Proverbs 18:5

English Standard Version 2016

It is not good to be partial to the wicked or to deprive the righteous of justice.

Cross References

Leviticus 19:15

“You shall do no injustice in court. You shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.

Proverbs 28:21

To show partiality is not good, but for a piece of bread a man will do wrong.

Deuteronomy 16:19

You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality, and you shall not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and subverts the cause of the righteous.

Psalm 82:2

“How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Selah

Proverbs 24:23

These also are sayings of the wise. Partiality in judging is not good.

Proverbs 17:15

He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous are both alike an abomination to the Lord.

Matthew 22:16

And they sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are true and teach the way of God truthfully, and you do not care about anyone’s opinion, for you are not swayed by appearances.

Isaiah 5:23

who acquit the guilty for a bribe, and deprive the innocent of his right!

Job 34:19

who shows no partiality to princes, nor regards the rich more than the poor, for they are all the work of his hands?

Micah 7:3

Their hands are on what is evil, to do it well; the prince and the judge ask for a bribe, and the great man utters the evil desire of his soul; thus they weave it together.

Isaiah 59:14

Justice is turned back, and righteousness stands far away; for truth has stumbled in the public squares, and uprightness cannot enter.

Exodus 23:2

You shall not fall in with the many to do evil, nor shall you bear witness in a lawsuit, siding with the many, so as to pervert justice,

Exodus 23:6

“You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in his lawsuit.

Proverbs 17:26

To impose a fine on a righteous man is not good, nor to strike the noble for their uprightness.

Proverbs 31:5

lest they drink and forget what has been decreed and pervert the rights of all the afflicted.

Micah 3:9

Hear this, you heads of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, who detest justice and make crooked all that is straight,

Exodus 23:3

nor shall you be partial to a poor man in his lawsuit.