Proverbs 28:21

Proverbs 28:21
It is not good to have respect for a man's position: for a man will do wrong for a bit of bread.

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

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.

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.

Psalms 15:4
Who gives honour to those who have the fear of the Lord, turning away from him who has not the Lord's approval. He who takes an oath against himself, and makes no change.

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.

1 Timothy 5:20
Say sharp words to sinners when all are present, so that the rest may be in fear.

James 2:2
For if a man comes into your Synagogue in fair clothing and with a gold ring, and a poor man comes in with dirty clothing,

James 2:7
Do they not say evil of the holy name which was given to you?

James 2:8
But if you keep the greatest law of all, as it is given in the holy Writings, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself, you do well:

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Judges 1:16
Now Hobab the Kenite, Moses' father-in-law, had come up out of the town of palm-trees, with the children of Judah, into the waste land of Arad; and he went and was living among the Amalekites;

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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:

Job 13:7
Will you say in God's name what is not right, and put false words into his mouth?

Job 13:10
He will certainly put you right, if you have respect for persons in secret.

Job 32:21
Let me not give respect to any man, or give names of honour to any living.

1 Peter 1:17
And if you give the name of Father to him who, judging every man by his acts, has no respect for a man's position, then go in fear while you are on this earth:

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Psalms 40:4
Happy is the man who has faith in the Lord, and does not give honour to the men of pride or to those who are turned away to deceit.

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1 Kings 21:20
And Ahab said to Elijah, Have you come face to face with me, O my hater? And he said, I have come to you because you have given yourself up to do evil in the eyes of the Lord.

Proverbs 1:10
My son, if sinners would take you out of the right way, do not go with them.

Proverbs 1:11
If they say, Come with us; let us make designs against the good, waiting secretly for the upright, without cause;

Proverbs 1:12
Let us overcome them living, like the underworld, and in their strength, as those who go down to death;

Proverbs 1:13
Goods of great price will be ours, our houses will be full of wealth;

Proverbs 1:14
Take your chance with us, and we will all have one money-bag:

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

Proverbs 1:16
For their feet are running after evil, and they are quick to take a man's life.

Proverbs 6:26
For a loose woman is looking for a cake of bread, but another man's wife goes after one's very life.

Mark 14:11
And hearing what he said, they were glad, and gave him their word to make him a payment of money. And he took thought how he might best give him up to them.

Hebrews 12:16
And that there may not be any evil liver, or any man without respect for God, like Esau, who let his birthright go for a plate of food.

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Proverbs 16:10
Decision is in the lips of the king: his mouth will not go wrong in judging.

Proverbs 26:10
Like an archer wounding all who go by, is a foolish man overcome by drink.

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Proverbs 17:26
To give punishment to the upright is not good, or to give blows to the noble for their righteousness.

Proverbs 21:9
It is better to be living in an angle of the house-top, than with a bitter-tongued woman in a wide house.

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Proverbs 28:19
By ploughing his land a man will have bread in full measure; but he who goes after good-for-nothing persons will be poor enough.

Proverbs 28:25
He who is ever desiring profit is a cause of fighting; but he who puts his faith in the Lord will be made fat.

Proverbs 28:26
He whose faith is in himself is foolish; but everyone walking wisely will be kept safe.

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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.

Isaiah 2:22
Have no more to do with man, whose life is only a breath, for he is of no value.

Isaiah 3:9
Their respect for a man's position is a witness against them; and their sin is open to the view of all; like that of Sodom, it is not covered. A curse on their soul! for the measure of their sin is full.

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Judges 17:10
Then Micah said to him, Make your living-place with me, and be a father and a priest to me, and I will give you ten shekels of silver a year and your clothing and food.

Judges 18:4
And he said to them, This is what Micah did for me, and he gave me payment and I became his priest.

Isaiah 56:11
Yes, the dogs are for ever looking for food; while these, the keepers of the sheep, are without wisdom: they have all gone after their pleasure, every one looking for profit; they are all the same.

Hosea 4:8
The sin of my people is like food to them; and their desire is for their wrongdoing.

Hosea 4:9
And the priest will be like the people; I will give them punishment for their evil ways, and the reward of their acts.

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.

John 10:12
He who is a servant, and not the keeper or the owner of the sheep, sees the wolf coming and goes in flight, away from the sheep; and the wolf comes down on them and sends them in all directions:

John 10:13
Because he is a servant he has no interest in the sheep.

Acts 8:18
Now when Simon saw that the Holy Spirit was given through the touch of the Apostles' hands, he made them an offering of money, saying,

Acts 8:19
Give me this power, so that when I put my hands on anyone he may get the Holy Spirit.

Acts 8:20
But Peter said, May your money come to destruction with you, because you had the idea that what is freely given by God may be got for a price.

Acts 8:21
You have no part in this business, because your heart is not right before God.

Acts 20:33
I have had no desire for any man's silver or gold or clothing.

1 Timothy 3:3
Not quickly moved to wrath or blows, but gentle; no fighter, no lover of money;

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.

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Isaiah 65:2
All day my hands have been stretched out to an uncontrolled people, who go in an evil way, after the purposes of their hearts;

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1 Kings 21:4
So Ahab came into his house bitter and angry because Naboth the Jezreelite had said to him, I will not give you the heritage of my fathers. And stretching himself on the bed with his face turned away, he would take no food.

Job 24:21
He is not kind to the widow, and he has no pity for her child.

Hosea 4:18
Their drink has become bitter; they are completely false; her rulers take pleasure in shame.

Amos 2:7
Crushing the head of the poor, and turning the steps of the gentle out of the way: and a man and his father go in to the same young woman, putting shame on my holy name:

Amos 4:1
Give ear to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are in the hill of Samaria, by whom the poor are kept down, and those in need are crushed; who say to their lords, Get out the wine and give us drink.

Amos 5:11
So because the poor man is crushed under your feet, and you take taxes from him of grain: you have made for yourselves houses of cut stone, but you will not take your rest in them; the fair vine-gardens planted by your hands will not give you wine.

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.

Micah 2:2
They have a desire for fields and take them by force; and for houses and take them away: they are cruel to a man and his family, even to a man and his heritage.

Micah 2:9
The women of my people you have been driving away from their dearly loved children; from their young ones you are taking my glory for ever.

Micah 7:2
The good man is gone from the earth, there is no one upright among men: they are all waiting secretly for blood, every man is going after his brother with a net.

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.

Malachi 3:5
And I will come near to you for judging; I will quickly be a witness against the wonder-workers, against those who have been untrue in married life, against those who take false oaths; against those who keep back from the servant his payment, and who are hard on the widow and the child without a father, who do not give his rights to the man from a strange country, and have no fear of me, says the Lord of armies.

Acts 3:14
But you would have nothing to do with the Holy and Upright One, and made request for a man of blood to be given to you,

James 5:6
You have given your decision against the upright man and have put him to death. He puts up no fight against you.

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1 Samuel 2:16
And if the man said to him, First let the fat be burned, then take as much as you will; then the servant would say, No, you are to give it to me now, or I will take it by force.

1 Samuel 2:17
And the sin of these young men was very great before the Lord; for they gave no honour to the Lord's offerings.

2 Kings 5:26
And he said to him, Did not my heart go with you, when the man got down from his carriage and went back to you? Is this a time for getting money, and clothing, and olive-gardens and vine-gardens, and sheep and oxen, and men-servants and women-servants?

Romans 1:11
For I have a strong desire to see you, and to give you some grace of the spirit, so that you may be made strong;

Romans 14:15
And if because of food your brother is troubled, then you are no longer going on in the way of love. Do not let your food be destruction to him for whom Christ went into death.

1 Timothy 6:5
Bitter talk of men who, being evil in mind and dead to what is true, take the faith to be a way of making profit.

Titus 1:11
By whom some families have been completely overturned; who take money for teaching things which are not right; these will have to be stopped.

James 3:17
But the wisdom which is from heaven is first holy, then gentle, readily giving way in argument, full of peace and mercy and good works, not doubting, not seeming other than it is.

1 Peter 5:2
Keep watch over the flock of God which is in your care, using your authority, not as forced to do so, but gladly; and not for unclean profit but with a ready mind;

2 Peter 2:1
But there were false prophets among the people, as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly put forward wrong teachings for your destruction, even turning away from the Lord who gave himself for them; whose destruction will come quickly, and they themselves will be the cause of it.

Jude 1:11
A curse on them! They have gone in the way of Cain, running uncontrolled into the error of Balaam for reward, and have come to destruction by saying evil against the Lord, like Korah.

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