Exodus 23:6

Bible in Basic English 1965

Let no wrong decisions be given in the poor man's cause.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 19:7

So now let the fear of the Lord be in you; do your work with care; for in the Lord our God there is no evil, or respect for high position, or taking of payment to do wrong.

Job 31:13

If I did wrong in the cause of my man-servant, or my woman-servant, when they went to law with me;

Proverbs 18:5

To have respect for the person of the evil-doer is not good, or to give a wrong decision against the upright.

Proverbs 22:22

Do not take away the property of the poor man because he is poor, or be cruel to the crushed ones when they come before the judge:

Proverbs 31:5

For fear that through drinking they may come to have no respect for the law, wrongly judging the cause of those who are in trouble.

Ecclesiastes 5:8

If you see the poor under a cruel yoke, and law and right being violently overturned in a country, be not surprised, because one authority is keeping watch on another and there are higher than they.

Isaiah 5:23

Who for a reward give support to the cause of the sinner, and who take away the righteousness of the upright from him.

Jeremiah 5:28

They have become fat and strong: they have gone far in works of evil: they give no support to the cause of the child without a father, so that they may do well; they do not see that the poor man gets his rights.

Jeremiah 6:28

All of them are turned away, going about with false stories; they are brass and iron: they are all workers of deceit.

Jeremiah 7:6

If you are not cruel to the man from a strange country, and to the child without a father, and to the widow, and do not put the upright to death in this place, or go after other gods, causing damage to yourselves:

Leviticus 19:15

Do no wrong in your judging: do not give thought to the position of the poor, or honour to the position of the great; but be a judge to your neighbour in righteousness.

Malachi 3:5

And I will come near to you for judging; I will quickly be a witness against the wonder-workers, against those who have been untrue in married life, against those who take false oaths; against those who keep back from the servant his payment, and who are hard on the widow and the child without a father, who do not give his rights to the man from a strange country, and have no fear of me, says the Lord of armies.

Deuteronomy 16:19

You are not to be moved in your judging by a man's position, you are not to take rewards; for rewards make the eyes of the wise man blind, and the decisions of the upright false.

Deuteronomy 27:19

Cursed is he who gives a wrong decision in the cause of a man from a strange land, or of one without a father, or of a widow. And let all the people say, So be it.

1 Samuel 8:3

And his sons did not go in his ways, but moved by the love of money took rewards, and were not upright in judging.