Judges 8:12

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.

Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

They took the two princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb. They killed Oreb at Oreb’s rock, and Zeeb they killed at Zeeb’s wine press, as they pursued Midian. Then they brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon beyond the Jordan.

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

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.

Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, “You rise and fall on us; for as the man is, so is his strength.” Gideon arose, and killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and took the crescents that were on their camels’ necks.

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.”

Yahweh says, “Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom. Don’t let the mighty man glory in his might. Don’t let the rich man glory in his riches.

For there is no partiality with God.

But from those who were reputed to be important—whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; God doesn’t show partiality to man—they, I say, who were respected imparted nothing to me,

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

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,

Didn’t he who made me in the womb make him? Didn’t one fashion us in the womb?

Please don’t let me respect any man’s person, neither will I give flattering titles to any man.

There is no king saved by the multitude of an army. A mighty man is not delivered by great strength.

Nevertheless you shall die like men, and fall like one of the rulers.”

Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, yes, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,

He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.

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.

I returned and saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all.

Even the youths faint and get weary, and the young men utterly fall;

The shepherds will have no way to flee. The leader of the flock will have no escape.

When Zedekiah the king of Judah and all the men of war saw them, then they fled, and went out of the city by night, by the way of the king’s garden, through the gate between the two walls; and he went out toward the Arabah.

haven’t you shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?

Yahweh afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.

Now therefore, restore the man’s wife. For he is a prophet, and he will pray for you, and you will live. If you don’t restore her, know for sure that you will die, you, and all who are yours.”

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.

“If he is poor, and can’t afford so much, then he shall take one male lamb for a trespass offering to be waved, to make atonement for him, and one tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering, and a log of oil;

“ ‘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.

So David received from her hand that which she had brought him. Then he said to her, “Go up in peace to your house. Behold, I have listened to your voice, and have granted your request.”

The battle went hard against Saul, and the archers overtook him; and he was greatly distressed by reason of the archers.

The three sons of Zeruiah were there, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel: and Asahel was as light of foot as a wild gazelle.

For we must die, and are like water spilled on the ground, which can’t be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him.

He who escapes from the sword of Hazael, Jehu will kill; and he who escapes from the sword of Jehu, Elisha will kill.

Yahweh struck the king, so that he was a leper to the day of his death, and lived in a separate house. Jotham, the king’s son was over the household, judging the people of the land.

The battle went hard against Saul, and the archers overtook him; and he was distressed by reason of the archers.

and that whoever would not seek Yahweh, the God of Israel, should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.

Some of the heads of fathers’ households gave into the treasury of the work twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand two hundred minas of silver.

Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel of the wicked?

But the eyes of the wicked will fail. They will have no way to flee. Their hope will be the giving up of the spirit.”

He leads priests away stripped, and overthrows the mighty.

He pours contempt on princes, and loosens the belt of the strong.

Will you show partiality to him? Will you contend for God?

For it hurls at him, and does not spare, as he flees away from his hand.

because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and didn’t go out of the door—

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.

Would your wealth sustain you in distress, or all the might of your strength?

both low and high, rich and poor together.

“Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one to deliver.

He will judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice.

“How long will you judge unjustly, and show partiality to the wicked?”

To be partial to the faces of the wicked is not good, nor to deprive the innocent of justice.

The rich and the poor have this in common: Yahweh is the maker of them all.

Yahweh will enter into judgment with the elders of his people and their leaders: “It is you who have eaten up the vineyard. The plunder of the poor is in your houses.

Yahweh of Armies will stir up a scourge against him, as in the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb. His rod will be over the sea, and he will lift it up like he did against Egypt.

Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky. They chased us on the mountains. They set an ambush for us in the wilderness.

For I will be to Ephraim like a lion, and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I myself will tear in pieces and go away. I will carry off, and there will be no one to deliver.

Flight will perish from the swift; and the strong won’t strengthen his force; neither shall the mighty deliver himself;

They asked him, “Teacher, we know that you say and teach what is right, and aren’t partial to anyone, but truly teach the way of God.

Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can’t be shaken, let’s have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe,

These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts—and their mouth speaks proud things—showing respect of persons to gain advantage.

He causes all, the small and the great, the rich and the poor, and the free and the slave, to be given marks on their right hands, or on their foreheads;

“Therefore thus I will do to you, Israel; because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, Israel.

but into the second the high priest alone, once in the year, not without blood, which he offers for himself, and for the errors of the people.