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Deuteronomy 1:17
You are not to show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike. You are not to be afraid of any person, for the judgment is God’s. The case that is too difficult for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.’
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Proverbs 24:23
These also are sayings of the wise: To show partiality in judgment is not good.
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Leviticus 19:35
‘ You shall do no wrong in judgment, in measurement of weight, or volume.
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Deuteronomy 16:19
You shall not distort justice, you shall not show partiality; and you shall not accept a bribe, because a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and distorts the words of the righteous.
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Exodus 23:6-8
“ You shall not pervert the justice due to your needy brother in his dispute.Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent or the righteous, for I will not acquit the guilty.“ You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear sighted and subverts the cause of the just.
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Exodus 23:2-3
You shall not follow the crowd in doing evil, nor shall you testify in a dispute so as to join together with a crowd in order to pervert justice;nor shall you show favor to a poor person in his dispute.
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Psalms 82:2
How long will you judge unjustly And show partiality to the wicked? Selah
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James 2:6-9
But you have dishonored the poor man. Is it not the rich who oppress you and personally drag you into court?Do they not blaspheme the good name by which you have been called?If, however, you are fulfilling the royal law according to the Scripture,“ You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the Law as violators.
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Deuteronomy 27:19
‘ Cursed is one who distorts the justice due a stranger, an orphan, or a widow.’ And all the people shall say,‘ Amen.’
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Deuteronomy 25:13-16
“ You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a large and a small.You shall not have in your house differing measures, a large and a small.You shall have a correct and honest weight; you shall have a correct and honest measure, so that your days may be prolonged in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.For everyone who does these things, everyone who acts unjustly is an abomination to the Lord your God.
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Proverbs 18:5
To show partiality to the wicked is not good, Nor to suppress the righteous in judgment.
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2 Chronicles 19 6-2 Chronicles 19 7
He said to the judges,“ Consider what you are doing, for you do not judge for mankind but for the Lord who is with you when you render judgment.Now then, let the fear of the Lord be upon you; be careful about what you do, for the Lord our God will have no part in injustice or partiality, or in the taking of a bribe.”
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Exodus 18:21
Furthermore, you shall select out of all the people able men who fear God, men of truth, those who hate dishonest gain; and you shall place these over them as leaders of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens.