous.
  • Deut 10:17 : 17 For the Lord your God is God of gods, and Lord of lordes, a great God, mightie and terrible, which accepteth no persons nor taketh reward:
  • Deut 24:17 : 17 Thou shalt not peruert the right of the stranger, nor of the fatherlesse, nor take a widowes rayment to pledge.
  • Deut 27:19 : 19 Cursed be he that hindreth the right of the stranger, the fatherles, and the widow: And all the people shal say: So be it.
  • Prov 17:23 : 23 A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosome to wrest the wayes of iudgement.
  • Prov 24:23 : 23 Also these things perteine to the wise, It is not good to haue respect of any person in iudgement.
  • Prov 24:28 : 28 Be not a witnes against thy neighbour without cause: for wilt thou deceiue with thy lippes?
  • 1 Sam 8:3 : 3 And his sonnes walked not in his wayes, but turned aside after lucre, and tooke rewards, and peruerted the iudgement.
  • 1 Sam 12:3 : 3 Beholde, here I am: beare recorde of me before the Lord & before his Anointed. Whose oxe haue I taken? or whose asse haue I taken? or whome haue I done wrong to? or whome haue I hurt? or of whose hande haue I receiued any bribe, to blinde mine eyes therewith, and I will restore it you?
  • Job 31:21-22 : 21 If I haue lift vp mine hande against the fatherlesse, when I saw that I might helpe him in the gate, 22 Let mine arme fal from my shoulder, & mine arme be broken from the bone.
  • Deut 1:16-17 : 16 And I charged your iudges that same time, saying, Heare the controuersies betweene your brethren, and iudge righteously betwene euery man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him. 17 Ye shal haue no respect of person in iudgement, but shall heare the small aswell as the great: yee shall not feare the face of man: for the iudgemet is Gods: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring vnto me, and I will heare it.
  • Isa 1:17 : 17 Learne to doe well: seeke iudgement, relieue the oppressed: iudge the fatherlesse and defend the widowe.
  • Isa 1:23 : 23 Thy Princes are rebellious and companions of theeues: euery one loueth giftes, and followeth after rewards: they iudge not the fatherlesse, neither doeth the widowes cause come before them.
  • Isa 33:15 : 15 Hee that walketh in iustice, and speaketh righteous things, refusing gaine of oppression, shaking his handes from taking of gifts, stopping his eares from hearing of blood, and shutting his eyes from seeing euill.
  • Jer 5:28 : 28 They are waxen fat and shining: they doe ouerpasse the deedes of the wicked: they execute no iudgement, no not the iudgement of the fatherlesse: yet they prosper, though they execute no iudgement for the poore.
  • Ezek 22:12 : 12 In thee haue they taken giftes to shed blood: thou hast taken vsurie and the encrease, and thou hast defrauded thy neighbours by extortion, & hast forgotten me, saith the Lord God.
  • Mic 7:3 : 3 To make good for the euil of their hands, the prince asked, and the iudge iudgeth for a reward: therefore the great man he speaketh out the corruption of his soule: so they wrapt it vp.
  • Hab 1:4 : 4 Therefore the Lawe is dissolued, and iudgement doeth neuer go forth: for the wicked doeth compasse about the righteous: therefore wrong iudgement proceedeth.
  • Zeph 3:3-5 : 3 Her princes within her are as roaring lyons: her iudges are as wolues in the euening, which leaue not the bones till the morow. 4 Her prophets are light, and wicked persons: her priests haue polluted the Sanctuarie: they haue wrested the Lawe. 5 The iust Lord is in the middes thereof: he will doe none iniquitie: euery morning doeth hee bring his iudgement to light, he faileth not: but the wicked will not learne to be ashamed.
  • Acts 10:34 : 34 Then Peter opened his mouth, and sayd, Of a trueth I perceiue, that God is no accepter of persons.
  • Acts 16:37 : 37 Then sayde Paul vnto them, After that they haue beaten vs openly vncodemned, which are Romanes, they haue cast vs into prison, and nowe would they put vs out priuily? nay verely: but let them come and bring vs out.
  • Acts 23:3 : 3 Then sayd Paul to him, God will smite thee, thou whited wall: for thou sittest to iudge me according to the Lawe, and transgressing the Lawe, commaundest thou me to be smitten?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 23:6-8
    3 verses
    86%

    6Thou shalt not ouerthrowe the right of thy poore in his sute.

    7Thou shalt keepe thee farre fro a false matter, and shalt not slaye the innocent and the righteous: for I will not iustifie a wicked man.

    8Thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and peruerteth the wordes of the righteous.

  • Lev 19:14-16
    3 verses
    85%

    14Thou shalt not curse the deafe, neither put a stumbling blocke before the blinde, but shalt feare thy God: I am the Lord.

    15Ye shall not doe vniustly in iudgement. Thou shalt not fauour the person of the poore, nor honour the person of the mightie, but thou shalt iudge thy neighbour iustly.

    16Thou shalt not walke about with tales among thy people. Thou shalt not stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I am the Lord.

  • Deut 16:20
    82%

    20That which is iust and right shalt thou follow, that thou maiest liue, & possesse the land which the Lord thy God giueth thee.

  • Deut 16:18
    81%

    18Iudges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy cities, which the Lord thy God giueth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall iudge the people with righteous iudgement.

  • Deut 1:16-17
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    81%

    16And I charged your iudges that same time, saying, Heare the controuersies betweene your brethren, and iudge righteously betwene euery man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him.

    17Ye shal haue no respect of person in iudgement, but shall heare the small aswell as the great: yee shall not feare the face of man: for the iudgemet is Gods: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring vnto me, and I will heare it.

  • 2 Chr 19:6-7
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    81%

    6And said to the iudges, Take heede what ye doe: for yee execute not the iudgements of man, but of the Lorde, and he will be with you in the cause and iudgement.

    7Wherefore nowe let the feare of the Lorde be vpon you: take heede, and do it: for there is no iniquitie with the Lord our God, neither respect of persons, nor receiuing of reward.

  • Deut 24:17
    80%

    17Thou shalt not peruert the right of the stranger, nor of the fatherlesse, nor take a widowes rayment to pledge.

  • Prov 24:23
    78%

    23Also these things perteine to the wise, It is not good to haue respect of any person in iudgement.

  • Prov 18:5
    78%

    5It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to cause ye righteous to fall in iudgement.

  • Exod 23:1-3
    3 verses
    76%

    1Thou shalt not receiue a false tale, neyther shalt thou put thine hande with the wicked, to be a false witnes.

    2Thou shalt not followe a multitude to do euil, neither agree in a controuersie to decline after many and ouerthrowe the trueth.

    3Thou shalt not esteeme a poore man in his cause.

  • Lev 19:35
    75%

    35Ye shall not doe vniustly in iudgement, in line, in weight, or in measure.

  • Prov 28:21
    75%

    21To haue respect of persons is not good: for that man will transgresse for a piece of bread.

  • Prov 17:23
    75%

    23A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosome to wrest the wayes of iudgement.

  • Deut 17:9-11
    3 verses
    72%

    9And thou shalt come vnto the Priestes of the Leuites, and vnto the iudge that shall be in those daies, and aske, and they shall shewe thee the sentence of iudgement,

    10And thou shalt do according to that thing which they of that place (which the Lorde hath chosen) shewe thee, and thou shalt obserue to doe according to all that they informe thee.

    11According to the Lawe, which they shall teach thee, & according to the iudgement which they shall tell thee, shalt thou doe: thou shalt not decline from the thing which they shall shew thee, neither to the right hand, nor to the left.

  • Deut 19:14
    72%

    14Thou shalt not remooue thy neighbours marke, which they of olde time haue set in thine inheritance, that thou shalt inherite in the lande, which ye Lorde thy God giueth thee to possesse it.

  • John 7:24
    72%

    24Iudge not according to the appearance, but iudge righteous iudgement.

  • Deut 27:19
    72%

    19Cursed be he that hindreth the right of the stranger, the fatherles, and the widow: And all the people shal say: So be it.

  • Isa 1:23
    71%

    23Thy Princes are rebellious and companions of theeues: euery one loueth giftes, and followeth after rewards: they iudge not the fatherlesse, neither doeth the widowes cause come before them.

  • Prov 29:4
    71%

    4A King by iudgement mainteineth ye countrey: but a man receiuing giftes, destroyeth it.

  • Ps 82:2
    70%

    2How long wil ye iudge vniustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.

  • Job 34:19
    70%

    19How much lesse to him that accepteth not the persons of princes, & regardeth not the rich, more then the poore? for they be all the worke of his handes.

  • Deut 25:1
    70%

    1When there shall be strife betweene men, and they shall come vnto iudgement, and sentence shall be giuen vpon them, and the righteous shall be iustified, and the wicked condemned,

  • Lev 19:11
    70%

    11Ye shall not steale, neither deale falsely, neither lie one to another.

  • Lev 25:17
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    17Oppresse not ye therefore any man his neighbour, but thou shalt feare thy God: for I am the Lorde your God.

  • Deut 19:18
    70%

    18And the Iudges shall make diligent inquisition: and if the witnesse be found false, and hath giuen false witnes against his brother,

  • Jas 2:9
    70%

    9But if yee regarde the persons, yee commit sinne, and are rebuked of the Lawe, as transgressours.

  • Deut 25:13-16
    4 verses
    70%

    13Thou shalt not haue in thy bagge two maner of weightes, a great and a small,

    14Neither shalt thou haue in thine house diuers measures, a great and a small:

    15But thou shalt haue a right & iust weight: a perfite and a iust measure shalt thou haue, that thy dayes may be lengthened in the land, which the Lord thy God giueth thee.

    16For all that doe such things, and all that doe vnrighteously, are abomination vnto the Lord thy God.

  • Prov 22:22
    70%

    22Robbe not the poore, because hee is poore, neither oppresse the afflicted in iudgement.

  • Matt 7:1
    70%

    1Ivdge not, that ye be not iudged.

  • Lev 25:14
    70%

    14And when thou sellest ought to thy neighbour, or byest at thy neighbours hande, ye shall not oppresse one another:

  • Exod 21:1
    70%

    1Now these are the lawes, which thou shalt set before them:

  • Jas 2:4
    70%

    4Are yee not partiall in your selues, and are become iudges of euill thoughts?

  • Prov 31:5
    70%

    5Lest he drinke and forget the decree, and change the iudgement of all the children of affliction.

  • Isa 33:15
    69%

    15Hee that walketh in iustice, and speaketh righteous things, refusing gaine of oppression, shaking his handes from taking of gifts, stopping his eares from hearing of blood, and shutting his eyes from seeing euill.

  • Deut 24:14
    69%

    14Thou shalt not oppresse an hyred seruant that is needie and poore, neyther of thy brethren, nor of the stranger that is in thy land within thy gates.

  • Jer 22:3
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    3Thus saith the Lorde, Execute ye iudgement and righteousnes, and deliuer the oppressed from the hande of the oppressor, and vexe not the stranger, the fatherlesse, nor the widowe: doe no violence, nor sheade innocent blood in this place.