Exodus 23:2

Regulations Regarding Justice

¹ 'Thou dost not lift up a vain report; thou dost not put thy hand with a wicked man to be a violent witness. ² Thou art not after many to evil, nor dost thou testify concerning a strife, to turn aside after many to cause others to turn aside; ³ and a poor man thou dost not honour in his strife.

Bear Witness

Pervert Justice

Turn Aside

Testify Concerning

Wrest Judgment

Exodus 23:6-7

'Thou dost not turn aside the judgment of thy needy one in his strife;

Leviticus 19:15

'Ye do not do perversity in judgment; thou dost not lift up the face of the poor, nor honour the face of the great; in righteousness thou dost judge thy fellow.

Deuteronomy 1:17

ye do not discern faces in judgment; as the little so the great ye do hear; ye are not afraid of the face of any, for the judgment is God's, and the thing which is too hard for you, ye bring near unto me, and I have heard it;

Genesis 6:12

And God seeth the earth, and lo, it hath been corrupted, for all flesh hath corrupted its way on the earth.

Genesis 7:1

And Jehovah saith to Noah, 'Come in, thou and all thy house, unto the ark, for thee I have seen righteous before Me in this generation;

Genesis 19:4

Before they lie down, the men of the city -- men of Sodom -- have come round about against the house, from young even unto aged, all the people from the extremity;

Genesis 19:7-9

and saith, 'Do not, I pray you, my brethren, do evil;

Exodus 32:1-5

And the people see that Moses is delaying to come down from the mount, and the people assemble against Aaron, and say unto him, 'Rise, make for us gods who go before us, for this Moses -- the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt -- we have not known what hath happened to him.'

Numbers 14:1-10

And all the company lifteth up and give forth their voice, and the people weep during that night;

Deuteronomy 16:19

Thou dost not turn aside judgment; thou dost not discern faces, nor take a bribe, for the bribe blindeth the eyes of the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

Deuteronomy 24:17

'Thou dost not turn aside the judgment of a fatherless sojourner, nor take in pledge the garment of a widow;

Joshua 24:15

and if wrong in your eyes to serve Jehovah -- choose for you to-day whom ye do serve; -- whether the gods whom your fathers served, which are beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorite in whose land ye are dwelling; and I and my house -- we serve Jehovah.'

1 Samuel 15:9

and Saul hath pity -- also the people -- on Agag, and on the best of the flock, and of the herd, and of the seconds, and on the lambs, and on all that is good, and have not been willing to devote them; and all the work, despised and wasted -- it they devoted.

1 Kings 19:10

And he saith, 'I have been very zealous for Jehovah, God of Hosts, for the sons of Israel have forsaken Thy covenant -- Thine altars they have thrown down, and Thy prophets they have slain by the sword, and I am left, I, by myself, and they seek my life -- to take it.'

Job 31:34

Because I fear a great multitude, And the contempt of families doth affright me, Then I am silent, I go not out of the opening.

Psalm 72:2

He judgeth Thy people with righteousness, And Thy poor with judgment.

Proverbs 1:10-11

My son, if sinners entice thee be not willing.

Proverbs 1:15

My son! go not in the way with them, Withhold thy foot from their path,

Proverbs 4:14

Into the path of the wicked enter not, And be not happy in a way of evil doers.

Jeremiah 37:15

and the heads are wroth against Jeremiah, and have smitten him, and put him in the prison-house -- the house of Jonathan the scribe, for it they had made for a prison-house.

Jeremiah 37:21

And the king Zedekiah commandeth, and they commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, also to give to him a cake of bread daily from the bakers' street, till the consumption of all the bread of the city, and Jeremiah dwelleth in the court of the prison.

Jeremiah 38:5-6

And the king Zedekiah saith, 'Lo, he is in your hand: for the king is not able for you in anything.'

Jeremiah 38:9

My lord, O king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the pit, and he dieth in his place because of the famine, for there is no more bread in the city.'

Ezekiel 9:9

And He saith unto me, 'The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is very very great, and the land is full of blood, and the city hath been full of perverseness, for they have said: Jehovah hath forsaken the land, and Jehovah is not seeing.

Haggai 1:4

Is it time for you -- you! To dwell in your covered houses, And this house to lie waste?

Matthew 27:24-26

And Pilate having seen that it profiteth nothing, but rather a tumult is made, having taken water, he did wash the hands before the multitude, saying, 'I am innocent from the blood of this righteous one; ye -- ye shall see;'

Mark 15:15

and Pilate, wishing to content the multitude, released to them Barabbas, and delivered up Jesus -- having scourged him -- that he might be crucified.

Luke 23:23-24

And they were pressing with loud voices asking him to be crucified, and their voices, and those of the chief priests, were prevailing,

Luke 23:51

-- he was not consenting to their counsel and deed -- from Arimathea, a city of the Jews, who also himself was expecting the reign of God,

John 7:50-51

Nicodemus saith unto them -- he who came by night unto him -- being one of them,

Acts 24:27

and two years having been fulfilled, Felix received a successor, Porcius Festus; Felix also willing to lay a favour on the Jews, left Paul bound.

Acts 25:9

And Festus willing to lay on the Jews a favour, answering Paul, said, 'Art thou willing, to Jerusalem having gone up, there concerning these things to be judged before me?'

Romans 1:32

who the righteous judgment of God having known -- that those practising such things are worthy of death -- not only do them, but also have delight with those practising them.

Galatians 2:11-13

And when Peter came to Antioch, to the face I stood up against him, because he was blameworthy,