Proverbs 28:21 - English Standard Version 2016

²¹ To show partiality is not good, but for a piece of bread a man will do wrong.

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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 shall not fall in with the many to do evil, nor shall you bear witness in a lawsuit, siding with the many, so as to pervert justice,

Exodus 23:8

And you shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and subverts the cause of those who are in the right.

Proverbs 18:5

It is not good to be partial to the wicked or to deprive the righteous of justice.

Proverbs 24:23

These also are sayings of the wise. Partiality in judging is not good.

Ezekiel 13:19

You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, putting to death souls who should not die and keeping alive souls who should not live, by your lying to my people, who listen to lies.

Hosea 4:18

When their drink is gone, they give themselves to whoring; their rulers dearly love shame.

Micah 3:5

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 him who puts nothing into their mouths.

Micah 7:3

Their hands are on what is evil, to do it well; the prince and the judge ask for a bribe, and the great man utters the evil desire of his soul; thus they weave it together.

Romans 16:18

For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.

Deuteronomy 1:17

You shall not be partial in judgment. You shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be intimidated by anyone, for the judgment is God’s. And the case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.’

2 Peter 2:3

And in their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.