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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.

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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.

Deuteronomy 17:8
If you are not able to give a decision as to who is responsible for a death, or who is right in a cause, or who gave the first blow in a fight, and there is a division of opinion about it in your town: then go to the place marked out by the Lord your God;

Deuteronomy 21:2
Then your responsible men and your judges are to come out, and give orders for the distance from the dead body to the towns round about it to be measured;

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 19:10
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.

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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.

Leviticus 19:35
Do not make false decisions in questions of yard-sticks and weights and measures.

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.

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 17:15
He who gives a decision for the evil-doer and he who gives a decision against the upright, are equally disgusting to the Lord.

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.

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.

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.

James 2:6
But you have put the poor man to shame. Are not the men of wealth rulers over you? do they not take you by force before their judges?

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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Proverbs 29:27
An evil man is disgusting to the upright, and he who is upright is disgusting to evil-doers.

Proverbs 31:4
It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to take wine, or for rulers to say, Where is strong drink?

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.

Ecclesiastes 3:16
And again, I saw under the sun, in the place of the judges, that evil was there; and in the place of righteousness, that evil was there.

Luke 16:10
He who is true in a little, is true in much; he who is false in small things, is false in great.

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Deuteronomy 16:17
Every man is to give as he is able, in the measure of the blessing which the Lord your God has given you.

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.

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.

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.

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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Isaiah 11:5
And righteousness will be the cord of his robe, and good faith the band round his breast.

Isaiah 32:1
See, a king will be ruling in righteousness, and chiefs will give right decisions.

Jeremiah 23:5
See, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will give to David a true Branch, and he will be ruling as king, acting wisely, doing what is right, and judging uprightly in the land.

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Romans 13:3
For rulers are not a cause of fear to the good work but to the evil. If you would have no fear of the authority, do good and you will have praise;

Romans 13:4
For he is the servant of God to you for good. But if you do evil, have fear; for the sword is not in his hand for nothing: he is God's servant, making God's punishment come on the evil-doer.

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Galatians 2:6
But from those who seemed to be important (whatever they were has no weight with me: God does not take man's person into account): those who seemed to be important gave nothing new to me;

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