Exodus 23:3
Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.
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Referenced Verses
- 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.
- Deut 1:17 : 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.
- Ps 82:2-3 : 2 How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah. 3 Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
- Jas 3:17 : 17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, [and] easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
Similar Verses (AI)
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- Exod 23:5-84 verses87%
5 If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him.
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.
- Lev 19:14-152 verses81%
14 Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumblingblock before the blind, but shalt fear thy God: I [am] the LORD.
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.
- Exod 23:1-22 verses79%
1 ¶ Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
2 Thou shalt not follow a multitude to [do] evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest [judgment]:
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19 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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17 Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, [nor] of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:
- Prov 22:22-232 verses75%
22 ¶ Rob not the poor, because he [is] poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
23 For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.
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5 ¶ [It is] not good to accept the person of the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment.
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23 ¶ These [things] also [belong] to the wise. [It is] not good to have respect of persons in judgment.
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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.
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3 Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
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25 ¶ If thou lend money to [any of] my people [that is] poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.
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6 But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?
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19 [How 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 24:14-152 verses73%
14 ¶ Thou 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:
15 At his day thou shalt give [him] his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he [is] poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto the LORD, and it be sin unto thee.
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9 Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.
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12 And if the man [be] poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:
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21 ¶ To have respect of persons [is] not good: for for a piece of bread [that] man will transgress.
- Lam 3:35-362 verses72%
35 To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,
36 To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.
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31 ¶ He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.
- Prov 3:30-312 verses72%
30 Strive not with a man without cause, if he have done thee no harm.
31 Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.
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3 ¶ A poor man that oppresseth the poor [is like] a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.
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10 And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.
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7 ¶ The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: [but] the wicked regardeth not to know [it].
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16 ¶ He that oppresseth the poor to increase his [riches, and] he that giveth to the rich, [shall] surely [come] to want.
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7 If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother:
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6 ¶ Put not forth thyself in the presence of the king, and stand not in the place of great [men]:
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8 Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him:
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22 Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
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3 And ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing, and say unto him, Sit thou here in a good place; and say to the poor, Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool:
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2 To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and [that] they may rob the fatherless!
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23 ¶ The poor useth intreaties; but the rich answereth roughly.
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19 Cursed [be] he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
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10 He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
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10 ¶ Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
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6 He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to the poor.
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2 Saying, ‹There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man:›
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10 ¶ Accuse not a servant unto his master, lest he curse thee, and thou be found guilty.
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20 ¶ The poor is hated even of his own neighbour: but the rich [hath] many friends.
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11 Forasmuch therefore as your treading [is] upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.
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11 For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.
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27 ¶ He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack: but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse.