Proverbs 18:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁵ It is not right to be partial to the guilty or to subvert the innocent in judgment.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, To overthrow the righteous in judgment.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ To respect the person of the wicked and be partial to him, so as to deprive the [consistently] righteous of justice, is not good.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ To respect the person of the wicked is not good, Nor to turn aside the righteous in judgment.

Common English Bible

⁵ Favoring the wicked isn’t good; it denies justice to the righteous.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ It is not good to accept the character of the impious, so as to turn away from true judgment.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to decline from the truth of judgment.

Proverbs 18:5 Cross References

Job 34:19

who shows no partiality to nobles, nor regards the rich more than the poor, for they are all the work of his hands?

Psalm 82:2

“How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Selah

Exodus 23:2

You shall not follow a majority in wrongdoing; when you bear witness in a lawsuit, you shall not side with the majority so as to pervert justice,

Exodus 23:3

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

Exodus 23:6

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

Proverbs 17:15

One who justifies the wicked and one who condemns the righteous are both alike an abomination to the Lord.

Proverbs 17:26

To impose a fine on the innocent is not right or to flog the noble for their integrity.

Proverbs 24:23

These also are sayings of the wise: Partiality in judging is not good.

Proverbs 28:21

To show partiality is not good, yet for a piece of bread a person may do wrong.

Proverbs 31:5

lest they drink and forget what has been decreed and pervert the rights of all the afflicted.

Isaiah 5:23

who acquit the guilty for a bribe and deprive the innocent of their rights!

Isaiah 59:14

Justice is turned back, and deliverance stands at a distance, for truth stumbles in the public square, and uprightness cannot enter.

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.

Micah 3:9

Hear this, you rulers of the house of Jacob and chiefs of the house of Israel, who abhor justice and pervert all equity,

Micah 7:3

Their hands are skilled to do evil; the official and the judge ask for a bribe, and the powerful dictate what they desire; thus they pervert justice.

Matthew 22:16

So they sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are sincere, and teach the way of God in accordance with truth, and show deference to no one, for you do not regard people with partiality.

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.