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Proverbs 28:21

Y'all Version Bible

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

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Y’all have profaned me among my people for a handful of barley and a scrap of bread. Y’all have killed the souls who should not die and saved the souls who should not live, by lying to my people who listen to lies.’


These also are sayings of the wise: To show partiality in judgment is not good.


To be partial to the faces of the wicked is not good, nor to deprive the innocent of justice.


“You must not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have sight and perverts the words of the righteous.


“You must not follow a crowd to do evil. You must not testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice.


In greed, they will exploit y’all with deceptive words. Their judgement from of old is not idle, and their destruction is not sleeping.


For such people don’t serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly. By their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.


Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe. The powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.


YHWH says concerning the prophets who lead my people astray—for those who feed their teeth, they proclaim, “Peace!” and whoever doesn’t provide for their mouths, they prepare war against him:


Their liquor is gone. They are promiscuous-promiscuous! And the rulers, y’all love-love shameful ways.


Y’all must not show partiality in judgment. Y’all are to listen to the small and the great alike. Y’all must not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is God’s. If a case is too hard for y’all, y’all may bring to me, and I will hear it.”





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