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Tuesday, November 26th, 2024
the Week of Christ the King / Proper 29 / Ordinary 34
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Proverbs 18:5

To show respect to the wicked person is not good, Nor to push aside and deprive the righteous of justice.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - False Teachers;   Justice;   The Topic Concordance - Judgment;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Judge;   Respect of Persons;  

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
It is not right to acquit the guilty or deny justice to the innocent.
Update Bible Version
To respect the person of the wicked is not good, [Nor] to turn aside the righteous in judgment.
New Century Version
It is not good to honor the wicked or to be unfair to the innocent.
New English Translation
It is terrible to show partiality to the wicked, by depriving a righteous man of justice.
Webster's Bible Translation
[It is] not good to accept the person of the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment.
World English Bible
To be partial to the faces of the wicked is not good, Nor to deprive the innocent of justice.
English Standard Version
It is not good to be partial to the wicked or to deprive the righteous of justice.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
It is not good to take the persoone of a wickid man in doom, that thou bowe awei fro the treuthe of dom.
English Revised Version
To accept the person of the wicked is not good, nor to turn aside the righteous in judgment.
Berean Standard Bible
Showing partiality to the wicked is not good, nor is depriving the innocent of justice.
Contemporary English Version
It's wrong to favor the guilty and keep the innocent from getting justice.
American Standard Version
To respect the person of the wicked is not good, Nor to turn aside the righteous in judgment.
Bible in Basic English
To have respect for the person of the evil-doer is not good, or to give a wrong decision against the upright.
Complete Jewish Bible
It is not good to be partial to the guilty and thus deprive the innocent of justice.
Darby Translation
It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to wrong the righteous in judgment.
Easy-to-Read Version
You must be fair in judging others. It is wrong to favor the guilty and rob the innocent of justice.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
It is not good to respect the person of the wicked, so as to turn aside the righteous in judgment.
King James Version (1611)
It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to ouerthrowe the righteous in iudgement.
New Life Bible
It is not good to favor the sinful, or to keep what is fair from one who is right with God.
New Revised Standard
It is not right to be partial to the guilty, or to subvert the innocent in judgment.
Geneva Bible (1587)
It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to cause ye righteous to fall in iudgement.
George Lamsa Translation
It is not good to respect the person of the wicked, nor to pervert justice against the righteous.
Good News Translation
It is not right to favor the guilty and keep the innocent from receiving justice.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
To prefer a lawless man, is not good, thrusting away the righteous, in judgment.
Douay-Rheims Bible
It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to decline from the truth of judgment.
Revised Standard Version
It is not good to be partial to a wicked man, or to deprive a righteous man of justice.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
It is not good to regarde the person of the vngodly, to ouerthrowe the righteous in iudgement.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
It is not good to accept the person of the ungodly, nor is it holy to pervert justice in judgment.
Christian Standard Bible®
It is not good to show partiality to the guilty,denying an innocent person justice.
Hebrew Names Version
To be partial to the faces of the wicked is not good, Nor to deprive the innocent of justice.
King James Version
It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment.
Lexham English Bible
Being partial to faces of evil is not good, nor to subvert the righteous at the judgment.
Literal Translation
To lift up the face of the wicked is not good, nor to turn aside the righteous in judgment.
Young's Literal Translation
Acceptance of the face of the wicked [is] not good, To turn aside the righteous in judgment.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
It is not good to regarde ye personne of the vngodly, or to put backe ye righteous in iudgmet.
THE MESSAGE
It's not right to go easy on the guilty, or come down hard on the innocent.
New American Standard Bible
To show partiality to the wicked is not good, Nor to suppress the righteous in judgment.
New King James Version
It is not good to show partiality to the wicked, Or to overthrow the righteous in judgment.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
To show partiality to the wicked is not good, Nor to thrust aside the righteous in judgment.
Legacy Standard Bible
To show partiality to the wicked is not good,Nor to thrust aside the righteous in judgment.

Contextual Overview

5To show respect to the wicked person is not good, Nor to push aside and deprive the righteous of justice.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

not: Proverbs 24:23, Proverbs 28:21, Leviticus 19:15, Deuteronomy 1:16, Deuteronomy 1:17, Deuteronomy 16:19, Job 13:7, Job 13:8, Job 34:19, Matthew 22:16

to overthrow: 1 Kings 21:9-14, Isaiah 5:23, Isaiah 59:14, Micah 7:3

Reciprocal: Genesis 4:7 - If thou doest well Nehemiah 5:9 - It is not Psalms 82:2 - accept Psalms 140:4 - overthrow Proverbs 17:26 - to punish 1 Timothy 5:21 - without preferring

Cross-References

Genesis 19:8
"See here, I have two daughters who have not known a man [intimately]; please let me bring them out to you [instead], and you can do as you please with them; only do nothing to these men, because they have in fact come under the shelter of my roof [for protection]."
Genesis 33:10
Jacob replied, "No, please, if now I have found favor in your sight, then accept my gift [as a blessing] from my hand, for I see your face as if I had seen the face of God, and you have received me favorably.
Judges 6:18
"Please do not depart from here until I come back to You, and bring my offering and place it before You." And He said, "I will wait until you return."
Judges 13:15
Then Manoah said to the Angel of the LORD, "Please let us detain you and let us prepare a young goat for you [to eat]."
Judges 19:5
On the fourth day they got up early in the morning, and the Levite prepared to leave; but the girl's father said to his son-in-law, "Strengthen yourself with a piece of bread, and afterward go your way."
Psalms 104:15
And wine which makes the heart of man glad, So that he may make his face glisten with oil, And bread to sustain and strengthen man's heart.
Isaiah 3:1
Listen carefully, the Lord GOD of hosts is removing from Jerusalem and from Judah Both supply and support, the whole supply of bread And the whole supply of water;
Matthew 6:11
-'Give us this day our daily bread.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

[It is] not good to accept the person of the wicked,.... For a judge to have respect to a wicked man in a cause before him, and to favour him, because he is a rich man, or a relation, or he has received some kindness from him; none of these things should have any influence upon him

to overthrow the righteous in judgment: though he may be a poor man and a stranger, and to whom the judge is under no private and personal obligation; yet justice ought to be done without any respect to persons; to do otherwise is not only not good, but very bad, very sinful and criminal; it is contrary to law and justice; it is doing injury to men, and is repugnant to the will of God, and offensive to him, Leviticus 19:15.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 18:5. To accept the person of the wicked — We must not, in judicial cases, pay any attention to a man's riches, influence, friends, offices, &c., but judge the case according to its own merits. But when the wicked rich man opposes and oppresses the poor righteous, then all those things should be utterly forgotten.


 
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