Respect of Persons

Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• Proverbs 24:23 OT

  These also are sayings of the wise. To show partiality in judgment is not good.

• Proverbs 28:21 OT

  To show partiality is not good; yet a man will do wrong for a piece of bread.

• James 2:1-9 NT

  My brothers, don’t hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory with partiality. For if a man with a gold ring, in fine clothing, comes into your synagogue, and a poor man in filthy clothing also comes in, and you pay special attention…

• Deuteronomy 10:17 OT

  For Yahweh your God, he is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the awesome, who doesn’t respect persons or take bribes.

• 2 Chronicles 19:7 OT

  Now therefore let the fear of Yahweh be on you. Take heed and do it; for there is no iniquity with Yahweh our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of bribes.”

• Job 31:13-15 OT

  “If I have despised the cause of my male servant or of my female servant, when they contended with me, what then will I do when God rises up? When he visits, what will I answer him? Didn’t he who made me in the womb make him? Didn’t one…

• Job 34:19 OT

  He doesn’t respect the persons of princes, nor respect the rich more than the poor; for they all are the work of his hands.

• Acts 10:34 NT

  Peter opened his mouth and said, “Truly I perceive that God doesn’t show favoritism;

• Acts 15:9 NT

  He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.

• Romans 2:11 NT

  For there is no partiality with God.

• Romans 2:12 NT

  For as many as have sinned without the law will also perish without the law. As many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

• Romans 10:12 NT

  For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, and is rich to all who call on him.

• Ephesians 6:8 NT

  knowing that whatever good thing each one does, he will receive the same good again from the Lord, whether he is bound or free.

• Ephesians 6:9 NT

  You masters, do the same things to them, and give up threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with him.

• Colossians 3:25 NT

  But he who does wrong will receive again for the wrong that he has done, and there is no partiality.

• 1 Peter 1:17 NT

  If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man’s work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear,