Deuteronomy 16:19 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁹ Thou shalt not wrest judgement; thou shalt not respect persons: neither shalt thou take a gift; for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁹ Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁹ You shall not misinterpret or misapply judgment; you shall not be partial, or take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁹ Thou shalt not wrest justice: thou shalt not respect persons; neither shalt thou take a bribe; for a bribe doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.

Common English Bible

¹⁹ Don’t delay justice; don’t show favoritism. Don’t take bribes because bribery blinds the vision of the wise and twists the words of the righteous.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁹ and not so as to show favoritism to either side. You shall not accept a person's reputation, nor gifts. For gifts blind the eyes of the wise and alter the words of the just.

Deuteronomy 16:19 Cross References

Leviticus 19:15

Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgement: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.

Exodus 23:2

Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to turn aside after a multitude to wrest judgement:

Proverbs 17:23

A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom, To pervert the ways of judgement.

Habakkuk 1:4

Therefore the law is slacked, and judgement doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore judgement goeth forth perverted.

Deuteronomy 24:17

Thou shalt not wrest the judgement of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take the widow's raiment to pledge:

Deuteronomy 10:17

For the LORD your God, he is God of gods, and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward.

Isaiah 1:17

learn to do well; seek judgement, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

Ecclesiastes 7:7

Surely extortion maketh a wise man foolish; and a gift destroyeth the understanding.

Proverbs 24:23

These also are sayings of the wise To have respect of persons in judgement is not good.

Deuteronomy 27:19

Cursed be he that wresteth the judgement of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Acts 23:3

Then said Paul unto him, God shall smite thee, thou whited wall: and sittest thou to judge me according to the law, and commandest me to be smitten contrary to the law?

Acts 16:37

But Paul said unto them, They have beaten us publicly, uncondemned, men that are Romans, and have cast us into prison; and do they now cast us out privily? nay verily; but let them come themselves and bring us out.

Acts 10:34

And Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons:

Micah 7:3

Their hands are upon that which is evil to do it diligently; the prince asketh, and the judge is ready for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth the mischief of his soul: thus they weave it together.

Ezekiel 22:12

In thee have they taken bribes to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by oppression, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD

Jeremiah 5:28

They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass in deeds of wickedness: they plead not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they should prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge,

Isaiah 33:15

He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from looking upon evil;

Isaiah 1:23

Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves; every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.

Proverbs 24:28

Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; And deceive not with thy lips.

1 Samuel 12:3

Here I am: witness against me before the LORD, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of whose hand have I taken a ransom to blind mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it you.

1 Samuel 8:3

And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgement.

Exodus 18:21

Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:

Exodus 23:3

neither shalt thou favour a poor man in his cause.

Deuteronomy 16:18

Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, according to thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with righteous judgement.

1 Samuel 8:1

And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel.

Psalm 15:5

He that putteth not out his money to usury, Nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these things shall never be moved.

Proverbs 15:27

He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house: But he that hateth gifts shall live.

Proverbs 18:5

To accept the person of the wicked is not good, Nor to turn aside the righteous in judgement.

Proverbs 31:5

Lest they drink, and forget the law, And pervert the judgement of any that is afflicted.

Deuteronomy 27:25

Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Ezekiel 18:8

he that hath not given forth upon usury, neither hath taken any increase, that hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity, hath executed true judgement between man and man,