Exodus 23:2

Exodus 23:2
Do not be moved to do wrong by the general opinion, or give the support of your words to a wrong decision:

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Exodus 23:3
But, on the other hand, do not be turned from what is right in order to give support to a poor man's cause.

Exodus 23:4
If you come across the ox or the ass of one who is no friend to you wandering from its way, you are to take it back to him.

Exodus 23:5
If you see the ass of one who has no love for you bent down to the earth under the weight which is put on it, you are to come to its help, even against your desire.

Exodus 23:6
Let no wrong decisions be given in the poor man's cause.

Exodus 23:7
Keep yourselves far from any false business; never let the upright or him who has done no wrong be put to death: for I will make the evil-doer responsible for his sin.

Exodus 23:8
Take no rewards in a cause: for rewards make blind those who have eyes to see, and make the decisions of the upright false.

Exodus 23:9
Do not be hard on the man from a strange country who is living among you; for you have had experience of the feelings of one who is far from the land of his birth, because you yourselves were living in Egypt, in a strange land.

Leviticus 19:15
Do no wrong in your judging: do not give thought to the position of the poor, or honour to the position of the great; but be a judge to your neighbour in righteousness.

Deuteronomy 16:19
You are not to be moved in your judging by a man's position, you are not to take rewards; for rewards make the eyes of the wise man blind, and the decisions of the upright false.

Deuteronomy 27:19
Cursed is he who gives a wrong decision in the cause of a man from a strange land, or of one without a father, or of a widow. And let all the people say, So be it.

Exodus 18:21
But for the rest, take from among the people able men, such as have the fear of God, true men hating profits wrongly made; and put such men over them, to be captains of thousands, captains of hundreds and of fifties and of tens;

Deuteronomy 1:16
And at that time I gave orders to your judges, saying, Let all questions between your brothers come before you for hearing, and give decisions uprightly between a man and his brother or one from another nation who is with him.

Deuteronomy 1:17
In judging, do not let a man's position have any weight with you; give hearing equally to small and great; have no fear of any man, for it is God who is judge: and any cause in which you are not able to give a decision, you are to put before me and I will give it a hearing.

1 Samuel 8:3
And his sons did not go in his ways, but moved by the love of money took rewards, and were not upright in judging.

2 Samuel 23:3
The God of Israel said, the word of the Rock of Israel came to me: When an upright king is ruling over men, when he is ruling in the fear of God,

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Exodus 23:1
Do not let a false statement go further; do not make an agreement with evil-doers to be a false witness.

2 Chronicles 19:6
And said to the judges, Take care what you do, for you are judging not for man but for the Lord, and he is with you in the decisions you give.

2 Chronicles 19:7
So now let the fear of the Lord be in you; do your work with care; for in the Lord our God there is no evil, or respect for high position, or taking of payment to do wrong.

2 Chronicles 19:8
Then in Jerusalem he gave authority to certain of the Levites and the priests and the heads of families of Israel to give decisions for the Lord, and in the causes of those living in Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 19:9
And he gave them their orders, saying, You are to do your work in the fear of the Lord, in good faith and with a true heart.

2 Chronicles 19:10
And if any cause comes before you from your brothers living in their towns, where the death punishment is in question, or where there are questions of law or order, or rules or decisions, make them take care that they are not in the wrong before the Lord, so that wrath may not come on you and on your brothers; do this and you yourselves will not be in the wrong.

Proverbs 24:23
These are more sayings of the wise: To have respect for a person's position when judging is not good.

Isaiah 1:23
Your chiefs have gone against the Lord, they have become friends of thieves; every one of them is looking for profit and going after rewards; they do not give right decisions for the child who has no father, and they do not let the cause of the widow come before them.

Leviticus 19:16
Do not go about saying untrue things among your people, or take away the life of your neighbour by false witness: I am the Lord.

Deuteronomy 19:15
One witness may not make a statement against a man in relation to any sin or wrongdoing which he has done: on the word of two or three witnesses a question is to be judged.

Psalms 82:2
How long will you go on judging falsely, having respect for the persons of evil-doers? (Selah.)

Proverbs 18:5
To have respect for the person of the evil-doer is not good, or to give a wrong decision against the upright.

Ezekiel 22:12
In you they have taken rewards as the price of blood; you have taken interest and great profits, and you have taken away your neighbours' goods by force, and have not kept me in mind, says the Lord.

John 7:24
Let not your decisions be based on what you see, but on righteousness.

Acts 23:3
Then Paul said to him, God will give blows to you, you whitewashed wall: are you here to be my judge by law, and by your orders am I given blows against the law?

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Psalms 1:1
Happy is the man who does not go in the company of sinners, or take his place in the way of evil-doers, or in the seat of those who do not give honour to the Lord.

Exodus 23:33
Let them not go on living in your land, or they will make you do evil against me: for if you give worship to their gods, it will certainly be a cause of sin to you.

Exodus 34:12
But take care, and do not make any agreement with the people of the land where you are going, for it will be a cause of sin to you.

Proverbs 1:15
My son, do not go with them; keep your feet from their ways:

Proverbs 4:14
Do not go in the road of sinners, or be walking in the way of evil men.

Proverbs 22:24
Do not be friends with a man who is given to wrath; do not go in the company of an angry man:

Proverbs 23:6
Do not take the food of him who has an evil eye, or have any desire for his delicate meat:

Proverbs 24:1
Have no envy for evil men, or any desire to be with them:

1 Corinthians 5:9
In my letter I said to you that you were not to keep company with those who go after the desires of the flesh;

1 Corinthians 5:11
But the sense of my letter was that if a brother had the name of being one who went after the desires of the flesh, or had the desire for other people's property, or was in the way of using violent language, or being the worse for drink, or took by force what was not his, you might not keep company with such a one, or take food with him.

2 Corinthians 6:14
Do not keep company with those who have not faith: for what is there in common between righteousness and evil, or between light and dark?

2 John 1:10
If anyone comes to you not having this teaching, do not take him into your house or give him words of love:

Jeremiah 41:1
Now it came about in the seventh month that Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the king's seed, having with him ten men, came to Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, in Mizpah; and they had a meal together in Mizpah.

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Proverbs 29:25
The fear of man is a cause of danger: but whoever puts his faith in the Lord will have a safe place on high.

Job 31:34
For fear of the great body of people, or for fear that families might make sport of me, so that I kept quiet, and did not go out of my door;

Luke 23:20
And Pilate again said to them that it was his desire to let Jesus go free.

Luke 23:21
But crying out they said, To the cross with him!

Luke 23:22
And he said to them a third time, Why, what evil has he done? I see no reason for putting him to death: I will give him punishment and let him go.

Luke 23:23
But they went on crying out loudly, Let him be put to death on the cross. And they had their way.

Luke 23:24
And Pilate gave his decision for their desire to be put into effect.

Luke 23:25
And in answer to their request, he let that man go free who had been in prison for acting against the government and causing death, and Jesus he gave up to their pleasure.

1 Samuel 15:24
And Saul said to Samuel, Great is my sin: for I have gone against the orders of the Lord and against your words: because, fearing the people, I did what they said.

Isaiah 51:12
I, even I, am your comforter: are you so poor in heart as to be in fear of man who will come to an end, and of the son of man who will be like grass?

Jeremiah 38:5
Then Zedekiah the king said, See, he is in your hands: for the king was not able to do anything against them.

Matthew 27:23
And he said, Why, what evil has he done? But they gave loud cries, saying, To the cross with him!

Acts 24:27
But after two years Porcius Festus took the place of Felix, who, desiring to have the approval of the Jews, kept Paul in chains.

Acts 25:9
But Festus, desiring to get the approval of the Jews, said to Paul, Will you go up to Jerusalem, and be judged before me there in connection with these things?

Revelation 21:8
But those who are full of fear and without faith, the unclean and takers of life, those who do the sins of the flesh, and those who make use of evil powers or who give worship to images, and all those who are false, will have their part in the sea of ever-burning fire which is the second death.

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2 Kings 17:15
And they went against his rules, and the agreement which he made with their fathers, and his laws which he gave them; they gave themselves up to things without sense or value, and became foolish like the nations round them, of whom the Lord had said, Do not as they do.

Deuteronomy 12:30
After their destruction take care that you do not go in their ways, and that you do not give thought to their gods, saying, How did these nations give worship to their gods? I will do as they did.

1 Samuel 8:19
But the people gave no attention to the voice of Samuel; and they said, No, but we will have a king over us,

1 Samuel 8:20
So that we may be like the other nations, and so that our king may be our judge and go out before us to war.

Matthew 23:2
The scribes and the Pharisees have the authority of Moses;

Matthew 23:3
All things, then, which they give you orders to do, these do and keep: but do not take their works as your example, for they say and do not.

Leviticus 18:29
For all those who do any of these disgusting things will be cut off from among their people.

Leviticus 18:30
So then, keep my orders, so that you may not do any of these disgusting things which were done before you, or make yourselves unclean through them: I am the Lord your God.

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Proverbs 17:23
A sinner takes an offering out of his robe, to get a decision for himself in a cause.

Isaiah 1:17
Take pleasure in well-doing; let your ways be upright, keep down the cruel, give a right decision for the child who has no father, see to the cause of the widow.

Ezekiel 9:9
Then he said to me, The sin of the children of Israel and Judah is very, very great, and the land is full of blood and the town full of evil ways: for they say, The Lord has gone away from the land, and the Lord does not see.

Habakkuk 1:4
For this reason the law is feeble and decisions are not effected: for the upright man is circled round by evil-doers; because of which right is twisted.

Deuteronomy 24:17
Be upright in judging the cause of the man from a strange country and of him who has no father; do not take a widow's clothing on account of a debt:

Job 31:21
If my hand had been lifted up against him who had done no wrong, when I saw that I was supported by the judges;

Job 31:22
May my arm be pulled from my body, and be broken from its base.

Psalms 72:2
May he be a judge of your people in righteousness, and make true decisions for the poor.

Ecclesiastes 7:7
The wise are troubled by the ways of the cruel, and the giving of money is the destruction of the heart.

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Matthew 7:13
Go in by the narrow door; for wide is the door and open is the way which goes to destruction, and great numbers go in by it.

Matthew 7:14
For narrow is the door and hard the road to life, and only a small number make discovery of it.

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Matthew 27:20
Now the chief priests and those in authority got the people to make request for Barabbas, and for Jesus to be put to death.

Matthew 27:21
But the ruler made answer and said to them, Which of the two is it your pleasure that I let go free? And they said, Barabbas.

Matthew 27:22
Pilate says to them, What, then, am I to do with Jesus, who is named Christ? They all say, Let him be put to death on the cross.

Matthew 27:24
So when Pilate saw that he was able to do nothing, but that trouble was working up, he took water and, washing his hands before the people, said, The blood of this upright man is not on my hands: you are responsible.

Matthew 27:25
And all the people made answer and said, Let his blood be on us, and on our children.

Galatians 1:10
Am I now using arguments to men, or God? or is it my desire to give men pleasure? if I was still pleasing men, I would not be a servant of Christ.

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