You shall not follow a majority in wrongdoing; when you bear witness in a lawsuit, you shall not side with the majority so as to pervert justice;
Proverbs 28:21 - New Revised Standard Version To show partiality is not good— yet for a piece of bread a person may do wrong. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 To have respect of persons is not good: For for a piece of bread that man will transgress. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition To have respect of persons and to show partiality is not good, neither is it good that man should transgress for a piece of bread. American Standard Version (1901) To have respect of persons is not good; Neither that a man should transgress for a piece of bread. Common English Bible Those who show favoritism aren’t good; people do wrong for a crust of bread. Catholic Public Domain Version Whoever shows favoritism in judgment does not do well; even if it is for a morsel of bread, he forsakes the truth. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version He that hath respect to a person in judgment, doth not well: such a man even for a morsel of bread forsaketh the truth. |
You shall not follow a majority in wrongdoing; when you bear witness in a lawsuit, you shall not side with the majority so as to pervert justice;
You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds the officials, and subverts the cause of those who are in the right.
It is not right to be partial to the guilty, or to subvert the innocent in judgment.
These also are sayings of the wise: Partiality in judging is not good.
You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, putting to death persons who should not die and keeping alive persons who should not live, by your lies to my people, who listen to lies.
When their drinking is ended, they indulge in sexual orgies; they love lewdness more than their glory.
Thus says the Lord concerning the prophets who lead my people astray, who cry “Peace” when they have something to eat, but declare war against those who put nothing into their mouths.
Their hands are skilled to do evil; the official and the judge ask for a bribe, and the powerful dictate what they desire; thus they pervert justice.
For such people do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the simple-minded.
You must not be partial in judging: hear out the small and the great alike; you shall not be intimidated by anyone, for the judgment is God's. Any case that is too hard for you, bring to me, and I will hear it.”
And in their greed they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation, pronounced against them long ago, has not been idle, and their destruction is not asleep.