Proverbs 28:21 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

²¹ It is not good to show partiality   – yet even a courageous person may sin for a piece of bread.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ To have respect of persons is not good: For for a piece of bread that man will transgress.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ 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)

²¹ To have respect of persons is not good; Neither that a man should transgress for a piece of bread.

Common English Bible

²¹ Those who show favoritism aren’t good; people do wrong for a crust of bread.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ 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

²¹ He that hath respect to a person in judgment, doth not well: such a man even for a morsel of bread forsaketh the truth.

Proverbs 28:21 Tagairtí Cros

Exodus 23:2

‘You must not follow a crowd in wrongdoing. Do not testify in a lawsuit and go along with a crowd to pervert justice.

Exodus 23:8

You must not take a bribe,  for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and corrupts the words  of the righteous.

Proverbs 18:5

It is not good to show partiality to the guilty, denying an innocent person justice.

Proverbs 24:23

These sayings also belong to the wise: It is not good to show partiality in judgement.

Ezekiel 13:19

You profane me among my people for handfuls of barley  and scraps of bread; you put those to death who should not die and spare those who should not live, when you lie to my people, who listen to lies.

Hosea 4:18

When their drinking is over, they turn to promiscuity. Israel’s leaders  fervently love disgrace.

Micah 3:5

This is what the  Lord  says concerning the prophets who lead my people astray, who proclaim  peace when they have food to sink their teeth into but declare war against the one who puts nothing in their mouths.

Micah 7:3

Both hands are good  at accomplishing evil: the official and the judge demand a bribe; when the powerful man communicates his evil desire, they plot it together.

Romans 16:18

because such people do not serve our Lord Christ  but their own appetites.  , They deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting with smooth talk and flattering words.

Deuteronomy 1:17

Do not show partiality when deciding a case;  listen to small and great alike. Do not be intimidated by anyone, for judgement belongs to God.  Bring me any case too difficult for you, and I will hear it.

2 Peter 2:3

They will exploit  you in their greed  with made-up stories. Their condemnation,  pronounced long ago, is not idle, and their destruction does not sleep.