Psalms 82:2
“How long will you judge unjustly, and show partiality to the wicked?” Selah.
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Psalms 82:2
“How long will you judge unjustly, and show partiality to the wicked?” Selah.
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Psalms 82:3
“Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.
Psalms 82:4
Rescue the weak and needy. Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked.”
Psalms 58:1
Do you indeed speak righteousness, silent ones? Do you judge blamelessly, you sons of men?
Jeremiah 5:28
They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excel in deeds of wickedness. They don’t plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don’t defend the rights of the needy.
Proverbs 17:15
He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the righteous, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.
Malachi 3:5
I will come near to you to judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.
Deuteronomy 24:17
You shall not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, nor take a widow’s clothing in pledge;
Job 29:12
because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him,
Deuteronomy 27:19
‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
Proverbs 17:23
A wicked man receives a bribe in secret, to pervert the ways of justice.
Isaiah 1:17
Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Defend the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”
Isaiah 1:23
Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes and follows after rewards. They don’t defend the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.
Isaiah 10:2
to deprive the needy of justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their plunder, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
Jeremiah 22:16
He judged the cause of the poor and needy; so then it was well. Wasn’t this to know me?” says Yahweh.
Amos 5:11
Therefore, because you trample on the poor and take taxes from him of wheat, you have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.
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Psalms 82:1
God presides in the great assembly. He judges among the gods.
Psalms 82:5
They don’t know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.
Psalms 82:6
I said, “You are gods, all of you are sons of the Most High.
Psalms 82:7
Nevertheless you shall die like men, and fall like one of the rulers.”
Psalms 82:8
Arise, God, judge the earth, for you inherit all of the nations.
Exodus 22:28
“You shall not blaspheme God, nor curse a ruler of your people.
John 10:34
Jesus answered them, “Isn’t it written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods?’
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Leviticus 19:15
“ ‘You shall do no injustice in judgment. You shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness.
Deuteronomy 1:15
So I took the heads of your tribes, wise and respected men, and made them heads over you, captains of thousands, captains of hundreds, captains of fifties, captains of tens, and officers, according to your tribes.
Deuteronomy 1:16
I commanded your judges at that time, saying, “Hear cases between your brothers and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the foreigner who is living with him.
Deuteronomy 1:17
You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is God’s. The case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.”
Deuteronomy 16:18
You shall make judges and officers in all your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.
Deuteronomy 16:19
You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality. You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.
Exodus 23:2
“You shall not follow a crowd to do evil. You shall not testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice.
Exodus 23:3
You shall not favor a poor man in his cause.
Exodus 18:21
Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men which fear God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
Exodus 23:7
“Keep far from a false charge, and don’t kill the innocent and righteous; for I will not justify the wicked.
Exodus 23:8
“You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have sight and perverts the words of the righteous.
Leviticus 19:35
“ ‘You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity.
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2 Chronicles 19:6
and said to the judges, “Consider what you do, for you don’t judge for man, but for Yahweh; and he is with you in the judgment.
2 Chronicles 19:7
Now therefore let the fear of Yahweh be on you. Take heed and do it; for there is no iniquity with Yahweh our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of bribes.”
2 Chronicles 19:8
Moreover in Jerusalem Jehoshaphat appointed certain Levites, priests, and heads of the fathers’ households of Israel to give judgment for Yahweh and for controversies. They returned to Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 19:9
He commanded them, saying, “You shall do this in the fear of Yahweh, faithfully, and with a perfect heart.
2 Chronicles 19:10
Whenever any controversy comes to you from your brothers who dwell in their cities, between blood and blood, between law and commandment, statutes and ordinances, you must warn them, that they not be guilty toward Yahweh, and so wrath come on you and on your brothers. Do this, and you will not be guilty.
Proverbs 18:5
To be partial to the faces of the wicked is not good, nor to deprive the innocent of justice.
Proverbs 24:23
These also are sayings of the wise: To show partiality in judgment is not good.
James 2:9
But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.
Job 34:19
He doesn’t respect the persons of princes, nor respect the rich more than the poor, for they all are the work of his hands.
Job 13:8
Will you show partiality to him? Will you contend for God?
Proverbs 28:21
To show partiality is not good, yet a man will do wrong for a piece of bread.
James 2:6
But you have dishonored the poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you and personally drag you before the courts?
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Micah 3:1
I said, “Please listen, you heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: Isn’t it for you to know justice?
Micah 3:2
You who hate the good, and love the evil; who tear off their skin, and their flesh from off their bones;
Micah 3:3
who also eat the flesh of my people, and peel their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as meat within the cauldron.
Micah 3:9
Please listen to this, you heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice, and pervert all equity,
Micah 3:10
who build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
Micah 3:11
Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money; yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, “Isn’t Yahweh among us? No disaster will come on us.”
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Job 13:10
He will surely reprove you if you secretly show partiality.
John 7:24
Don’t judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.”
James 2:4
haven’t you shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?
Deuteronomy 10:17
For Yahweh your God, he is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the awesome, who doesn’t respect persons or take bribes.
1 Peter 1:17
If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man’s work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear,
Deuteronomy 16:20
You shall follow that which is altogether just, that you may live and inherit the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
Malachi 2:9
“Therefore I have also made you contemptible and wicked before all the people, according to the way you have not kept my ways, but have had respect for persons in the law.
Luke 23:50
Behold, there was a man named Joseph, who was a member of the council, a good and righteous man
Acts 10:34
Peter opened his mouth and said, “Truly I perceive that God doesn’t show favoritism;
Romans 2:11
For there is no partiality with God.
Galatians 2:6
But from those who were reputed to be important—whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; God doesn’t show partiality to man—they, I say, who were respected imparted nothing to me,
1 Timothy 5:20
Those who sin, reprove in the sight of all, that the rest also may be in fear.
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Psalms 72:1
God, give the king your justice; your righteousness to the royal son.
Psalms 72:2
He will judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice.
Psalms 72:3
The mountains shall bring prosperity to the people. The hills bring the fruit of righteousness.
Psalms 72:4
He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children of the needy, and will break the oppressor in pieces.
Psalms 72:12
For he will deliver the needy when he cries; the poor, who has no helper.
Psalms 72:13
He will have pity on the poor and needy. He will save the souls of the needy.
Psalms 72:14
He will redeem their soul from oppression and violence. Their blood will be precious in his sight.
Isaiah 11:4
but he will judge the poor with righteousness, and decide with equity for the humble of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips he will kill the wicked.
2 Samuel 23:3
The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spoke to me, ‘One who rules over men righteously, who rules in the fear of God,
1 Kings 10:9
Blessed is Yahweh your God, who delighted in you, to set you on the throne of Israel. Because Yahweh loved Israel forever, therefore he made you king, to do justice and righteousness.”
Psalms 45:7
You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.
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Psalms 58:2
No, in your heart you plot injustice. You measure out the violence of your hands in the earth.
Ecclesiastes 3:16
Moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.
Psalms 94:20
Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with you, which brings about mischief by statute?
Amos 5:7
You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth!
Nehemiah 5:7
Then I consulted with myself, and contended with the nobles and the rulers, and said to them, “You exact usury, everyone of his brother.” I held a great assembly against them.
Nehemiah 5:10
I likewise, my brothers and my servants, lend them money and grain. Please let us stop this usury.
Job 29:13
the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.
Job 29:14
I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.
Isaiah 5:7
For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant. He looked for justice, but behold, oppression, for righteousness, but behold, a cry of distress.
Isaiah 5:23
who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice for the innocent!
Micah 7:2
The godly man has perished out of the earth, and there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; every man hunts his brother with a net.
Habakkuk 1:4
Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice comes out perverted.
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Exodus 10:3
Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, “This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.
Proverbs 1:22
“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?
Exodus 16:28
Yahweh said to Moses, “How long do you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?
1 Kings 18:21
Elijah came near to all the people, and said, “How long will you waver between the two sides? If Yahweh is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him.” The people didn’t say a word.
Proverbs 6:9
How long will you sleep, sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep?
Jeremiah 4:14
Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long will your evil thoughts lodge within you?
Joshua 18:3
Joshua said to the children of Israel, “How long will you neglect to go in to possess the land, which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has given you?
Psalms 62:3
How long will you assault a man? Would all of you throw him down, like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?
Matthew 17:17
Jesus answered, “Faithless and perverse generation! How long will I be with you? How long will I bear with you? Bring him here to me.”
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Proverbs 31:4
It is not for kings, Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, nor for princes to say, ‘Where is strong drink?’
Proverbs 31:5
lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the justice due to anyone who is afflicted.
Proverbs 29:27
A dishonest man detests the righteous, and the upright in their ways detest the wicked.
Luke 16:10
He who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much. He who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much.
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Deuteronomy 19:17
then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before Yahweh, before the priests and the judges who shall be in those days;
Deuteronomy 19:18
and the judges shall make diligent inquisition; and behold, if the witness is a false witness, and has testified falsely against his brother,
Deuteronomy 19:19
then you shall do to him as he had thought to do to his brother. So you shall remove the evil from among you.
2 Samuel 19:29
The king said to him, “Why do you speak any more of your matters? I say, you and Ziba divide the land.”
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