Exodus 23:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³ nor shall you be partial to the poor in a lawsuit.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ Neither shall you be partial to a poor man in his trial [just because he is poor].

American Standard Version (1901)

³ neither shalt thou favor a poor man in his cause.

Common English Bible

³ But don’t privilege unimportant people in their lawsuits either.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ Likewise, you shall not show pity in judgment of the poor.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ Neither shalt thou favour a poor man in judgment.

Exodus 23:3 Cross References

Exodus 23:6

“You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in their lawsuits.

Proverbs 18:5

It is not right to be partial to the guilty or to subvert the innocent in judgment.

Proverbs 22:22

Do not rob the poor because they are poor or crush the afflicted at the gate,

Isaiah 10:1

Woe to those who make iniquitous decrees, who write oppressive statutes,

Leviticus 19:15

“You shall not render an unjust judgment; you shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great: with justice you shall judge your neighbor.

Amos 5:12

For I know how many are your transgressions and how great are your sins— you who afflict the righteous, who take a bribe and push aside the needy in the gate.

Deuteronomy 1:17

You must not be partial in judging: hear out the small and the great alike; you shall not be intimidated by anyone, for the judgment is God’s. Any case that is too hard for you, bring to me, and I will hear it.’

Deuteronomy 16:19

You must not distort justice; you must not show partiality; and you must not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and subverts the cause of those who are in the right.

James 3:17

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without a trace of partiality or hypocrisy.