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.
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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.
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Deuteronomy 16:18
You are to make judges and overseers in all your towns which the Lord your God gives you, for every tribe: and they are to be upright men, judging the people 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.
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 23:2
Do not be moved to do wrong by the general opinion, or give the support of your words to a wrong decision:
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.
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.
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;
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.
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.
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,
Leviticus 19:35
Do not make false decisions in questions of yard-sticks and weights and measures.
Deuteronomy 25:1
If there is an argument between men and they go to law with one another, let the judges give their decision for the upright, and against the wrongdoer.
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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.
Proverbs 17:23
A sinner takes an offering out of his robe, to get a decision for himself in a cause.
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.
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.
Isaiah 33:15
He whose ways are true, and whose words are upright; he who gives no thought to the profits of false acts, whose hands have not taken rewards, who will have no part in putting men to death, and whose eyes are shut against evil;
Psalms 26:10
In whose hands are evil designs, and whose right hands take money for judging falsely.
1 Samuel 12:3
Here I am: give witness against me before the Lord and before the man on whom he has put the holy oil: whose ox or ass have I taken? to whom have I been untrue? who has been crushed down by me? from whose hand have I taken a price for the blinding of my eyes? I will give it all back to you.
1 Samuel 12:4
And they said, You have never been untrue to us or cruel to us; you have taken nothing from any man.
Psalms 15:5
He who does not put out his money at interest, or for payment give false decisions against men who have done no wrong. He who does these things will never be moved.
Amos 5:12
For I have seen how your evil-doing is increased and how strong are your sins, you troublers of the upright, who take rewards and do wrong to the cause of the poor in the public place.
Proverbs 15:27
He whose desires are fixed on profit is a cause of trouble to his family; but he who has no desire for offerings will have life.
Hosea 4:18
Their drink has become bitter; they are completely false; her rulers take pleasure in shame.
Jeremiah 22:17
But your eyes and your heart are fixed only on profit for yourself, on causing the death of him who has done no wrong, and on violent and cruel acts.
Micah 3:9
Then give ear to this, you heads of the children of Jacob, you rulers of the children of Israel, hating what is right, twisting what is straight.
Zephaniah 3:3
Her rulers are like loud-voiced lions in her; her judges are wolves of the evening, crushing up the bones before the morning.
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Deuteronomy 27:25
Cursed is he who for a reward puts to death one who has done no wrong. And let all the people say, So be it.
Micah 3:11
Its heads take rewards for judging, and the priests take payment for teaching, and the prophets get silver for reading the future: but still, supporting themselves on the Lord, they say, Is not the Lord among us? no evil will overtake us.
Micah 7:3
Their hands are made ready to do evil; the ruler makes requests for money, and the judge is looking for a reward; and the great man gives decisions at his pleasure, and the right is twisted.
Isaiah 5:23
Who for a reward give support to the cause of the sinner, and who take away the righteousness of the upright from him.
Ecclesiastes 7:7
The wise are troubled by the ways of the cruel, and the giving of money is the destruction of the heart.
Proverbs 17:8
An offering of money is like a stone of great price in the eyes of him who has it: wherever he goes, he does well.
Job 15:34
For the band of the evil-doers gives no fruit, and the tents of those who give wrong decisions for reward are burned with fire.
Proverbs 21:14
By a secret offering wrath is turned away, and the heat of angry feelings by money in the folds of the robe.
Micah 3:3
Like meat they take the flesh of my people for their food, skinning them and crushing their bones, yes, cutting them up as if for the pot, like flesh inside the cooking-pot.
Zephaniah 3:4
Her prophets are good-for-nothing persons, full of deceit: her priests have made the holy place unclean and have gone violently against the law.
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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.
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 22:21
Do no wrong to a man from a strange country, and do not be hard on him; for you yourselves were living in a strange country, in the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 10:18
Judging uprightly in the cause of the widow and of the child who has no father, and giving food and clothing in his mercy to the man from a strange country.
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:
Proverbs 31:5
For fear that through drinking they may come to have no respect for the law, wrongly judging the cause of those who are in trouble.
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.
Jeremiah 5:28
They have become fat and strong: they have gone far in works of evil: they give no support to the cause of the child without a father, so that they may do well; they do not see that the poor man gets his rights.
Jeremiah 22:3
This is what the Lord has said: Do what is right, judging uprightly, and make free from the hands of the cruel one him whose goods have been violently taken away: do no wrong and be not violent to the man from a strange country and the child without a father and the widow, and let not those who have done no wrong be put to death in this place.
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Deuteronomy 10:17
For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, strong in power and greatly to be feared, who has no respect for any man's position and takes no rewards:
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.
Psalms 82:2
How long will you go on judging falsely, having respect for the persons of evil-doers? (Selah.)
Psalms 82:3
Give ear to the cause of the poor and the children without fathers; let those who are troubled and in need have their rights.
Psalms 82:4
Be the saviour of the poor and those who have nothing: take them out of the hand of the evil-doers.
Proverbs 24:23
These are more sayings of the wise: To have respect for a person's position when judging is not good.
Exodus 23:1
Do not let a false statement go further; do not make an agreement with evil-doers to be a false witness.
Deuteronomy 16:20
Let righteousness be your guide, so that you may have life, and take for your heritage the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
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.
John 7:24
Let not your decisions be based on what you see, but on righteousness.
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1 Timothy 6:10
For the love of money is a root of all evil: and some whose hearts were fixed on it have been turned away from the faith, and been wounded with unnumbered sorrows.
Matthew 26:15
What will you give me, if I give him up to you? And the price was fixed at thirty bits of silver.
2 Peter 2:14
Having eyes full of evil desire, never having enough of sin; turning feeble souls out of the true way; they are children of cursing, whose hearts are well used to bitter envy;
2 Peter 2:15
Turning out of the true way, they have gone wandering in error, after the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who was pleased to take payment for wrongdoing;
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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.
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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.
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Proverbs 11:3
The righteousness of the upright will be their guide, but the twisted ways of the false will be their destruction.
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