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To show partiality is not good; Yet a man will do wrong for a piece of bread.
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The Sin of Partiality
Commentators explain that “respect of persons” means showing partiality or favoritism. John Gill provides concrete examples, such as a judge favoring a rich person in court or a church giving preferential treatment based on social status, a practice condemned in James 2. Matthew Henry puts it simply: judgment is perverted whenever anything besides “pure right” is considered.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Dishonest partiality leads men who have enslaved themselves to it to transgress, even when the inducement is altogether disproportionate. A “piece …
19th Century
Anglican
For, for a piece of bread.— A thing proverbially of little value. ().
That man will transgress.—<…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
To have respect of persons [is] not good, &c , In courts of judicature, to give a cause or pass sentence in favour o…
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Judgment is perverted when anything but pure right is considered.
