Deuteronomy 16:19

American King James Version (1999)

You shall not wrest judgment; you shall not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift does blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.

Cross References

Psalm 15:5

He that puts not out his money to usury, nor takes reward against the innocent. He that does these things shall never be moved.

Exodus 18:21

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

Exodus 23:2

You shall not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shall you speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:

Exodus 23:3

Neither shall you countenance a poor man in his cause.

Proverbs 15:27

He that is greedy of gain troubles his own house; but he that hates gifts shall live.

Proverbs 17:23

A wicked man takes a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.

Proverbs 18:5

It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment.

Proverbs 24:23

These things also belong to the wise. It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment.

Proverbs 24:28

Be not a witness against your neighbor without cause; and deceive not with your lips.

Proverbs 31:5

Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.

Ecclesiastes 7:7

Surely oppression makes a wise man mad; and a gift destroys the heart.

Isaiah 1:17

Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

Isaiah 1:23

Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loves gifts, and follows after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

Isaiah 33:15

He that walks righteously, and speaks uprightly; he that despises the gain of oppressions, that shakes his hands from holding of bribes, that stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from seeing evil;

Jeremiah 5:28

They are waxen fat, they shine: yes, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.

Ezekiel 18:8

He that has not given forth on usury, neither has taken any increase, that has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has executed true judgment between man and man,

Ezekiel 22:12

In you have they taken gifts to shed blood; you have taken usury and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by extortion, and have forgotten me, said the Lord GOD.

Leviticus 19:15

You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: you shall not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.

Micah 7:3

That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asks, and the judge asks for a reward; and the great man, he utters his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.

Habakkuk 1:4

Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment does never go forth: for the wicked does compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceeds.

Acts 10:34

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

Acts 16:37

But Paul said to them, They have beaten us openly uncondemned, being Romans, and have cast us into prison; and now do they thrust us out privately? no truly; but let them come themselves and fetch us out.

Acts 23:3

Then said Paul to him, God shall smite you, you white washed wall: for sit you to judge me after the law, and command me to be smitten contrary to the law?

Deuteronomy 10:17

For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regards not persons, nor takes reward:

Deuteronomy 16:18

Judges and officers shall you make you in all your gates, which the LORD your God gives you, throughout your tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.

Deuteronomy 24:17

You shall not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:

Deuteronomy 27:19

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

Deuteronomy 27:25

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

1 Samuel 12:3

Behold, 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 received any bribe to blind my eyes therewith? and I will restore it you.

1 Samuel 8:1

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

1 Samuel 8:3

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