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Exodus 23:2

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Thou shalt not follow a multitude to [do] evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest [judgment]:

Thou shalt not follow {H310} a multitude {H7227} to do evil {H7451}; neither shalt thou speak {H6030} in a cause {H7379} to decline {H5186} after {H310} many {H7227} to wrest {H5186} judgment:

Do not follow the crowd when it does what is wrong; and don't allow the popular view to sway you into offering testimony for any cause if the effect will be to pervert justice.

You shall not follow the crowd in wrongdoing. When you testify in a lawsuit, do not pervert justice by siding with the crowd.

Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to turn aside after a multitude to wrest justice:

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Cross-References

  • Proverbs 1:10 (11 votes)

    ¶ My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.

  • Proverbs 1:11 (11 votes)

    If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:

  • Proverbs 1:15 (9 votes)

    My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:

  • Luke 23:23 (7 votes)

    And they were instant with loud voices, requiring that he might be crucified. And the voices of them and of the chief priests prevailed.

  • Luke 23:24 (7 votes)

    And Pilate gave sentence that it should be as they required.

  • Matthew 27:24 (6 votes)

    When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but [that] rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed [his] hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye [to it].

  • Matthew 27:26 (6 votes)

    ¶ Then released he Barabbas unto them: and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered [him] to be crucified.