Proverbs 18:5

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What does Proverbs 18:5 mean?

Proverbs 18:5 in the original Hebrew

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Cross references for Proverbs 18:5

• Leviticus 19:15

  Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.

• Deuteronomy 16:19

  Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.

• Proverbs 28:21

  To have respect of persons is not good: for for a piece of bread that man will transgress.

• Psalms 82:2

  How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.

• Proverbs 17:15

  He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the Lord.

• Proverbs 24:23

  These things also belong to the wise. It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment.

• Isaiah 5:23

  Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!

• Matthew 22:16

  And they sent out unto him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, Master, we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God in truth, neither carest thou for any man: for thou regardest not the person of men.

• Deuteronomy 1:16-17

  And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him. Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God’s: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it.

• 1 Kings 21:9-14

  And she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people: And set two men, sons of Belial, before him, to bear witness against him, saying, Thou didst blaspheme God and the king. And then carry him out, and stone him, that he may die. And the men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who were the inhabitants in his city, did as Jezebel had sent unto them, and as it was written in the letters which she had sent unto them. They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people. …

• Job 34:19

  How much less to him that accepteth not the persons of princes, nor regardeth the rich more than the poor? for they all are the work of his hands.

• Job 13:7-8

  Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him? Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?

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Context

• Proverbs 18:4

  The words of a man’s mouth are as deep waters, and the wellspring of wisdom as a flowing brook.

• Proverbs 18:5

  It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment.

• Proverbs 18:6

  A fool’s lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes.

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