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Deut.16.19

Deuteronomy 16:19

KJV

Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.

Judges and Justice

Cross References

Exodus 18:21
KJV
Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:

Jethro Advises Moses

Jethro Counsels Moses
Exodus 23:2
KJV GOD
Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:

Justice and Mercy

Exodus 23:3
KJV GOD
Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.

Justice and Mercy

Exodus 23:8
KJV GOD
And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

Justice and Mercy

Leviticus 19:15
KJV GOD
Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.

Love Your Neighbor

Deuteronomy 1:17
KJV
Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God’s: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it.

Moses Appoints Leaders

Deuteronomy 10:17
KJV
For the Lord your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward:

A Call to Obedience

Deuteronomy 16:18
KJV
¶ Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the Lord thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.

Judges and Justice

Deuteronomy 24:17
KJV
¶ Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow’s raiment to pledge:

Additional Laws

1 Samuel 8:1
KJV
And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel.

Israel Demands a King

1 Samuel 8:3
KJV
And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.

Israel Demands a King

1 Samuel 12:3
KJV
Behold, here I am: witness against me before the Lord, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of whose hand have I received any bribe to blind mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it you.

Samuel’s Farewell Address

Samuel Addresses Israel
Psalm 15:5
KJV
He that putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these things shall never be moved.

Who May Dwell on Your Holy Mountain?

A Psalm of David.
Proverbs 15:27
KJV
He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live.

A Gentle Answer Turns Away Wrath

Proverbs 17:23
KJV
A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.

Better a Dry Morsel in Quietness

Proverbs 18:5
KJV
It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment.

The Selfishness of the Unfriendly

Proverbs 24:23
KJV
These things also belong to the wise. It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment.

Further Sayings of the Wise

Proverbs 31:5
KJV
Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.

The Sayings for King Lemuel

Ecclesiastes 7:7
KJV
¶ Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart.

The Value of Wisdom

Ezekiel 22:12
KJV GOD
In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord God.

The Sins of Jerusalem