Proverbs 28:21 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²¹ To have respect of persons is not good: Neither that a man should transgress for a piece of bread.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ To have respect of persons is not good: For for a piece of bread that man will transgress.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ To have respect of persons and to show partiality is not good, neither is it good that man should transgress for a piece of bread.

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ To have respect of persons is not good; Neither that a man should transgress for a piece of bread.

Common English Bible

²¹ Those who show favoritism aren’t good; people do wrong for a crust of bread.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ Whoever shows favoritism in judgment does not do well; even if it is for a morsel of bread, he forsakes the truth.

Proverbs 28:21 Cross References

Ezekiel 13:19

And ye have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should not die, and to save the souls alive that should not live, by your lying to my people that hearken unto lies.

Proverbs 24:23

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

Proverbs 18:5

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

Exodus 23:8

And thou shalt take no gift: for a gift blindeth them that have sight, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

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:

2 Peter 2:3

And in covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose sentence now from of old lingereth not, and their destruction slumbereth not.

Romans 16:18

For they that are such serve not our Lord Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and fair speech they beguile the hearts of the innocent.

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.

Micah 3:5

Thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that make my people to err; that bite with their teeth and cry, Peace; and whoso putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him:

Hosea 4:18

Their drink is become sour: they commit whoredom continually; her rulers dearly love shame.

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.