Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.
Bible References
Respect
Deuteronomy 1:16
“Then I charged your judges at that time, saying, ‘Hear the cases between your fellow countrymen, and judge righteously between a man and his fellow countryman, or the alien who is with him.
Deuteronomy 10:17 For the Lord your God is the God of gods and the Lord of lords, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God who does not show partiality nor take a bribe.
Exodus 23:7 Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent or the righteous, for I will not acquit the guilty.
Proverbs 24:23 These also are sayings of the wise.
Toshow partiality in judgment is not good.
To
Acts 10:34 Opening his mouth, Peter said: “I most certainly understand now that God is not one to show partiality,
General references
Exodus 21:26
“If a man strikes the eye of his male or female slave, and destroys it, he shall let him go free on account of his eye.
Exodus 23:6
“You shall not pervert the justice due to your needy brother in his dispute.
Leviticus 19:15
‘You shall do no injustice in judgment; you shall not be partial to the poor nor defer to the great, but you are to judge your neighbor fairly.
Leviticus 25:14
If you make a sale, moreover, to your friend or buy from your friend’s hand, you shall not wrong one another.
Deuteronomy 21:2
then your elders and your judges shall go out and measure the distance to the cities which are around the slain one.
Deuteronomy 25:1
“If there is a dispute between men and they go to court, and the judges decide their case, and they justify the righteous and condemn the wicked,
Deuteronomy 27:25
‘Cursed is he who accepts a bribe to strike down an innocent person.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
2 Chronicles 19:5
He appointed judges in the land in all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city.
Proverbs 17:23 A wicked man receives a bribe from the bosom
Topervert the ways of justice.
To
Proverbs 31:9 Open your mouth, judge righteously,
Anddefend the rights of the afflicted and needy.
And
John 7:24 Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment.”
Romans 2:11
For there is no partiality with God.