Job 31:13

Therefore select from among you, brothers, seven men of good report, full of the Holy Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.

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

The land of Egypt is before you. Make your father and your brothers dwell in the best of the land. Let them dwell in the land of Goshen. If you know any able men among them, then put them in charge of my livestock.”

He said, “Put your hand inside your cloak again.” He put his hand inside his cloak again, and when he took it out of his cloak, behold, it had turned again as his other flesh.

These are those who were called of the congregation, the princes of the tribes of their fathers; they were the heads of the thousands of Israel.

If they blow just one, then the princes, the heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves to you.

Take wise men of understanding who are respected among your tribes, and I will make them heads over you.”

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

His flesh will be fresher than a child’s. He returns to the days of his youth.

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.

Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.

Don’t exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don’t crush the needy in court;

There were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed, except Naaman, the Syrian.”

He said to the elders, “Wait here for us, until we come again to you. Behold, Aaron and Hur are with you. Whoever is involved in a dispute can go to them.”

He shall sprinkle on him who is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird go into the open field.

You shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God; for I am Yahweh your God.

As a servant hired year by year shall he be with him. He shall not rule with harshness over him in your sight.

You shall not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, nor take a widow’s clothing in pledge;

Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, “Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall come again to you, and you shall be clean.”

God who is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself against him and prospered?

“With God is wisdom and might. He has counsel and understanding.

For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, Neither has he hidden his face from him; but when he cried to him, he heard.

You call me, ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord.’ You say so correctly, for so I am.

However, if you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.

Joseph said to them the third day, “Do this, and live, for I fear God.

Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel, when they give the offering of Yahweh, to make atonement for your souls.

“ ‘You shall do no injustice in judgment. You shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness.

“ ‘If your brother has grown poor among you, and sells himself to you, you shall not make him to serve as a slave.

Moses said to the judges of Israel, “Everyone kill his men who have joined themselves to Baal Peor.”

Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as Yahweh my God commanded me, that you should do so in the middle of the land where you go in to possess it.

Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, “Hear, Israel, the statutes and the ordinances which I speak in your ears today, that you may learn them, and observe to do them.”

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.

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.

‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

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

Absalom said to him, “Behold, your matters are good and right; but there is no man deputized by the king to hear you.”

The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spoke to me, ‘One who rules over men righteously, who rules in the fear of God,

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.”

We can’t reach the Almighty. He is exalted in power. In justice and great righteousness, he will not oppress.

Turn my heart toward your statutes, not toward selfish gain.

For though Yahweh is high, yet he looks after the lowly; but he knows the proud from afar.

Great is our Lord, and mighty in power. His understanding is infinite.

Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.

If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don’t marvel at the matter, for one official is eyed by a higher one, and there are officials over them.

They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excel in deeds of wickedness. They don’t plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don’t defend the rights of the needy.

God has made the earth by his power. He has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched out the heavens.

he who hasn’t lent to them with interest, hasn’t taken any increase from them, who has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has executed true justice between man and man,

You haven’t strengthened the diseased. You haven’t healed that which was sick. You haven’t bound up that which was broken. You haven’t brought back that which was driven away. You haven’t sought that which was lost, but you have ruled over them with force and with rigor.

I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.

Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

Jesus stretched out his hand, and touched him, saying, “I want to. Be made clean.” Immediately his leprosy was cleansed.

the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.

He stretched out his hand, and touched him, saying, “I want to. Be made clean.” Immediately the leprosy left him.

“As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them.

saying, “There was a judge in a certain city who didn’t fear God, and didn’t respect man.

For there is no partiality with God.

We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

to the assembly of God which is at Corinth—those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints, with all who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours:

Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?

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

Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah will have a son.”

He said, “Don’t lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.”

He said, ‘Now lift up your eyes, and behold, all the male goats which leap on the flock are streaked, speckled, and grizzled, for I have seen all that Laban does to you.

When they have a matter, they come to me, and I judge between a man and his neighbor, and I make them know the statutes of God, and his laws.”

Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men which fear God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

“If a man strikes his servant’s eye, or his maid’s eye, and destroys it, he shall let him go free for his eye’s sake.

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

You shall not rule over him with harshness, but shall fear your God.

You may make them an inheritance for your children after you, to hold for a possession. Of them you may take your slaves forever, but over your brothers the children of Israel you shall not rule, one over another, with harshness.

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.”

He will appoint them to him for captains of thousands, and captains of fifties; and he will assign some to plow his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and the instruments of his chariots.

It will happen, as soon as I leave you, that Yahweh’s Spirit will carry you I don’t know where; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he can’t find you, he will kill me. But I, your servant, have feared Yahweh from my youth.

Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God; and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.

Now the king was talking with Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying, “Please tell me all the great things that Elisha has done.”

Also I said, “The thing that you do is not good. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?

I put my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the governor of the fortress, in charge of Jerusalem; for he was a faithful man, and feared God above many.

“Behold, I will answer you. In this you are not just, for God is greater than man.

“Behold, God is mighty, and doesn’t despise anyone. He is mighty in strength of understanding.

In rebellion, a land has many rulers, but order is maintained by a man of understanding and knowledge.

The righteous care about justice for the poor. The wicked aren’t concerned about knowledge.

and I brought them into Yahweh’s house, into the room of the sons of Hanan the son of Igdaliah, the man of God, which was by the room of the princes, which was above the room of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the threshold.

who has withdrawn his hand from the poor, who hasn’t received interest or increase, has executed my ordinances, has walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father. He shall surely live.

A prophet watches over Ephraim with my God. A fowler’s snare is on all of his paths, and hostility in the house of his God.

and they didn’t know until the flood came, and took them all away, so will the coming of the Son of Man be.

When he saw them, he said to them, “Go and show yourselves to the priests.” As they went, they were cleansed.

He wouldn’t for a while, but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God, nor respect man,

Now he said this, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and having the money box, used to steal what was put into it.

Be of the same mind one toward another. Don’t set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don’t be wise in your own conceits.

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.

Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.

Let’s consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,