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Leviticus 19:15

Bible in Basic English 1965

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.

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Will you have respect for God's person in this cause, and put yourselves forward as his supporters?

Let me not give respect to any man, or give names of honour to any living.

Who has no respect for rulers, and who gives no more attention to those who have wealth than to the poor, for they are all the work of his hands.

How long will you go on judging falsely, having respect for the persons of evil-doers? Selah.

But for the rest, take from among the people able men, such as have the fear of God, true men hating profits wrongly made; and put such men over them, to be captains of thousands, captains of hundreds and of fifties and of tens;

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

These are more sayings of the wise: To have respect for a person's position when judging is not good.

Let your mouth be open, judging rightly, and give right decisions in the cause of the poor and those in need.

Do not make false decisions in questions of yard-sticks and weights and measures.

Let not your decisions be based on what you see, but on righteousness.

Then Paul said to him, God will give blows to you, you whitewashed wall: are you here to be my judge by law, and by your orders am I given blows against the law?

In judging, do not let a man's position have any weight with you; give hearing equally to small and great; have no fear of any man, for it is God who is judge: and any cause in which you are not able to give a decision, you are to put before me and I will give it a hearing.

For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, strong in power and greatly to be feared, who has no respect for any man's position and takes no rewards:

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.

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.




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