Justice
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"You shall appoint v judges and officers in all your gates, which the LORD your God gives you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with just judgment.
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w "You shall not pervert justice; x you shall not show partiality, y nor take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous.
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"You shall follow what is altogether just, that you may z live and inherit the land which the LORD your God is giving you.
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Cross References
Exodus 23:1 - 8
You shall not circulate a false report. Do not put your hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
Deuteronomy 1:16
Then I commanded your judges at that time, saying, 'Hear the cases between your brethren, and judge righteously between a man and his brother or the stranger who is with him.
Deuteronomy 1:17
'You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small as well as the great; you shall not be afraid in any man's presence, for the judgment is God's. The case that is too hard for you, bring to me, and I will hear it.'
John 7:24
"Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment."
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Cross References
Exodus 23:2
You shall not follow a crowd to do evil; nor shall you testify in a dispute so as to turn aside after many to pervert justice.
Exodus 23:6
You shall not pervert the judgment of your poor in his dispute.
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 1:17
'You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small as well as the great; you shall not be afraid in any man's presence, for the judgment is God's. The case that is too hard for you, bring to me, and I will hear it.'
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Cross References
Exodus 23:8
And you shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds the discerning and perverts the words of the righteous.
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Cross References
Ezekiel 18:5 - 9
But if a man is just And does what is lawful and right.
New King James Version (NKJV) Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc.