the Week of Proper 6 / Ordinary 11
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Chinese NCV (Simplified)
箴言 28:21
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看 人 的 情 面 乃 为 不 好 ； 人 因 一 块 饼 枉 法 也 为 不 好 。
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
respect: Proverbs 18:5, Proverbs 24:23, Exodus 23:2, Exodus 23:8
for: Erasmus observes that this expression probably originated from the circumstance of holding out a piece of bread to a dog, in order to soothe him. Ezekiel 13:19, Hosea 4:18, Micah 3:5, Micah 7:3, Romans 16:18, 2 Peter 2:3
Reciprocal: Judges 18:4 - hired me Isaiah 29:21 - and turn Amos 2:7 - pant Mark 14:11 - and promised James 2:1 - with
Cross-References
The Lord gives me strength and makes me sing; he has saved me. He is my God, and I will praise him. He is the God of my ancestors, and I will honor him.
Today you have said that the Lord is your God, and you have promised to do what he wants you to do—to keep his rules, commands, and laws. You have said you will obey him.
I will give you as a burnt offering the first thing that comes out of my house to meet me when I return from the victory. It will be the Lord 's."
while I was living in Geshur in Aram. I said, ‘If the Lord takes me back to Jerusalem, I will worship him in Hebron.'"
Mephibosheth, Saul's grandson, also went down to meet King David. Mephibosheth had not cared for his feet, cut his beard, or washed his clothes from the time the king had left Jerusalem until he returned safely.
Mephibosheth said to the king, "Let Ziba take all the land now that my master the king has arrived safely home."
Then Naaman said, "If you won't take the gift, then please give me some soil—as much as two of my mules can carry. From now on I'll not offer any burnt offering or sacrifice to any other gods but the Lord .
Gill's Notes on the Bible
To have respect of persons [is] not good, c, In courts of judicature, to give a cause or pass sentence in favour of a person, because he is rich, or is a relation, a friend, an acquaintance, or has done a kindness and against another, because of the reverse, Leviticus 19:15; nor in religious assemblies, making a difference between the rich and the poor, James 2:1; this is not good in itself, nor productive of good effects, and cannot be well pleasing to God, who himself is no respecter of persons;
for for a piece of bread [that] man will transgress; the laws of God and men; having used himself to such unrighteous methods of proceeding, he will do any base action for a small gain, he will stick at nothing, and do it for anything; as Cato used to say of M. Coelius the tribune,
"that he might be hired, for a morsel of bread, to speak or hold his peace;''
see Ezekiel 13:19.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Dishonest partiality leads men who have enslaved themselves to it to transgress, even when the inducement is altogether disproportionate. A âpiece of breadâ was proverbial at all times as the most extreme point of poverty (compare the marginal reference).
