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Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• 1 Kings 3:16-28 OT

  Then two women who were prostitutes came to the king, and stood before him. The one woman said, “Oh, my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house. I delivered a child with her in the house. The third day after I delivered, this woman…

• Exodus 23:8 OT

  “You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have sight and perverts the words of the righteous.

• Deuteronomy 16:19 OT

  You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality. You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.

• Job 29:12 OT

  Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him,

• Job 29:16 OT

  I was a father to the needy. I researched the cause of him who I didn’t know.

• 2 Chronicles 19:6 OT

  and said to the judges, “Consider what you do, for you don’t judge for man, but for Yahweh; and he is with you in the judgment.

• Deuteronomy 1:16 OT

  I commanded your judges at that time, saying, “Hear cases between your brothers and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the foreigner who is living with him.

• Deuteronomy 16:18 OT

  You shall make judges and officers in all your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

• Deuteronomy 25:1 OT

  If there is a controversy between men, and they come to judgment and the judges judge them, then they shall justify the righteous and condemn the wicked.

• Exodus 23:6 OT

  “You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.

• Deuteronomy 1:17 OT

  You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is God’s. The case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.”

• Romans 12:8 NT

  or he who exhorts, to his exhorting; he who gives, let him do it with generosity; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.

• Matthew 23:2 NT

  saying, “The scribes and the Pharisees sat on Moses’ seat.

• Matthew 23:3 NT

  All things therefore whatever they tell you to observe, observe and do, but don’t do their works; for they say, and don’t do.

• 1 Peter 2:13 NT

  Therefore subject yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether to the king, as supreme;

• Proverbs 28:15 OT

  As a roaring lion or a charging bear, so is a wicked ruler over helpless people.

• Genesis 41:46 OT

  Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.

• Judges 8:35 OT

  neither did they show kindness to the house of Jerubbaal, that is, Gideon, according to all the goodness which he had shown to Israel.

• 1 Samuel 12:3 OT

  Here I am. Witness against me before Yahweh, and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Whose donkey have I taken? Whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Of whose hand have I taken a bribe to make me blind my eyes? I will…

• 1 Samuel 12:4 OT

  They said, “You have not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither have you taken anything from anyone’s hand.”

• Ezra 10:1-9 OT

  Now while Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before God’s house, there was gathered together to him out of Israel a very great assembly of men and women and children; for the people wept very bitterly.…

• Nehemiah 3:15 OT

  Shallun the son of Colhozeh, the ruler of the district of Mizpah repaired the spring gate. He built it, and covered it, and set up its doors, its bolts, and its bars, and the wall of the pool of Shelah by the king’s garden, even to the…

• Daniel 6:3 OT

  Then this Daniel was distinguished above the presidents and the local governors, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king thought to set him over the whole realm.

• 1 Samuel 8:3 OT

  His sons didn’t walk in his ways, but turned away after dishonest gain, took bribes, and perverted justice.