Devine Scripture

Exodus 23:2

Exodus chapter 23 · verse 2 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to turn aside after a multitude to wrest justice:

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to turn aside after a multitude to wrest justice:

Context

v.1Thou shalt not take up a false report: put not thy hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

v.2This passage

v.3neither shalt thou favor a poor man in his cause.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Mark 15:15

    And Pilate, wishing to content the multitude, released unto them Barabbas, and delivered Jesus, when he had scourged him, to be crucified.

  • John 7:50

    Nicodemus saith unto them (he that came to him before, being one of them),

  • Deuteronomy 1:17

    Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; ye shall hear the small and the great alike; 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 ye shall bring unto me, and I will hear it.

  • Exodus 23:6

    Thou shalt not wrest the justice due to thy poor in his cause.

  • Jeremiah 37:21

    Then Zedekiah the king commanded, and they committed Jeremiah into the court of the guard; and they gave him daily a loaf of bread out of the bakers’ street, until all the bread in the city was spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.

  • Proverbs 1:15

    My son, walk not thou in the way with them; Refrain thy foot from their path: