Stop judging by mere appearances, but instead judge correctly.”
“How long will you defend the unjust and show partiality to the wicked?
Acquitting the guilty and condemning the innocent— the Lord detests them both.
These also are sayings of the wise: To show partiality in judging is not good:
who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice to the innocent.
“ ‘Do not pervert justice; do not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the great, but judge your neighbor fairly.
“This is what the Lord Almighty said: ‘Administer true justice; show mercy and compassion to one another.
At that point some of the people of Jerusalem began to ask, “Isn’t this the man they are trying to kill?
You judge by human standards; I pass judgment on no one.
You are judging by appearances. If anyone is confident that they belong to Christ, they should consider again that we belong to Christ just as much as they do.
My brothers and sisters, believers in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ must not show favoritism.
have you not discriminated among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?
But if you show favoritism, you sin and are convicted by the law as lawbreakers.