Exodus 23:6 - Revised Standard Version CI

⁶ “You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in his suit.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in his cause.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ Thou shalt not wrest the justice due to thy poor in his cause.

Common English Bible

⁶ Don’t undermine the justice that your poor deserve in their lawsuits.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ You shall not deviate in judgment of the poor.

Exodus 23:6 Cross References

2 Chronicles 19:7

Now then, let the fear of the Lord be upon you; take heed what you do, for there is no perversion of justice with the Lord our God, or partiality, or taking bribes.”

Job 31:13

“If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or my maidservant, when they brought a complaint against me;

Proverbs 18:5

It is not good to be partial to a wicked man, or to deprive a righteous man of justice.

Proverbs 22:22

Do not rob the poor, because he is poor, or crush the afflicted at the gate;

Proverbs 31:5

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

Ecclesiastes 5:8

If you see in a province the poor oppressed and justice and right violently taken away, do not be amazed at the matter; for the high official is watched by a higher, and there are yet higher ones over them.

Isaiah 5:23

who acquit the guilty for a bribe, and deprive the innocent of his right!

Jeremiah 5:28

they have grown fat and sleek. They know no bounds in deeds of wickedness; they judge not with justice the cause of the fatherless, to make it prosper, and they do not defend the rights of the needy.

Jeremiah 6:28

They are all stubbornly rebellious, going about with slanders; they are bronze and iron, all of them act corruptly.

Jeremiah 7:6

if you do not oppress the alien, the fatherless or the widow, or shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not go after other gods to your own hurt,

Leviticus 19:15

“You shall do no injustice in judgment; you shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.

Malachi 3:5

“Then I will draw near to you for judgment; I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow and the orphan, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.

Deuteronomy 16:19

You shall not pervert justice; you shall not show partiality; and you shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and subverts the cause of the righteous.

Deuteronomy 27:19

“ ‘Cursed be he who perverts the justice due to the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

1 Samuel 8:3

Yet his sons did not walk in his ways, but turned aside after gain; they took bribes and perverted justice.