the Week of Proper 14 / Ordinary 19
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Proverbs 28:21
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It is not good to show partiality—yet even a courageous person may sin for a piece 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: for for a piece of bread that man will transgress.
To show partiality is not good, but for a piece of bread a man will do wrong.
To show partiality is not good, Because for a piece of bread a man will do wrong.
It is not good for a judge to take sides, but some will sin for only a piece of bread.
To have regard for one person over another and to show favoritism is not good, Because for a piece of bread a man will transgress.
To show partiality is not good; Yet a man will do wrong for a piece of bread.
To haue respect of persons is not good: for that man will transgresse for a piece of bread.
To show partiality is not good,Even for a piece of bread a man will transgress.
To show partiality is not good, because a man may sin for a piece of bread.
It isn't right to be unfair, but some people can be bribed with only a piece of bread.
To show partiality is not good, though a person may do wrong for a crust of bread.
To have respect of persons is not good; but for a piece of bread will a man transgress.
It is wrong for a judge to support someone simply because he knows them. But some judges will change their decisions for the price of a loaf of bread.
A man who shows partiality is not good; for a piece of bread a man will become a traitor.
Prejudice is wrong. But some judges will do wrong to get even the smallest bribe.
Showing partiality is not good, and over a morsel of bread, a strong man will do wrong.
To respect faces is not good, yea, for a man will transgress for a piece of bread.
To haue respecte of personnes in iudgment is not good: And why? he will do wronge, yee euen for a pece of bred.
To have respect of persons is not good; Neither that a man should transgress for a piece of bread.
It is not good to have respect for a man's position: for a man will do wrong for a bit of bread.
To have respect of persons is not good; for a man will transgress for a piece of bread.
To haue respect of persons, is not good: for, for a piece of bread that man will transgresse.
To haue respect of persons [in iudgement] is not good, for that man wyll do wrong, yea euen for a peece of bread.
A hearth for coals, and wood for fire; and railing man for the tumult of strife.
To have respect of persons is not good: neither that a man should transgress for a piece of bread.
He that knowith a face in doom, doith not wel; this man forsakith treuthe, yhe, for a mussel of breed.
To have respect of persons is not good; Neither that a [noble] man should transgress for a piece of bread.
To have respect of persons [is] not good: for, for a piece of bread [that] man will transgress.
To show partiality is terrible, for a person will transgress over the smallest piece of bread.
To show partiality is not good, Because for a piece of bread a man will transgress.
Showing partiality is never good, yet some will do wrong for a mere piece of bread.
To show favor is not good, because a man will sin for a piece of bread.
To show partiality is not good— yet for a piece of bread a person may do wrong.
To take note of faces in judgment , is not good, and, for a bit of bread, a man will transgress.
He that hath respect to a person in judgment, doth not well: such a man even for a morsel of bread forsaketh the truth.
To show partiality is not good; but for a piece of bread a man will do wrong.
To discern faces is not good, And for a piece of bread doth a man transgress.
Playing favorites is always a bad thing; you can do great harm in seemingly harmless ways.
To show partiality is not good, Because for a piece of bread a man will transgress.
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
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 “piece of bread” was proverbial at all times as the most extreme point of poverty (compare the marginal reference).
