Proverbs 28:21

Authorized King James Version

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

— Proverbs 28:21, Authorized King James Version

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Proverbs 28 — Context

18

¶ Whoso 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 afterwards shall find more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue.

24

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