Deuteronomy 16:19

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

and bow they not into the other part for favour, either gift. Thou shalt not take a person, neither gifts, for why gifts blind the eyes of wise men, and change the words of just [or rightwise] men.

Cross References

Psalm 15:5

which gave not his money to usury; and took not gifts upon the innocent. He, that doeth these things, shall not be moved without end.

Exodus 18:21

Forsooth purvey thou of all the people wise men, and dreading God, in which is truth, and which hate avarice; and ordain thou of them tribunes [or rulers upon thousands], and centurions [or rulers upon hundreds], and quinquagenaries [or rulers upon fifty], and deans [or rulers upon ten],

Exodus 23:2

Thou shalt not follow a company to do evil, neither thou shalt assent to the sentence of full many men in doom, that thou go away from truth.

Exodus 23:3

Also thou shalt not have mercy of a poor man in a cause, or doom.

Proverbs 15:27

He that pursueth [or followeth] avarice, troubleth his house; but he that hateth gifts shall live. Sins be purged by mercy and faith; each man boweth away from evil by the dread of the Lord.

Proverbs 17:23

A wicked man taketh gifts from the bosom, to mis-turn the paths of doom.

Proverbs 18:5

It is not good to take the person of a wicked man in doom, that thou bow away from the truth of doom.

Proverbs 24:23

Also these things that pursue be to wise men. It is not good to know a person in doom.

Proverbs 24:28

Be thou not a witness without reasonable cause against thy neighbour; neither flatter thou any man with thy lips.

Proverbs 31:5

Lest peradventure they drink, and forget dooms, and change the cause of the sons of a poor man.

Ecclesiastes 7:7

False challenge troubleth a wise man, and it shall lose the strength of his heart.

Isaiah 1:17

learn ye to do well. Seek ye doom, help ye him that is oppressed, deem ye to the fatherless and motherless child, defend ye a widow.

Isaiah 1:23

Thy princes be unfaithful, the fellows of thieves; all love gifts, and follow yieldings, either meeds; they deem not to a fatherless child, and the cause of a widow entereth not to them.

Isaiah 33:15

He that goeth in rightfulnesses [or rightwisenesses], and speaketh truth; he that casteth away avarice of false challenge, and shaketh away his hands from all gifts, or bribes; he that stoppeth his ears, that he hear not blood, and closeth his eyes, that he see not evil.

Jeremiah 5:28

Therefore they be magnified, and made rich, made fat within, and made fat withoutforth, and they passed worst my words; they deemed not the cause of a widow, they dressed not the cause of a fatherless child, and they deemed not the doom of poor men.

Ezekiel 18:8

lendeth not to usury, and taketh not more; turneth away his hand from wickedness, and maketh true doom betwixt man and man;

Ezekiel 22:12

They took gifts of thee, to shed out blood; thou tookest usury and over-abundance, and thou challengedest greedily thy neighbours, and thou hast forgotten me, saith the Lord God.

Leviticus 19:15

Thou shalt not do that, that is wicked, neither thou shalt deem unjustly; behold thou not the person of a poor man, neither honour thou the face of a mighty man; deem thou justly to thy neighbour.

Micah 7:3

The evil of their hands they say good; the prince asketh, and the doomsman is in yielding; and a great man spake the desire of his soul, and they troubled altogether it.

Habakkuk 1:4

For this thing law is broken, and doom cometh not till to the end; for the unpious man hath might against the just, therefore wayward doom shall go out.

Acts 10:34

And Peter opened his mouth, and said, In truth I have found, that God is no acceptor of persons;

Acts 16:37

And Paul said to them, They sent us men of Rome into prison, that were beaten openly and uncondemned, and now privily they bring us out; not so, but come they themselves, and deliver us out.

Acts 23:3

Then Paul said to him, Thou whited wall [or Thou wall made white], God [shall] smite thee; thou sittest, and deemest me by the law, and against the law thou commandest me to be smitten.

Deuteronomy 10:17

For your Lord God himself is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, and mighty, and fearful, which taketh not a person, neither gifts, but justly he deemeth rich and poor.

Deuteronomy 16:18

Thou shalt ordain judges, and exactors, in all thy gates which thy Lord God shall give to thee, by each of thy lineages, that they deem the people by just [or right] doom,

Deuteronomy 24:17

Thou shalt not waywardly turn, or mis-deem, the doom of the comeling, or of the fatherless, either motherless child; neither thou shalt take away instead of a wed the cloth of a widow.

Deuteronomy 27:19

He is cursed that perverteth the doom of a comeling, of a fatherless, either motherless child, and of a widow; and all the people shall say, Amen!

Deuteronomy 27:25

Cursed is he that taketh gifts, that he smite the life of innocent blood; and all the people shall say, Amen!

1 Samuel 12:3

And lo! I am ready; speak ye to me before the Lord, and before the christ of him or his anointed, or king; whether I have taken any man’s ox, either his ass; if I have falsely challenged any man; if I have oppressed any man; if I have taken gift of any man’s hand; I shall despise it today, and I shall restore to you.

1 Samuel 8:1

And it was done, when Samuel waxed eld [or old], he set [or put] his sons to be judges of Israel.

1 Samuel 8:3

And his sons went not in his ways, but they bowed after avarice, and they took gifts, and perverted doom.