You shall not pervert justice due the sojourner or the fatherless, nor take a widow's garment as a pledge.

Cursed is the one who perverts the justice due the sojourner, the fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen!

You shall not follow the majority in doing evil; nor shall you testify in a dispute so as to turn aside after the majority to thrust aside justice.

You shall not thrust aside the justice of your needy one in his dispute.

And you shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and perverts the words of the righteous.

You shall do no injustice in judgment. You shall not be partial to the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty. In righteousness you shall judge your neighbor.

But his sons did not walk in his ways; they turned aside after dishonest gain, took bribes, and perverted justice.

Look at me. Witness against me before Jehovah and before His anointed: Whose ox have I taken, or whose donkey have I taken, or whom have I cheated? Whom have I oppressed, or from whose hand have I received any bribe with which to blind my eyes? I will restore it to you.

if I have waved my hand against the fatherless, when I was looking after my help in the gate;

then let my shoulder fall from my back, and let my arm be broken from the joint.

A wicked man accepts a bribe out of the bosom to pervert the ways of justice.

Surely oppression makes a fool out of a wise man; and a bribe destroys the heart.

Learn to do good, seek justice, set straight the oppressor, judge for the orphan, plead for the widow.

Your rulers are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves a bribe, and pursues rewards. They do not judge for the orphan, nor does the cause of the widow come before them.

He who walks righteously and speaks with equity; he who despises the gain of oppressions, who shakes his hands free from holding bribes, who stops his ear from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from seeing evil;

They have grown fat, they gleam. Yes, they surpass the deeds of the wicked; they do not plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may get rich; and they do not judge the right of the needy.

In you they take bribes to shed blood; you take usury and increase; you have made profit from your neighbors by extortion, and have forgotten Me, declares the Lord Jehovah.

Both hands are on evil, to do it well. Both the ruler and the judge ask for a bribe. And the great one speaks the lust of his soul; and they weave it together.

On account of this the law has become feeble, and justice does not continue to go forth. For the wicked surrounds the righteous, so justice goes forth, perverted.

Her rulers within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves, that do not leave the bones till the morning.

The righteous Jehovah is in her midst; He will do no wrong. Every morning He gives His justice to the light; He does not fail, but the unjust knows no shame.

But Paul said to them, They have beaten us publicly, uncondemned, being Romans, and have thrown us into prison. And now do they drive us out secretly? No indeed! Let them come themselves and lead us out.

Then Paul said to him, God will strike you, you whitewashed wall! For you sit to judge me according to the Law, and do you command me to be struck contrary to the Law?

And 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 sojourner.

You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small as well as the great; you shall not be afraid of any man's presence, for the judgment is God's. And any matter that is too hard for you, bring to me, and I will hear it.

for Jehovah your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great Mighty God, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality nor takes a bribe.

Keep yourself far away from a false matter; do not kill the innocent and righteous. For I will not justify the wicked.

And you shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and perverts the words of the righteous.

These things also are to the wise: To show partiality in judgment is not good.

Do not be a witness against your neighbor without cause, nor deceive with your lips.

Then Peter opened his mouth and said: In truth I perceive that God shows no partiality.