Proverbs 28:21 - King James 2000

²¹ To show partiality is not good: because for a piece of bread that man will transgress.

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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.

Proverbs 28:21 Tagairtí Cros

Exodus 23:2

You shall not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shall you testify in a dispute to follow after a crowd to pervert judgment:

Exodus 23:8

And you shall take no bribe: for the bribe blinds the wise, and perverts the words of the righteous.

Proverbs 18:5

It is not good to be partial to the wicked, or to overthrow the righteous in judgment.

Proverbs 24:23

These things also belong to the wise. It is not good to have partiality in judgment.

Ezekiel 13:19

And will you profane me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should not die, and to save the souls alive that should not live, by your lying to my people that hear your lies?

Hosea 4:18

Their drink is sour: they have committed harlotry continually: her rulers love shame more than glory.

Micah 3:5

Thus says the LORD: Concerning the prophets who make my people stray, who bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that puts nothing into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.

Micah 7:3

That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asks, and the judge asks for a bribe; and the great man, he utters his evil desire: so they weave it together.

Romans 16:18

For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the innocent.

Deuteronomy 1:17

You shall not respect persons in judgment; but you shall hear the small as well as the great; you shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it.

2 Peter 2:3

And through covetousness shall they with false words exploit you: whose judgment of old now lingers not, and their destruction slumbers not.