Proverbs 28:21 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²¹To have respect of persons is not good: for for a piece of bread that man will transgress.

Proverbs 28:21 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 18:5
It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment.
Ezekiel 13:19
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 24:23
These things also belong to the wise. It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment.
Exodus 23:2
Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:
Exodus 23:8
And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 21)

Note, 1. It is a fundamental error in the administration of justice, and that which cannot but lead men to abundance of transgression, to consider the parties concerned more than the merits of the cause, so as to favour one because he is a gentleman, a scholar, my countryman, my old acquaintance, has formerly done me a kindness, or may do me one, or is of my party and persuasion, and to bear hard…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 21)

21. respect of persons--(Pr 24:23). Such are led to evil by the slightest motive.