Micah 7:3

I said to them, “If you think it best, give me my wages; and if not, keep them.” So they weighed for my wages thirty pieces of silver.

“If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor. You shall not charge him interest.

They say continually to those who despise me, ‘Yahweh has said, “You will have peace;” ’ and to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart they say, ‘No evil will come on you.’

There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him to whom we must give an account.

May it be far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn’t the Judge of all the earth do right?”

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.

Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?

He uncovers deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death.

For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.

“For from their least even to their greatest, everyone is given to covetousness. From the prophet even to the priest, everyone deals falsely.

he who hasn’t lent to them with interest, hasn’t taken any increase from them, who has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has executed true justice between man and man,

In you have they taken bribes to shed blood. You have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me,” says the Lord Yahweh.

Therefore don’t be afraid of them, for there is nothing covered that will not be revealed; and hidden that will not be known.

For nothing is hidden that will not be revealed; nor anything secret that will not be known and come to light.

Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things.

in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Good News, by Jesus Christ.

each man’s work will be revealed. For the Day will declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will test what sort of work each man’s work is.

For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ that each one may receive the things in the body according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

For it isn’t he who commends himself who is approved, but whom the Lord commends.

Don’t grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won’t be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.

“You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.

“You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have sight and perverts the words of the righteous.

You will betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her. You will build a house, and you won’t dwell in it. You will plant a vineyard, and not use its fruit.

The Rock: his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he.

He will take your fields, your vineyards, and your olive groves, even their best, and give them to his servants.

then let my wife grind for another, and let others sleep with her.

He will not always accuse; neither will he stay angry forever.

When the whirlwind passes, the wicked is no more; but the righteous stand firm forever.

He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the righteous, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.

for they call themselves citizens of the holy city, and rely on the God of Israel; Yahweh of Armies is his name.

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.

Their houses will be turned to others, their fields and their wives together; for I will stretch out my hand on the inhabitants of the land, says Yahweh.”

Don’t trust in lying words, saying, ‘Yahweh’s temple, Yahweh’s temple, Yahweh’s temple, are these.’

They trample on the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and deny justice to the oppressed; and a man and his father use the same maiden, to profane my holy name;

For, behold, Yahweh comes out of his place, and will come down and tread on the high places of the earth.

You who hate the good, and love the evil; who tear off their skin, and their flesh from off their bones;

Yahweh says concerning the prophets who lead my people astray; for those who feed their teeth, they proclaim, “Peace!” and whoever doesn’t provide for their mouths, they prepare war against him:

Don’t oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.’

Jesus said to him, “If I desire that he stay until I come, what is that to you? You follow me.”

For there is no partiality with God.

Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, rest on the law, glory in God,

but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

If the bull gores a male servant or a female servant, thirty shekels of silver shall be given to their master, and the ox shall be stoned.

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

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

“Earth, don’t cover my blood. Let my cry have no place to rest.

You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

“Therefore listen to me, you men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness, from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.

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.

They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.

A wicked man receives a bribe in secret, to pervert the ways of justice.

to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their plunder, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

Yes, the dogs are greedy. They can never have enough. They are shepherds who can’t understand. They have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.

For I will not contend forever, neither will I always be angry; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls whom I have made.

They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money: yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, “Isn’t Yahweh among us? No disaster will come on us.”

If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.

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

who, knowing the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice them.

What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? May it never be!

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

whose mouths must be stopped: men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain’s sake.

You have condemned and you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn’t resist you.

Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not under compulsion, but voluntarily, not for dishonest gain, but willingly;

I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and they opened books. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works.

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

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.”

he who doesn’t lend out his money for usury, nor take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be shaken.

who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice for the innocent!

Therefore I will give their wives to others and their fields to those who will possess them. For everyone from the least even to the greatest is given to covetousness; from the prophet even to the priest everyone deals falsely.

For I know how many your offenses, and how great are your sins— you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn away the needy in the courts.

But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter.

The lords of the Philistines came up to her and said to her, “Entice him, and see in which his great strength lies, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him; and we will each give you eleven hundred pieces of silver.”

Jezebel his wife said to him, “Do you now govern the kingdom of Israel? Arise, and eat bread, and let your heart be merry. I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.”

But as for the mighty man, he had the earth. The honorable man, he lived in it.

if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,

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—

in whose hands is wickedness, their right hand is full of bribes.

When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have participated with adulterers.

One who winks his eyes to plot perversities, one who compresses his lips, is bent on evil.

A bribe is a precious stone in the eyes of him who gives it; wherever he turns, he prospers.

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

for their hearts plot violence and their lips talk about mischief.

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

The king by justice makes the land stable, but he who takes bribes tears it down.

“The leech has two daughters: ‘Give, give.’ “There are three things that are never satisfied; four that don’t say, ‘Enough:’

Moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.

Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes and follows after rewards. They don’t defend the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

For, behold, Yahweh comes out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth also will disclose her blood, and will no longer cover her slain.

“ ‘Will he retain his anger forever? Will he keep it to the end?’ Behold, you have spoken and have done evil things, and have had your way.”

As the partridge that sits on eggs which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right. In the middle of his days, they will leave him. At his end, he will be a fool.

“ ‘ “Behold, the princes of Israel, everyone according to his power, have been in you to shed blood.

Her princes within it are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain.

Their drink has become sour. They play the prostitute continually. Her rulers dearly love their shameful way.

Do horses run on the rocky crags? Does one plow there with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness;

and said, “What are you willing to give me, that I should deliver him to you?” They weighed out for him thirty pieces of silver.

Meanwhile, he also hoped that money would be given to him by Paul, that he might release him. Therefore also he sent for him more often and talked with him.

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.