Leviticus 19:15

KJV1611 – Modern English

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.

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  • 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.
  • Deut 16:19 : 19 You 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.
  • Exod 23:2-3 : 2 You shall not follow a crowd to do evil; nor shall you testify in a dispute so as to pervert justice by following the majority. 3 Nor shall you show favoritism to a poor man in his dispute.
  • Prov 24:23 : 23 These sayings also belong to the wise: It is not good to show partiality in judgment.
  • Jas 2:6-9 : 6 But you have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and haul you into the courts? 7 Do they not blaspheme that worthy name by which you are called? 8 If you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, You shall love your neighbor as yourself, you do well. 9 But if you show partiality, you commit sin, and are convicted by the law as transgressors.
  • Exod 23:6-8 : 6 You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in his dispute. 7 Keep far from a false matter, and do not kill the innocent and righteous, for I will not acquit the wicked. 8 And you shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds the discerning and perverts the words of the righteous.
  • Lev 19:35 : 35 You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measuring yard, in weight, or in measure.
  • Deut 25:13-16 : 13 You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a large and a small. 14 You shall not have in your house differing measures, a large and a small. 15 But you shall have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shall you have, that your days may be prolonged in the land which the LORD your God gives you. 16 For all who do such things, and all who act unrighteously, are an abomination to the LORD your God.
  • Deut 27:19 : 19 Cursed be he who perverts the judgment of the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
  • 2 Chr 19:6-7 : 6 And said to the judges, Take heed what you do, for you judge not for man but for the LORD, who is with you in the judgment. 7 Therefore 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 you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Selah.
  • Prov 18:5 : 5 It is not good to show partiality to the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment.
  • Exod 18:21 : 21 Moreover, you shall select from all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place them over them to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 16:18-20
    3 verses
    85%

    18Judges and officers you shall make for yourself in all your gates, which the LORD your God gives you, throughout your tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.

    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.

    20That which is altogether just you shall follow, that you may live, and inherit the land which the LORD your God gives you.

  • Lev 19:35
    84%

    35You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measuring yard, in weight, or in measure.

  • Exod 23:6-7
    2 verses
    84%

    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.

  • Deut 1:16-17
    2 verses
    83%

    16And I commanded your judges at that time, saying, Hear the cases between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger who is with him.

    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.

  • Exod 23:1-3
    3 verses
    81%

    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.

    3Nor shall you show favoritism to a poor man in his dispute.

  • Lev 19:9-14
    6 verses
    81%

    9And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corners of your field, nor shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest.

    10And you shall not glean your vineyard, nor shall you gather every grape of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the poor and stranger: I am the LORD your God.

    11You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another.

    12And you shall not swear by my name falsely, nor shall you profane the name of your God: I am the LORD.

    13You shall not defraud your neighbor, nor rob him: the wages of him that is hired shall not remain with you all night until the morning.

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

  • Lev 19:16-18
    3 verses
    80%

    16You shall not go around as a talebearer among your people; nor shall you stand against the life of your neighbor: I am the LORD.

    17You shall not hate your brother in your heart; you shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not suffer sin upon him.

    18You shall not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the LORD.

  • Lev 25:17
    78%

    17You shall not oppress one another; but you shall fear your God: for I am the LORD your God.

  • Deut 24:17
    78%

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

  • 2 Chr 19:6-7
    2 verses
    77%

    6And said to the judges, Take heed what you do, for you judge not for man but for the LORD, who is with you in the judgment.

    7Therefore 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%

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

  • Prov 24:23
    76%

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

  • Lev 25:14
    75%

    14And if you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy anything of your neighbor's hand, you shall not oppress one another:

  • Deut 24:14
    75%

    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:

  • Deut 19:14
    75%

    14You shall not remove your neighbor's landmark, which the men of old have set in your inheritance, which you shall inherit in the land that the LORD your God gives you to possess.

  • Zech 7:10
    75%

    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.

  • Jer 22:3
    75%

    3Thus says the LORD; Execute judgment and righteousness, and deliver the plundered 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 you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Selah.

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

  • Exod 22:25
    74%

    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.

  • Prov 28:21
    74%

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

  • Job 34:19
    74%

    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.

  • Jer 7:5-6
    2 verses
    74%

    5For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your deeds; if you thoroughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbor;

    6If you do not oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, nor walk after other gods to your harm;

  • Prov 22:22
    74%

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

  • Prov 31:9
    73%

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

  • Ps 72:2
    73%

    2He shall judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice.

  • John 7:24
    73%

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

  • Deut 27:19
    73%

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

  • Lev 19:32-33
    2 verses
    73%

    32You shall rise before the gray-headed, and honor the face of the old man, and fear your God: I am the LORD.

    33And if a stranger sojourns with you in your land, you shall not mistreat 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? says the LORD.

  • Zech 8:16
    73%

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

  • Ezek 18:8
    73%

    8He that has not given out loans with interest, nor taken any increase, that has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has executed true judgment between man and man,

  • Lev 19:37
    72%

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

  • 2 Chr 19:10
    72%

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