2 Chronicles 19:7 Cross References - Thomson

⁷ Now therefore let the fear of the Lord be upon you. Keep watch and do your duty; for with the Lord our God there is no injustice, nor respect of persons, nor taking of bribes.

²⁵ Thou canst not do such a thing as this to slay the righteous with the wicked. Shall the righteous be as the wicked? No, no; Thou who judgest the whole earth; wilt not thou execute judgment?

¹⁸ And on the third day he said to them, Do this and live; for I fear God.

²¹ but look out for thyself from among all the people, for able, pious men, men of integrity who hate pride; and set these over them as rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, and rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens; ²² and let them administer justice to the people on all occasions: and the matter which is too high for them, they shall lay before thee; but causes easily determined they themselves shall decide. Thus they will remove a burden from thee and help thee.

²⁵ And when Moses had chosen able men from among all Israel and made them rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, and rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens, ²⁶ with orders to administer justice to the people on all occasions, and that they should lay before him the matter which was too high for them; but the causes easily determined they themselves should decide;

⁸ Bribes thou shalt not receive, for they blind the eyes of them who see, and pervert judgment.

¹⁷ For the Lord your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords; the God, great, and mighty, and awful. He respecteth not persons, nor taketh a bribe. ¹⁸ He administereth justice to the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.

¹⁸ Thou shalt appoint for thyself judges, and promulgators of the law, in the cities which the Lord thy God giveth thee, in every tribe. And they shall administer just judgment to the people. ¹⁹ They shall not wrest judgment, nor respect persons, nor shall they receive a gift. For gifts blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.

⁴ He is God, his works are perfect; All his ways are acts of judgment; A faithful God; he doth no injustice; Righteous and holy is the Lord.

¹⁵ those daily allowances with which they who were before me had loaded them, and which they had exacted from them in bread and wine, to the amount at least of forty didrachms of silver. They indeed who had been displaced, tyrannised over the people; but as for me I did not do so; because I feared God.

¹⁹ Who hath no respect for the person of an honourable man; nor knoweth how to honour nobles by respecting their persons."

²³ The chiefs are rebellious; associates of thieves: they love gifts; they seek rewards: to orphans they do not administer justice; and to the cause of widows they do not attend. ²⁴ Therefore thus saith the sovereign Lord of hosts. "Alas for the rulers of Israel; for my wrath against these adversaries shall not abate. On these enemies of mine I will execute judgment: ²⁵ and I will bring my hand over thee, and purify thee with fire. Them who are disobedient I will destroy; and I will take away from thee all transgressors, ²⁶ and establish thy judges as at the first: and thy counsellors as at the beginning: and after these things thou shalt be called The city of Righteousness, the faithful metropolis, Sion.

¹⁵ He who is walking in righteousness, speaking of a straight way; who hateth iniquity and injustice; who shaketh his hands from bribes; who stoppeth his ears that he may not hear a bloody sentence; who shutteth his eyes against the appearance of injustice:

³ they are preparing their hands for evil. The chief asketh and the judge hath spoken words of peace! He is entirely at his devotion;

¹⁶ So they send to him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, Teacher, We know that thou art true and teachest the way of God truly, and carest for no one. For thou respectest not the persons of men.

³⁴ Then Peter opened his mouth and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is not a respecter of persons;

¹¹ For with God there is no respect of persons.

⁵ If then our unrighteousness established the righteousness of God, what shall we say, Is not God unjust who taketh vengeance? I speak as a man. ⁶ No, by no means. In that case, how shall God judge the world?

¹⁴ What then shall we say"? Is there injustice with God? No by no means.

⁶ And with regard to those in high repute [what they were formerly doth not concern me: God accepteth not man's person; for these men of repute added nothing to me;

⁹ And you, masters, observe the same conduct towards them, abating your threats, knowing that you yourselves have a master in heaven, and that with him there is no respect of persons.

²⁵ and he who doth wrong shall receive according to the wrong he hath done. There is no respect of persons.

¹⁷ And since you invoke, as father, him who without respect of persons judgeth every one according to his work, pass the time of your sojourning in fear;