Proverbs 28:21
To show partiality is not good, yet a man will do wrong for a piece of bread.
To have respect of persons is not good: for for a piece of bread that man will transgress.
To show partiality is not good, yet a man will do wrong for a piece of bread.
To have respect of persons is not good; Neither that a man should transgress for a piece of bread.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- respect
- Proverbs 18:5; Proverbs 24:23; Exodus 23:2, 8
- for
- Erasmus observes that this expression probably originated from the circumstance of holding out a piece of bread to a dog, in order to soothe him.
- Ezekiel 13:19; Hosea 4:18; Micah 3:5; Micah 7:3; Romans 16:18; 2 Peter 2:3