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From the Blue Letter Bible
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Deu 16:19 — 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.
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Deu 24:17 |
Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, [nor] of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge: |
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Deu 27:19 |
Cursed [be] he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen. |
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Exd 23:2 |
Thou shalt not follow a multitude to [do] evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest [judgment]: |
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Exd 23:6 |
Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause. |
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Exd 23:7 |
Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked. |
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Exd 23:8 |
And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous. |
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Lev 19:15 |
Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: [but] in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour. |
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1Sa 8:3 |
And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment. |
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1Sa 12:3 |
Behold, here I [am]: witness against me before the LORD, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of whose hand have I received [any] bribe to blind mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it you. |
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Job 31:21 |
If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate: |
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Job 31:22 |
[Then] let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone. |
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Pro 17:23 |
A wicked [man] taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment. |
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Ecc 7:7 |
Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart. |
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Isa 1:17 |
Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. |
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Isa 1:23 |
Thy princes [are] rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them. |
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Isa 33:15 |
He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil; |
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Jer 5:28 |
They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge. |
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Eze 22:12 |
In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD. |
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Mic 7:3 |
That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge [asketh] for a reward; and the great [man], he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up. |
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Hab 1:4 |
Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth. |
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Zep 3:3 |
Her princes within her [are] roaring lions; her judges [are] evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow. |
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Zep 3:4 |
Her prophets [are] light [and] treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law. |
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Zep 3:5 |
The just LORD [is] in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity: every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame. |
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Act 16:37 |
But Paul said unto them, They have beaten us openly uncondemned, being Romans, and have cast [us] into prison; and now do they thrust us out privily? nay verily; but let them come themselves and fetch us out. |
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Act 23:3 |
Then said Paul unto him, God shall smite thee, [thou] whited wall: for sittest thou to judge me after the law, and commandest me to be smitten contrary to the law? |
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Deu 1:16 |
And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear [the causes] between your brethren, and judge righteously between [every] man and his brother, and the stranger [that is] with him. |
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Deu 1:17 |
Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; [but] ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment [is] God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring [it] unto me, and I will hear it. |
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Deu 10:17 |
For the LORD your God [is] God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward: |
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Exd 23:7 |
Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked. |
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Exd 23:8 |
And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous. |
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Pro 24:23 |
These [things] also [belong] to the wise. [It is] not good to have respect of persons in judgment. |
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Pro 24:28 |
Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive [not] with thy lips. |
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Act 10:34 |
Then Peter opened [his] mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons: |
Cite This Page: (explanation of citations)
Scott, Thomas. "Deuteronomy 16:19," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Deu/16/19.html>.
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