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Deut.16.19

Deuteronomy 16:19

King James Version (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.

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King James Version (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:
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Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:
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Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.
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And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.
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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.
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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.
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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:
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¶ 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.
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¶ Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow’s raiment to pledge:
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And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel.
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And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.
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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.
King James Version (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.
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He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live.
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A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.
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It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment.
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These things also belong to the wise. It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment.
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Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.
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¶ Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart.
King James Version (KJV)
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.