Deuteronomy 16:19

King James Version 1611 (Original)

Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.

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  • Exod 23:2 : 2 Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:
  • Lev 19:15 : 15 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.
  • Eccl 7:7 : 7 Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart.
  • Exod 23:6-8 : 6 Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause. 7 Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked. 8 And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.
  • Deut 10:17 : 17 For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward:
  • Deut 24:17 : 17 Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:
  • Deut 27:19 : 19 Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
  • Prov 17:23 : 23 A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.
  • Prov 24:23 : 23 These things also belong to the wise. It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment.
  • Prov 24:28 : 28 Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy lips.
  • 1 Sam 8:3 : 3 And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.
  • 1 Sam 12:3 : 3 Behold, here I am: witness against me before the LORD, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of whose hand have I received any bribe to blind mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it you.
  • Job 31:21-22 : 21 If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate: 22 Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.
  • Deut 1:16-17 : 16 And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him. 17 Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it.
  • Isa 1:17 : 17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
  • Isa 1:23 : 23 Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
  • Isa 33:15 : 15 He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;
  • Jer 5:28 : 28 They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
  • Ezek 22:12 : 12 In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD.
  • Mic 7:3 : 3 That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.
  • Hab 1:4 : 4 Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.
  • Zeph 3:3-5 : 3 Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow. 4 Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law. 5 The just LORD is in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity: every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame.
  • Acts 10:34 : 34 Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons:
  • Acts 16:37 : 37 But Paul said unto them, They have beaten us openly uncondemned, being Romans, and have cast us into prison; and now do they thrust us out privily? nay verily; but let them come themselves and fetch us out.
  • Acts 23:3 : 3 Then said Paul unto him, God shall smite thee, thou whited wall: for sittest thou to judge me after the law, and commandest me to be smitten contrary to the law?

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  • Exod 23:6-8
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    6Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.

    7Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.

    8And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

  • Lev 19:14-16
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    14Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumblingblock before the blind, but shalt fear thy God: I am the LORD.

    15Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.

    16Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I am the LORD.

  • Deut 16:20
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    20That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

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    18Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.

  • Deut 1:16-17
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    16And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him.

    17Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it.

  • 2 Chr 19:6-7
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    6And said to the judges, Take heed what ye do: for ye judge not for man, but for the LORD, who is with you in the judgment.

    7Wherefore now let the fear of the LORD be upon you; take heed and do it: for there is no iniquity with the LORD our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of gifts.

  • Deut 24:17
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    17Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:

  • Prov 24:23
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    23These things also belong to the wise. It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment.

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    5It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment.

  • Exod 23:1-3
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    1Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

    2Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:

    3Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.

  • Lev 19:35
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    35Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.

  • Prov 28:21
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    21To have respect of persons is not good: for for a piece of bread that man will transgress.

  • Prov 17:23
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    23A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.

  • Deut 17:9-11
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    9And thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days, and enquire; and they shall shew thee the sentence of judgment:

    10And thou shalt do according to the sentence, which they of that place which the LORD shall choose shall shew thee; and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they inform thee:

    11According to the sentence of the law which they shall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do: thou shalt not decline from the sentence which they shall shew thee, to the right hand, nor to the left.

  • Deut 19:14
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    14Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.

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    24Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.

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    19Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.

  • Isa 1:23
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    23Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.

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    4The king by judgment establisheth the land: but he that receiveth gifts overthroweth it.

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    2How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.

  • Job 34:19
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    19How much less to him that accepteth not the persons of princes, nor regardeth the rich more than the poor? for they all are the work of his hands.

  • Deut 25:1
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    1If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.

  • Lev 19:11
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    11Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another.

  • Lev 25:17
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    17Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God: for I am the LORD your God.

  • Deut 19:18
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    18And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and hath testified falsely against his brother;

  • Jas 2:9
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    9But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.

  • Deut 25:13-16
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    13Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.

    14Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small.

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    16For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the LORD thy God.

  • Prov 22:22
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    22Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:

  • Matt 7:1
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    1Judge not, that ye be not judged.

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    14And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest ought of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall not oppress one another:

  • Exod 21:1
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    1Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.

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    4Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts?

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    5Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.

  • Isa 33:15
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    15He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;

  • Deut 24:14
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    14Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates:

  • Jer 22:3
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    3Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.