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Proverbs 28:21

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¶ To have respect of persons [is] not good: for for a piece of bread [that] man will transgress.

To have respect {H5234} of persons {H6440} is not good {H2896}: for for a piece {H6595} of bread {H3899} that man {H1397} will transgress {H6586}.

To show partiality is not good, though a person may do wrong for a crust of bread.

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

To have respect of persons is not good; Neither that a man should transgress for a piece of bread.

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Cross-References

  • Proverbs 24:23 (6 votes)

    ¶ These [things] also [belong] to the wise. [It is] not good to have respect of persons in judgment.

  • Ezekiel 13:19 (6 votes)

    And will ye pollute 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?

  • Proverbs 18:5 (6 votes)

    ¶ [It is] not good to accept the person of the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment.

  • Exodus 23:8 (3 votes)

    And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

  • Exodus 23:2 (3 votes)

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

  • Micah 3:5 (2 votes)

    Thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.

  • 2 Peter 2:3 (2 votes)

    ¶ And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.