Primary Verses:

1. Lev. 19:15

   • "Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour."

2. Deut. 1:16-17

   • "And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him.  Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it."

Supporting Verses:

3. Deut. 16:18-20

   • "Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which YHVH thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.  Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.  That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which YHVH thy God giveth thee."

4. Deut. 25:1-3

   • "If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.  And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number.  Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee."

5. 2 Chron. 19:5-7

   • "And he set judges in the land throughout all the fenced cities of Judah, city by city,  And said to the judges, Take heed what ye do: for ye judge not for man, but for YHVH, who is with you in the judgment.  Wherefore now let the fear of YHVH be upon you; take heed and do it: for there is no iniquity with YHVH our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of gifts."

6. Prov. 31:9

   • "Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy."

7. Jer. 22:3

   • "Thus saith YHVH; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place."