21To have respect of persons is not good: for for a piece of bread that man will transgress.
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It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment.
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?
These things also belong to the wise. It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment.
Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:
And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.
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…
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