Deuteronomy 16:19 - Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁹ and not so as to show favoritism to either side. You shall not accept a person's reputation, nor gifts. For gifts blind the eyes of the wise and alter the words of the just.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁹ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁹ You shall not misinterpret or misapply judgment; you shall not be partial, or take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁹ Thou shalt not wrest justice: thou shalt not respect persons; neither shalt thou take a bribe; for a bribe doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.

Common English Bible

¹⁹ Don’t delay justice; don’t show favoritism. Don’t take bribes because bribery blinds the vision of the wise and twists the words of the righteous.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁹ And not go aside to either part. Thou shalt not accept person nor gifts: for gifts blind the eyes of the wise, and change the words of the just.

Deuteronomy 16:19 পৰস্পৰ সংযোগসমূহ

Leviticus 19:15

You shall not do what is unjust, nor shall you judge unjustly. You shall not consider the reputation of the poor, nor shall you honor the countenance of the powerful. Judge your neighbor justly.

Exodus 23:2

You shall not follow the crowd in doing evil. Neither shall you go astray in judgment, by agreeing with the majority opinion, apart from the truth.

Proverbs 17:23

The impious receives gifts from the bosom, so that he may pervert the paths of judgment.

Habakkuk 1:4

Because of this, the law has been torn apart, and judgment does not persevere to its conclusion. For the impious prevail against the just. Because of this, a perverse judgment is issued.

Deuteronomy 24:17

You shall not pervert the judgment of the new arrival or the orphan, nor shall you take away the widow's garment as collateral.

Deuteronomy 10:17

For the Lord your God himself is the God of gods, and the Lord of lords, a God great and powerful and terrible, who favors no person and accepts no bribe.

Isaiah 1:17

Learn to do good. Seek judgment, support the oppressed, judge for the orphan, defend the widow.

Ecclesiastes 7:7

For, like the crackling of thorns burning under a pot, so is the laughter of the foolish. But this, too, is emptiness.

Proverbs 24:23

Likewise, these things are for the wise. It is not good to base judgment on knowledge of character.

Deuteronomy 27:19

Cursed be he who subverts the judgment of the new arrival, the orphan, or the widow. And all the people shall say: Amen.

Acts 23:3

Then Paul said to him: "God shall strike you, you whitewashed wall! For would you sit and judge me according to the law, when, contrary to the law, you order me to be struck?"

Acts 16:37

But Paul said to them: "They have beaten us publicly, though we were not condemned. They have cast men who are Romans into prison. And now they would drive us away secretly? Not so. Instead, let them come forward,

Acts 10:34

Then, Peter, opening his mouth, said: "I have concluded in truth that God is not a respecter of persons.

Micah 7:3

The evil of their hands, they call good. The leader is demanding, and the judge is yielding, and the great is speaking the desire of his soul, and they have confused it.

Ezekiel 22:12

They have accepted bribes among you to shed blood. You have received usury and superabundance, and in avarice you have oppressed your neighbors. And you have forgotten me, says the Lord God.

Jeremiah 5:28

They have grown stout and fat. And they have transgressed my words most wickedly. They have not judged the case of the widow; they have not given guidance to the case of the orphan; and they have not judged a judgment for the poor.

Isaiah 33:15

The one who walks in justice and speaks the truth, who casts out avarice with oppression and shakes all bribes from his hands, who blocks his ears so that he may not listen to blood, and closes his eyes so that he may not see evil.

Isaiah 1:23

Your leaders are unfaithful, the associates of thieves. They all love gifts; they pursue rewards. They do not judge for orphans, and the widow's case is not brought before them.

Proverbs 24:28

Do not be a witness without cause against your neighbor. And do not mislead anyone with your lips.

1 Samuel 12:3

Speak about me before the Lord, and before his Christ, as to whether I have taken anyone's ox or donkey, or whether I have falsely accused anyone, or whether I have oppressed anyone, or whether I have accepted a bribe from the hand of anyone, and I will repudiate the same, this day, and I will restore it to you."

1 Samuel 8:3

But his sons did not walk in his ways. Instead, they turned aside, pursuing avarice. And they accepted bribes, and they perverted judgment.

Exodus 18:21

Then provide, from all of the people, men capable and fearing God, in whom there is truth and who hate avarice, and appoint from them tribunes, and leaders of hundreds, and of fifties, and of tens,

Exodus 23:3

Likewise, you shall not show pity in judgment of the poor.

Deuteronomy 16:18

You shall appoint judges and magistrates at all your gates, which the Lord your God will give to you, throughout each of your tribes, so that they may judge the people with a just judgment,

1 Samuel 8:1

And it happened that, when Samuel had become old, he appointed his sons as judges over Israel.

Psalm 15:5

The Lord is the portion of my inheritance and my cup. It is you who will restore my inheritance to me.

Proverbs 15:27

Whoever pursues avarice disturbs his own house. But whoever hates bribes shall live. Through mercy and faith, sins are purged. But through the fear of the Lord, each one turns aside from evil.

Proverbs 18:5

It is not good to accept the character of the impious, so as to turn away from true judgment.

Proverbs 31:5

And perhaps they may drink and forget judgments, and alter the case of the sons of the poor.

Deuteronomy 27:25

Cursed be he who accepts gifts in order to strike down the life of innocent blood. And all the people shall say: Amen.

Ezekiel 18:8

if he has not lent upon usury, nor taken any increase, if he has averted his hand from iniquity, and has executed true judgment between man and man,