Leviticus 19:15

World English Bible (2000)

"'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.

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Referenced Verses

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Prov 24:23 : 23 These also are sayings of the wise. To show partiality in judgment is not good.
  • Jas 2:6-9 : 6 But you have dishonored the poor man. Don't the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts? 7 Don't they blaspheme the honorable name by which you are called? 8 However, 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, being convicted by the law as transgressors.
  • Exod 23:6-8 : 6 "You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits. 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 19:35 : 35 "'You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity.
  • Deut 25:13-16 : 13 You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, a great and a small. 14 You shall not have in your house diverse measures, a great and a small. 15 You shall have a perfect and just weight. You shall have a perfect and just measure, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you. 16 For all who do such things, [even] all who do unrighteously, are an abomination to Yahweh your God.
  • Deut 27:19 : 19 'Cursed is he who wrests the justice [due] to the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'
  • 2 Chr 19:6-7 : 6 and 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. 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."
  • Ps 82:2 : 2 "How long will you judge unjustly, and show partiality to the wicked?" Selah.
  • Prov 18:5 : 5 To be partial to the faces of the wicked is not good, nor to deprive the innocent of justice.
  • Exod 18:21 : 21 Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such 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%

    18 You 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.

    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.

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

  • Lev 19:35
    84%

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

  • Exod 23:6-7
    2 verses
    84%

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

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

  • Deut 1:16-17
    2 verses
    83%

    16 I commanded your judges at that time, saying, Hear [the causes] between your brothers, and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the foreigner who is living with him.

    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.

  • Exod 23:1-3
    3 verses
    81%

    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;

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

  • Lev 19:9-14
    6 verses
    81%

    9 "'When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corners of your field, neither shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest.

    10 You 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.

    11 "'You shall not steal. "'You shall not lie. "'You shall not deceive one another.

    12 "'You shall not swear by my name falsely, and profane the name of your God. I am Yahweh.

    13 "'You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. "'The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.

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

  • Lev 19:16-18
    3 verses
    80%

    16 "'You shall not go up and down as a slanderer among your people. "'You shall not endanger the life of your neighbor. I am Yahweh.

    17 "'You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.

    18 "'You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.

  • Lev 25:17
    78%

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

  • Deut 24:17
    78%

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

  • 2 Chr 19:6-7
    2 verses
    77%

    6 and 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.

    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."

  • Prov 18:5
    76%

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

  • Prov 24:23
    76%

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

  • Lev 25:14
    75%

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

  • Deut 24:14
    75%

    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:

  • Deut 19:14
    75%

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

  • Zech 7:10
    75%

    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.'

  • Jer 22:3
    75%

    3 Thus 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.

  • Ps 82:2-3
    2 verses
    74%

    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.

  • Exod 22:25
    74%

    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.

  • Prov 28:21
    74%

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

  • Job 34:19
    74%

    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.

  • Jer 7:5-6
    2 verses
    74%

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

    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:

  • Prov 22:22
    74%

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

  • Prov 31:9
    73%

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

  • Ps 72:2
    73%

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

  • John 7:24
    73%

    24 Don't judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment."

  • Deut 27:19
    73%

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

  • Lev 19:32-33
    2 verses
    73%

    32 "'You shall rise up before the gray head, and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.

    33 "'If a stranger lives as a foreigner with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong.

  • Jer 22:16
    73%

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

  • Zech 8:16
    73%

    16 These are the things that you shall do: speak every man the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates,

  • Ezek 18:8
    73%

    8 he who has not given forth on interest, neither has taken any increase, who has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has executed true justice between man and man,

  • Lev 19:37
    72%

    37 "'You shall observe all my statutes, and all my ordinances, and do them. I am Yahweh.'"

  • 2 Chr 19:10
    72%

    10 Whenever any controversy shall come to you from your brothers who dwell in their cities, between blood and blood, between law and commandment, statutes and ordinances, you shall warn them, that they not be guilty towards Yahweh, and so wrath come on you and on your brothers. Do this, and you shall not be guilty.