Leviticus 19:15

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • 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.
  • Deut 16:19 : 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.
  • Exod 23:2-3 : 2 Thou shalt not follow a multitude to [do] evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest [judgment]: 3 Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.
  • Prov 24:23 : 23 ¶ These [things] also [belong] to the wise. [It is] not good to have respect of persons in judgment.
  • Jas 2:6-9 : 6 But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats? 7 Do not they blaspheme that worthy name by the which ye are called? 8 ¶ If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well: 9 But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.
  • 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.
  • Lev 19:35 : 35 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.
  • Deut 25:13-16 : 13 ¶ Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small. 14 Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small. 15 [But] thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. 16 For all that do such things, [and] all that do unrighteously, [are] an abomination unto the LORD thy God.
  • Deut 27:19 : 19 Cursed [be] he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
  • 2 Chr 19:6-7 : 6 And 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. 7 Wherefore 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.
  • Ps 82:2 : 2 How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.
  • Prov 18:5 : 5 ¶ [It is] not good to accept the person of the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment.
  • Exod 18:21 : 21 Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place [such] over them, [to be] rulers of thousands, [and] rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 16:18-20
    3 verses
    85%

    18¶ Judges 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.

    19Thou 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.

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

  • Lev 19:35
    84%

    35Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.

  • Exod 23:6-7
    2 verses
    84%

    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.

  • Deut 1:16-17
    2 verses
    83%

    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.

  • Exod 23:1-3
    3 verses
    81%

    1¶ Thou 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 19:9-14
    6 verses
    81%

    9And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest.

    10And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather [every] grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger: I [am] the LORD your God.

    11¶ Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another.

    12And ye shall not swear by my name falsely, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I [am] the LORD.

    13Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob [him]: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.

    14Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumblingblock before the blind, but shalt fear thy God: I [am] the LORD.

  • Lev 19:16-18
    3 verses
    80%

    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.

    17Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.

    18Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I [am] the LORD.

  • Lev 25:17
    78%

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

  • Deut 24:17
    78%

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

  • 2 Chr 19:6-7
    2 verses
    77%

    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.

  • Prov 18:5
    76%

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

  • Prov 24:23
    76%

    23¶ These [things] also [belong] to the wise. [It is] not good to have respect of persons in judgment.

  • Lev 25:14
    75%

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

  • Deut 24:14
    75%

    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:

  • Deut 19:14
    75%

    14¶ Thou 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.

  • Zech 7:10
    75%

    10And 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.

  • Jer 22:3
    75%

    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.

  • Ps 82:2-3
    2 verses
    74%

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

    3Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.

  • Exod 22:25
    74%

    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.

  • Prov 28:21
    74%

    21¶ To have respect of persons [is] not good: for for a piece of bread [that] man will transgress.

  • Job 34:19
    74%

    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.

  • Jer 7:5-6
    2 verses
    74%

    5For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;

    6[If] ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:

  • Prov 22:22
    74%

    22¶ Rob not the poor, because he [is] poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:

  • Prov 31:9
    73%

    9Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.

  • Ps 72:2
    73%

    2¶ He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment.

  • John 7:24
    73%

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

  • Deut 27:19
    73%

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

  • Lev 19:32-33
    2 verses
    73%

    32Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I [am] the LORD.

    33And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him.

  • Jer 22:16
    73%

    16He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then [it was] well [with him: was] not this to know me? saith the LORD.

  • Zech 8:16
    73%

    16These [are] the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates:

  • Ezek 18:8
    73%

    8He [that] hath not given forth upon usury, neither hath taken any increase, [that] hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity, hath executed true judgment between man and man,

  • Lev 19:37
    72%

    37Therefore shall ye observe all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: I [am] the LORD.

  • 2 Chr 19:10
    72%

    10And what cause soever shall come to you of your brethren that dwell in their cities, between blood and blood, between law and commandment, statutes and judgments, ye shall even warn them that they trespass not against the LORD, and [so] wrath come upon you, and upon your brethren: this do, and ye shall not trespass.