Proverbs 28:21 Cross References - LEB

²¹ _⌊Showing partiality_⌋* is not good, and over a morsel of bread, a strong man will do wrong.

² You will not _⌊follow_⌋* a majority* for evil, and you will not testify concerning a legal dispute to turn aside after a majority* to pervert justice.

⁸ And you will not take a bribe, because the bribe makes the sighted blind and ruins the words of the righteous.

⁵ Being partial to faces of evil is not good, nor to subvert the righteous at the judgment.

²³ These sayings are also for the wise: _⌊Partiality_⌋* in judgment is not good.

¹⁹ And you defiled me among my people for a handful of barley and for morsels of bread to kill persons who should not die and to keep alive persons who should not live by means of your lies to my people who are listening to your lies." '*

¹⁸ When their drinking has ended, they surely indulge in sexual orgies. They love lewdness more than their* glory.

⁵ Thus says Yahweh concerning the prophets who are leading my people astray, who are biting with their teeth and proclaim, "Peace," but whoever puts nothing into their mouths they declare war against.

³ Their hands are upon evil, to do it well; the official and the judge ask for the bribe, and the great man utters the evil desire of his soul; and they weave it together.

¹⁸ For such people do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own stomach, and by smooth speech and flattery they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting.

³ And in greediness they will exploit you with false words, whose condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.