Exodus 23:3

World English Bible (2000)

neither shall you favor a poor man in his cause.

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Referenced Verses

  • Lev 19:15 : 15 "'You shall do no injustice in judgment: you shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness.
  • Deut 1:17 : 17 You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike; you shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, you shall 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 weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.
  • Jas 3:17 : 17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

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    5 If you see the donkey of him who hates you fallen down under his burden, don't leave him, you shall surely help him with it.

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    7 "Keep far from a false charge, and don't kill the innocent and righteous: for I will not justify the wicked.

    8 "You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have sight and perverts the words of the righteous.

  • Lev 19:14-15
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    14 "'You shall not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling block before the blind; but you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.

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  • Exod 23:1-2
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    1 "You shall not spread a false report. Don't join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.

    2 "You shall not follow a crowd to do evil; neither shall you testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice;

  • Deut 16:19
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    19 You shall not wrest justice: you shall not respect persons; neither shall you take a bribe; for a bribe does blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.

  • Deut 24:17
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    17 You shall not wrest the justice [due] to the foreigner, [or] to the fatherless, nor take the widow's clothing to pledge;

  • Prov 22:22-23
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    22 Don't exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don't crush the needy in court;

    23 for Yahweh will plead their case, and plunder the life of those who plunder them.

  • Prov 18:5
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    5 To be partial to the faces of the wicked is not good, nor to deprive the innocent of justice.

  • Prov 24:23
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    23 These also are sayings of the wise. To show partiality in judgment is not good.

  • Deut 1:17
    74%

    17 You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike; you shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.

  • Ps 82:3
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    3 "Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.

  • Exod 22:25
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    25 "If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor; neither shall you charge him interest.

  • Jas 2:6
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    6 But you have dishonored the poor man. Don't the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?

  • Job 34:19
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    19 Who doesn't respect the persons of princes, nor respects the rich more than the poor; for they all are the work of his hands.

  • Deut 24:14-15
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    14 You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he be of your brothers, or of your foreigners who are in your land within your gates:

    15 in his day you shall give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down on it; for he is poor, and sets his heart on it: lest he cry against you to Yahweh, and it be sin to you.

  • Prov 31:9
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    9 Open your mouth, judge righteously, and serve justice to the poor and needy."

  • Deut 24:12
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    12 If he be a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge;

  • Prov 28:21
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    21 To show partiality is not good; yet a man will do wrong for a piece of bread.

  • Lam 3:35-36
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    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 doesn't approve.

  • Prov 14:31
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    31 He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.

  • Prov 3:30-31
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    30 Don't strive with a man without cause, if he has done you no harm.

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  • Prov 28:3
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    3 A needy man who oppresses the poor is like a driving rain which leaves no crops.

  • Zech 7:10
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    10 Don't oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.'

  • Prov 29:7
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    7 The righteous care about justice for the poor. The wicked aren't concerned about knowledge.

  • Prov 22:16
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    16 Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.

  • Deut 15:7
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    7 If a poor man, one of your brothers, is with you within any of your gates in your land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother;

  • Prov 25:6
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    6 Don't exalt yourself in the presence of the king, or claim a place among great men;

  • Deut 13:8
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    8 you shall not consent to him, nor listen to him; neither shall your eye pity him, neither shall you spare, neither shall you conceal him:

  • Exod 22:22
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    22 "You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.

  • Jas 2:3
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    3 and you pay special attention to him who wears the fine clothing, and say, "Sit here in a good place;" and you tell the poor man, "Stand there," or "Sit by my footstool;"

  • Isa 10:2
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    2 to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

  • Prov 18:23
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    23 The poor plead for mercy, but the rich answer harshly.

  • Deut 27:19
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    19 'Cursed is he who wrests the justice [due] to the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'

  • Job 13:10
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    10 He will surely reprove you if you secretly show partiality.

  • Prov 23:10
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    10 Don't move the ancient boundary stone. Don't encroach on the fields of the fatherless:

  • Job 36:6
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    6 He doesn't preserve the life of the wicked, but gives to the afflicted their right.

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    2 saying, "There was a judge in a certain city who didn't fear God, and didn't respect man.

  • Prov 30:10
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    10 "Don't slander a servant to his master, lest he curse you, and you be held guilty.

  • Prov 14:20
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    20 The poor person is shunned even by his own neighbor, but the rich person has many friends.

  • Amos 5:11
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    11 Forasmuch therefore as you trample on the poor, and take taxes from him of wheat: You have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.

  • Deut 15:11
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    11 For the poor will never cease out of the land: therefore I command you, saying, You shall surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.

  • Prov 28:27
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    27 One who gives to the poor has no lack; but one who closes his eyes will have many curses.