Exodus 23:6
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You shall not wrest the judgment of your poor in his cause.

Exodus 23:2, 3 You shall not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shall you speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment...

Deuteronomy 16:19 You shall not wrest judgment; you shall not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift does blind the eyes of the wise...

Deuteronomy 27:19 Cursed be he that perverts the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.

2 Chronicles 19:7 Why now let the fear of the LORD be on you; take heed and do it: for there is no iniquity with the LORD our God, nor respect of persons...

Job 31:13, 21, 22 If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me...

Psalm 82:3, 4 Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy...

Ecclesiastes 5:8 If you see the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter...

Isaiah 10:1, 2 Woe to them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed...

Jeremiah 5:28 They are waxen fat, they shine: yes, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless...

Jeremiah 6:28 They are all grievous rebels, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters.

Jeremiah 7:6 If you oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place...

Amos 5:11, 12 For as much therefore as your treading is on the poor, and you take from him burdens of wheat: you have built houses of hewn stone...

Micah 3:1-4 And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and you princes of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment...

Zephaniah 3:1-4 Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!...

Malachi 3:5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers...

James 2:5, 6 Listen, my beloved brothers, Has not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith...

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
You must not deny justice to a poor person among you in his lawsuit.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"You shall not pervert the justice due to your needy brother in his dispute.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.

International Standard Version (©2012)
"You are not to pervert justice for the poor among you in their lawsuits.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
You shall not pervert the justice of your poor in his dispute.

American King James Version
You shall not wrest the judgment of your poor in his cause.

American Standard Version
Thou shalt not wrest the justice due to thy poor in his cause.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou shalt not go aside in the poor man's judgment.

Darby Bible Translation
Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of thy poor in his cause.

English Revised Version
Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.

Webster's Bible Translation
Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.

World English Bible
"You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.

Young's Literal Translation
'Thou dost not turn aside the judgment of thy needy one in his strife;

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 23:3 Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.
Leviticus 19:15 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.
1 Samuel 8:3 And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.
Proverbs 18:5 It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment.
Proverbs 22:22 Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
Proverbs 31:5 Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.

You must not deny justice to a poor person among you in his lawsuit. —HCSB

"You shall not pervert the justice [due] to your needy [brother] in his dispute. —NASB

Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause. —KJV


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Cause Decisions Deny Dispute Due Judgment Justice Lawsuits Needy Pervert Poor Strife Suit Turn Wrest Wrong
Exodus Chapter 23 Verse 6

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