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Proverbs 28:21

Proverbs 28:21
To have respect of persons is not good: for for a piece of bread that man will transgress.

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Gill's ExpositionBaptist theologian, 1697–1771

To have respect of persons is not good, &c. In courts of judicature, to give a cause or pass sentence in favour of a…

Barnes' NotesPresbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Dishonest partiality leads men who have enslaved themselves to it to transgress, even when the inducement is altogether…

Matthew HenryNonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Note, 1. It is a fundamental error in the administration of justice, and that which cannot but lead men to abundance of…

Cambridge BibleAcademic commentary, 1882–1921

For … that man will transgress Or, Neither that a man should transgress, R.V. The rendering of A.V., however, which is…