Proverbs 18:5 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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

How much less to him that respecteth not the persons of princes, Nor regardeth the rich more than the poor? For they all are the work of his hands.

Psalm 82:2

How long will ye judge unjustly, And respect the persons of the wicked? Selah

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:

Exodus 23:3

neither shalt thou favour a poor man in his cause.

Exodus 23:6

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

Proverbs 17:15

He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the righteous, Both of them alike are an abomination to the LORD.

Proverbs 17:26

Also to punish the righteous is not good, Nor to smite the noble for their uprightness.

Proverbs 24:23

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

Proverbs 28:21

To have respect of persons is not good: Neither that a man should transgress for a piece of bread.

Proverbs 31:5

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

Isaiah 5:23

which justify the wicked for a reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!

Isaiah 59:14

And judgement is turned away backward, and righteousness standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and uprightness cannot enter.

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.

Micah 3:9

Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, that abhor judgement, and pervert all equity.

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.

Matthew 22:16

And they send to him their disciples, with the Herodians, saying, Master, we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God in truth, and carest not for any one: for thou regardest not the person of men.

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.