the Week of Proper 11 / Ordinary 16
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Proverbs 18:5
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It is not good to show partiality to the guilty,denying an innocent person justice.
To be partial to the faces of the wicked is not good, Nor to deprive the innocent of justice.
It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment.
It is not good to be partial to the wicked or to deprive the righteous of justice.
To show partiality to the wicked is not good, Nor to suppress the righteous in judgment.
It is not good to honor the wicked or to be unfair to the innocent.
To show respect to the wicked person is not good, Nor to push aside and deprive the righteous of justice.
To be partial to the faces of the wicked is not good, Nor to deprive the innocent of justice.
It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to cause ye righteous to fall in iudgement.
To show partiality to the wicked is not good,Nor to thrust aside the righteous in judgment.
Showing partiality to the wicked is not good, nor is depriving the innocent of justice.
It's wrong to favor the guilty and keep the innocent from getting justice.
It is not good to be partial to the guilty and thus deprive the innocent of justice.
It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to wrong the righteous in judgment.
You must be fair in judging others. It is wrong to favor the guilty and rob the innocent of justice.
It is not good to respect the person of the wicked, nor to pervert justice against the righteous.
It is not right to favor the guilty and keep the innocent from receiving justice.
Being partial to faces of evil is not good, nor to subvert the righteous at the judgment.
To lift up the face of the wicked is not good, nor to turn aside the righteous in judgment.
It is not good to regarde ye personne of the vngodly, or to put backe ye righteous in iudgmet.
To respect the person of the wicked is not good, Nor to turn aside the righteous in judgment.
To have respect for the person of the evil-doer is not good, or to give a wrong decision against the upright.
It is not good to respect the person of the wicked, so as to turn aside the righteous in judgment.
It is not good to regarde the person of the vngodly, to ouerthrowe the righteous in iudgement.
It is not good to accept the person of the ungodly, nor is it holy to pervert justice in judgment.
To accept the person of the wicked is not good, nor to turn aside the righteous in judgment.
It is not good to take the persoone of a wickid man in doom, that thou bowe awei fro the treuthe of dom.
To respect the person of the wicked is not good, [Nor] to turn aside the righteous in judgment.
[It is] not good to accept the person of the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment.
It is terrible to show partiality to the wicked, by depriving a righteous man of justice.
It is not good to show partiality to the wicked, Or to overthrow the righteous in judgment.
It is not right to acquit the guilty or deny justice to the innocent.
It is not good to favor the sinful, or to keep what is fair from one who is right with God.
It is not right to be partial to the guilty, or to subvert the innocent in judgment.
To prefer a lawless man, is not good, thrusting away the righteous, in judgment.
It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to decline from the truth of judgment.
It is not good to be partial to a wicked man, or to deprive a righteous man of justice.
Acceptance of the face of the wicked [is] not good, To turn aside the righteous in judgment.
It's not right to go easy on the guilty, or come down hard on the innocent.
To show partiality to the wicked is not good, Nor to thrust aside the righteous in judgment.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
not: Proverbs 24:23, Proverbs 28:21, Leviticus 19:15, Deuteronomy 1:16, Deuteronomy 1:17, Deuteronomy 16:19, Job 13:7, Job 13:8, Job 34:19, Matthew 22:16
to overthrow: 1 Kings 21:9-14, Isaiah 5:23, Isaiah 59:14, Micah 7:3
Reciprocal: Genesis 4:7 - If thou doest well Nehemiah 5:9 - It is not Psalms 82:2 - accept Psalms 140:4 - overthrow Proverbs 17:26 - to punish 1 Timothy 5:21 - without preferring
Cross-References
Behold now, I haue two daughters, which haue not knowen man; let mee, I pray you, bring them out vnto you, and doe ye to them, as is good in your eyes: onely vnto these men do nothing: for therefore came they vnder the shadow of my roofe.
And Iacob saide, Nay, I pray thee: if now I haue found grace in thy sight, then receiue my present at my hand: for therefore I haue seene thy face, as though I had seene the face of God; and thou wast pleased with me.
Depart not hence, I pray thee, vntil I come vnto thee, and bring forth my Present, and set it before thee. And hee saide, I will tary vntill thou come againe.
And Manoah saide vnto the Angel of the Lord, I pray thee let vs deteine thee, vntill wee shall haue made ready a kid for thee.
And it came to passe on the fourth day, when they arose earely in the morning, that he rose vp to depart: and the damosels father saide vnto his sonne in lawe, Comfort thine heart with a morsell of bread, and afterward goe your way.
And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oile to make his face to shine: and bread which strengtheneth mans heart.
For behold, the Lord, the Lord of hostes doeth take away from Ierusalem, and from Iudah, the stay and the staffe, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water,
Giue vs this day our daily bread.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
[It is] not good to accept the person of the wicked,.... For a judge to have respect to a wicked man in a cause before him, and to favour him, because he is a rich man, or a relation, or he has received some kindness from him; none of these things should have any influence upon him
to overthrow the righteous in judgment: though he may be a poor man and a stranger, and to whom the judge is under no private and personal obligation; yet justice ought to be done without any respect to persons; to do otherwise is not only not good, but very bad, very sinful and criminal; it is contrary to law and justice; it is doing injury to men, and is repugnant to the will of God, and offensive to him, Leviticus 19:15.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 18:5. To accept the person of the wicked — We must not, in judicial cases, pay any attention to a man's riches, influence, friends, offices, &c., but judge the case according to its own merits. But when the wicked rich man opposes and oppresses the poor righteous, then all those things should be utterly forgotten.