Proverbs 28:21 - The Message

Playing favorites is always a bad thing; you can do great harm in seemingly harmless ways.

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

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.

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

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

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

He that hath respect to a person in judgment, doth not well: such a man even for a morsel of bread forsaketh the truth.