Exodus 23:3

KJV1611 – Modern English

Nor shall you show favoritism to a poor man in his dispute.

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  • Lev 19:15 : 15 You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: you shall not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty: but in righteousness you shall judge your neighbor.
  • Deut 1:17 : 17 You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small as well as the great; you shall not be afraid of anyone, for the judgment is God's. The case that is too difficult for you, bring to me, and I will hear it.
  • Ps 82:2-3 : 2 How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Selah. 3 Defend the poor and fatherless; do justice to the afflicted and needy.
  • Jas 3:17 : 17 But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 23:5-8
    4 verses
    87%

    5If you see the donkey of someone who hates you lying under its burden and you would refrain from helping it, you shall surely help him with it.

    6You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in his dispute.

    7Keep far from a false matter, and do not kill the innocent and righteous, for I will not acquit the wicked.

    8And you shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds the discerning and perverts the words of the righteous.

  • Lev 19:14-15
    2 verses
    81%

    14You shall not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling block before the blind, but shall fear your God: I am the LORD.

    15You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: you shall not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty: but in righteousness you shall judge your neighbor.

  • Exod 23:1-2
    2 verses
    79%

    1You shall not spread a false report; do not join hands with the wicked to be a dishonest witness.

    2You shall not follow a crowd to do evil; nor shall you testify in a dispute so as to pervert justice by following the majority.

  • Deut 16:19
    76%

    19You shall not pervert justice; you shall not show partiality, nor take a bribe: for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise, and perverts the words of the righteous.

  • Deut 24:17
    76%

    17You shall not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's clothing as a pledge:

  • Prov 22:22-23
    2 verses
    75%

    22Do not rob the poor because he is poor, neither oppress the afflicted in the gate;

    23For the LORD will plead their cause and plunder the soul of those who plunder them.

  • Prov 18:5
    74%

    5It is not good to show partiality to the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment.

  • Prov 24:23
    74%

    23These sayings also belong to the wise: It is not good to show partiality in judgment.

  • Deut 1:17
    74%

    17You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small as well as the great; you shall not be afraid of anyone, for the judgment is God's. The case that is too difficult for you, bring to me, and I will hear it.

  • Ps 82:3
    73%

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

  • Exod 22:25
    73%

    25If you lend money to any of my people who are poor among you, you shall not be like a moneylender to him; you shall not charge him interest.

  • Jas 2:6
    73%

    6But you have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and haul you into the courts?

  • Job 34:19
    73%

    19How much less to Him who does not respect the persons of princes nor regard the rich more than the poor? For they all are the work of His hands.

  • Deut 24:14-15
    2 verses
    73%

    14You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is of your brethren or of the strangers that are in your land within your gates:

    15You shall give him his wages on the same day, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and sets his heart upon it: lest he cry against you to the LORD, and it be sin to you.

  • Prov 31:9
    73%

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

  • Deut 24:12
    73%

    12And if the man is poor, you shall not sleep with his pledge:

  • Prov 28:21
    72%

    21To show partiality is not good; for a piece of bread that man will transgress.

  • Lam 3:35-36
    2 verses
    72%

    35To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most High,

    36To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord does not approve.

  • Prov 14:31
    72%

    31He who oppresses the poor reproaches his Maker, but he who honors Him has mercy on the poor.

  • Prov 3:30-31
    2 verses
    72%

    30Do not strive with a man without cause, if he has done you no harm.

    31Do not envy the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.

  • Prov 28:3
    72%

    3A poor man who oppresses the poor is like a sweeping rain that leaves no food.

  • Zech 7:10
    72%

    10And do not oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you plot evil against his brother in your heart.

  • Prov 29:7
    71%

    7The righteous consider the cause of the poor; but the wicked do not understand to know it.

  • Prov 22:16
    71%

    16He who oppresses the poor to increase his riches, and he who gives to the rich, shall surely come to want.

  • Deut 15:7
    71%

    7If there is among you a poor man of one of your brothers within any of your gates in your land which the LORD your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart nor shut your hand from your poor brother.

  • Prov 25:6
    71%

    6Do not exalt yourself in the presence of the king, and do not stand in the place of great men;

  • Deut 13:8
    71%

    8You shall not consent to him, nor listen to him; neither shall your eye pity him, neither shall you spare him, neither shall you conceal him:

  • Exod 22:22
    70%

    22You shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child.

  • Jas 2:3
    70%

    3and you pay attention to the one wearing fine clothes and say to him, Sit here in a good place, and say to the poor, Stand there, or sit here under my footstool,

  • Isa 10:2
    70%

    2To turn aside the needy from justice and to take away the rights from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!

  • Prov 18:23
    70%

    23The poor use entreaties, but the rich answer roughly.

  • Deut 27:19
    70%

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

  • Job 13:10
    70%

    10He will surely reprove you, if you secretly show partiality.

  • Prov 23:10
    70%

    10Do not remove the ancient landmark, and do not enter the fields of the fatherless:

  • Job 36:6
    70%

    6He does not preserve the life of the wicked, but gives justice to the poor.

  • Luke 18:2
    70%

    2Saying, There was in a city a judge who did not fear God, nor regard man:

  • Prov 30:10
    70%

    10Do not accuse a servant to his master, lest he curse you, and you be found guilty.

  • Prov 14:20
    70%

    20The poor is hated even by his own neighbor, but the rich have many friends.

  • Amos 5:11
    70%

    11Since you tread upon the poor, and you take from him burdens of wheat: you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink wine of them.

  • Deut 15:11
    70%

    11For the poor will never cease out of the land; therefore I command you, saying, you shall open your hand wide to your brother, to your poor, and to your needy, in your land.

  • Prov 28:27
    70%

    27He who gives to the poor shall not lack, but he who hides his eyes will have many curses.