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Proverbs 28:21

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

Proverbs 28:21 · Webster Bible

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Proverbs 28:21 in other translations

KJV King James Version

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

BSB Berean Standard Bible

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

WEB World English Bible

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

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In context

18 He who walketh uprightly shall be saved: but [he that is] perverse [in his] ways shall fall at once.

19 He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain [persons] shall have poverty enough.

20 A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.

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

22 He that hasteth to be rich [hath] an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him.

23 He that rebuketh a man afterward shall find more favor than he that flattereth with the tongue.

24 He that robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, [It is] no transgression; the same [is] the companion of a destroyer.

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