Exodus 23:2-3
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2 You shall not follow the crowd in doing wrong. When testifying in a lawsuit, you shall not follow the crowd in perverting justice. 3 You shall not favor the poor in a lawsuit.(A)
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Deuteronomy 1:17
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17 In rendering judgment, do not consider who a person is; give ear to the lowly and to the great alike, fearing no one, for the judgment is God’s. Any case that is too difficult for you bring to me and I will hear it.”
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Deuteronomy 16:19
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19 You must not distort justice: you shall not show partiality;(A) you shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes even of the wise and twists the words even of the just.
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Psalm 82:2
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2 “How long will you judge unjustly
and favor the cause of the wicked?(A)
Selah
Proverbs 24:23
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V. Further Sayings of the Wise[a]
23 These also are Words of the Wise:
To show partiality in judgment is not good.(A)
Footnotes
- 24:23–34
A little collection between the thirty sayings of 22:17–24:22 and the Hezekiah collection in chaps. 25–29. Its title (v. 23) suggests that editors took it as an appendix. At this point, the Greek edition of Proverbs begins to arrange the later sections of the book in a different order than the Hebrew edition.
An editor has arranged originally separate sayings into two parallel groups.
I. II. Conduct in court: Judges (vv. 24–25) Witnesses (v. 28) Speaking, thinking: Good speech (v. 26) Bad speech (v. 29) Wisdom in work: Positive (v. 27) Negative (vv. 30–34)
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