Exodus 23:6

World English Bible (2000)

"You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 23:2-3 : 2 "You shall not follow a crowd to do evil; neither shall you testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice; 3 neither shall you favor a poor man in his cause.
  • 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 16:19 : 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 27:19 : 19 'Cursed is he who wrests the justice [due] to the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'
  • Eccl 5:8 : 8 If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don't marvel at the matter: for one official is eyed by a higher one; and there are officials over them.
  • Isa 10:1-2 : 1 Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees; 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!
  • Jer 5:28 : 28 They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excell in deeds of wickedness. They don't plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don't judge the right of the needy.
  • Mal 3:5 : 5 I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don't fear me," says Yahweh of Armies.
  • Jas 2:5-6 : 5 Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn't God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him? 6 But you have dishonored the poor man. Don't the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?
  • Jer 6:28 : 28 They are all grievous rebels, going about with slanders; they are brass and iron: they all of them deal corruptly.
  • Jer 7:6 : 6 if you don't oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don't shed innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt:
  • Amos 5:11-12 : 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. 12 For I know how many your offenses, and how great are your sins-- you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn aside the needy in the courts.
  • Mic 3:1-4 : 1 I said, "Please listen, you heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: Isn't it for you to know justice? 2 You who hate the good, and love the evil; who tear off their skin, and their flesh from off their bones; 3 who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron. 4 Then they will cry to Yahweh, but he will not answer them. Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time, because they made their deeds evil."
  • Zeph 3:1-4 : 1 Woe to her who is rebellious and polluted, the oppressing city! 2 She didn't obey the voice. She didn't receive correction. She didn't trust in Yahweh. She didn't draw near to her God. 3 Her princes in the midst of her are roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing until the next day. 4 Her prophets are arrogant and treacherous people. Her priests have profaned the sanctuary. They have done violence to the law.
  • 2 Chr 19:7 : 7 Now therefore let the fear of Yahweh be on you. Take heed and do it: for there is no iniquity with Yahweh our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of bribes."
  • Job 31:13 : 13 "If I have despised the cause of my male servant or of my female servant, when they contended with me;
  • Job 31:21-22 : 21 if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate, 22 then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from the bone.
  • Ps 82:3-4 : 3 "Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed. 4 Rescue the weak and needy. Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked."

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 23:1-3
    3 verses
    87%

    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;

    3neither shall you favor a poor man in his cause.

  • Lev 19:15
    84%

    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 24:17
    82%

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

  • Deut 16:18-20
    3 verses
    81%

    18You shall make judges and officers in all your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

    19You 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.

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

  • Prov 22:22-23
    2 verses
    79%

    22Don't exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don't crush the needy in court;

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

  • Prov 31:9
    78%

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

  • Deut 24:14-15
    2 verses
    78%

    14You 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:

    15in 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.

  • Ps 82:3-4
    2 verses
    77%

    3"Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.

    4Rescue the weak and needy. Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked."

  • Isa 10:2
    77%

    2to 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!

  • Exod 22:25
    77%

    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.

  • Exod 23:7-8
    2 verses
    76%

    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.

  • Deut 1:17
    75%

    17You 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.

  • Deut 27:19
    75%

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

  • Exod 23:5
    75%

    5If 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.

  • Lev 19:35
    75%

    35"'You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity.

  • Zech 7:10
    75%

    10Don'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.'

  • Ps 72:2
    75%

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

  • Jas 2:6
    75%

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

  • Prov 29:7
    75%

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

  • Prov 18:5
    74%

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

  • Jer 22:16
    74%

    16He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Wasn't this to know me? says Yahweh.

  • Jer 7:6
    74%

    6if you don't oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don't shed innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt:

  • Prov 22:16
    74%

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

  • Exod 22:22
    74%

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

  • Deut 24:12
    74%

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

  • Lev 19:10
    74%

    10You shall not glean your vineyard, neither shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the poor and for the foreigner. I am Yahweh your God.

  • 2 Chr 19:6
    74%

    6and said to the judges, "Consider what you do: for you don't judge for man, but for Yahweh; and [he is] with you in the judgment.

  • Prov 14:31
    74%

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

  • Amos 5:11
    74%

    11Forasmuch 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.

  • Job 36:6
    74%

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

  • Lev 25:14
    74%

    14"'If you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another.

  • Prov 24:23
    73%

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

  • Deut 25:1
    73%

    1If there be a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, and [the judges] judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked;

  • Jer 22:3
    73%

    3Thus says Yahweh: Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the foreigner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.

  • Deut 15:7
    73%

    7If 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;

  • Deut 22:4
    73%

    4You shall not see your brother's donkey or his ox fallen down by the way, and hide yourself from them: you shall surely help him to lift them up again.

  • Deut 15:9
    73%

    9Beware that there not be a base thought in your heart, saying, "The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand;" and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.

  • Deut 15:11
    73%

    11For 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.

  • Eccl 5:8
    73%

    8If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don't marvel at the matter: for one official is eyed by a higher one; and there are officials over them.

  • Lev 25:17
    73%

    17You shall not wrong one another; but you shall fear your God: for I am Yahweh your God.

  • Isa 3:14
    73%

    14Yahweh will enter into judgment with the elders of his people, and their leaders: "It is you who have eaten up the vineyard. The spoil of the poor is in your houses.

  • Prov 28:3
    73%

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