Exodus 23:3 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

More versions

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

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

Proverbs 18:5

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

Proverbs 22:22

Rob not the poor, because he is poor, Neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:

Isaiah 10:1

Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers that write perverseness:

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.

Amos 5:12

For I know how manifold are your transgressions, and how mighty are your sins; ye that afflict the just, that take a bribe, and that turn aside the needy in the gate from their right.

Deuteronomy 1:17

Ye shall not respect persons in judgement; ye shall hear the small and the great alike; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgement is God's: and the cause that is too hard for you ye shall bring unto me, and I will hear it.

Deuteronomy 16:19

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.

James 3:17

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without variance, without hypocrisy.