Proverbs 28:21 - Hebrew Names version (HNV)

²¹ To show partiality is not good; yet a man will do wrong for a piece of bread.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ To have respect of persons is not good: For for a piece of bread that man will transgress.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ To have respect of persons and to show partiality is not good, neither is it good that man should transgress for a piece of bread.

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ To have respect of persons is not good; Neither that a man should transgress for a piece of bread.

Common English Bible

²¹ Those who show favoritism aren’t good; people do wrong for a crust of bread.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ Whoever shows favoritism in judgment does not do well; even if it is for a morsel of bread, he forsakes the truth.

Proverbs 28:21 Cross References

Exodus 23:2

You shall not follow a crowd to do evil; neither shall you testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice;

Exodus 23:8

*You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have sight and perverts the words of the righteous.

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.

Ezekiel 13:19

You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to kill the souls who should not die, and to save the souls alive who should not live, by your lying to my people who listen to lies.

Hosea 4:18

Their drink has become sour. They play the prostitute continually. Her rulers dearly love their shameful way.

Micah 3:5

Thus says the LORD concerning the prophets who lead my people astray; for those who feed their teeth, they proclaim, *Shalom!* and whoever doesn't provide for their mouths, they prepare war against him:

Micah 7:3

Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe; and the powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.

Romans 16:18

For those who are such don't serve our Lord, Yeshua the Messiah, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

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: and the cause that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.

2 Peter 2:3

In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn't linger, and their destruction will not slumber.