21To show partiality is not good- yet a man will do wrong for a piece of bread.


In Context

18 He whose walk is blameless is kept safe, but he whose ways are perverse will suddenly fall.

19 He who works his land will have abundant food, but the one who chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty.

20 A faithful man will be richly blessed, but one eager to get rich will not go unpunished.

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

22 A stingy man is eager to get rich and is unaware that poverty awaits him.

23 He who rebukes a man will in the end gain more favor than he who has a flattering tongue.

Proverbs 28:21 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

28:21To have respect of persons [is] not good: for for a piece of bread [that] man will transgress.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

28:21He that hath respect to a person in judgment, doth not well: such a man even for a morsel of bread forsaketh the truth.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

28:21To have respect of persons is not good; Neither that a man should transgress for a piece of bread.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

28:21To have respect of persons is not good; but for a piece of bread will a man transgress.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

28:21To have respect of persons is not good: neither that a man should transgress for a piece of bread.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

28:21To have respect of persons is not good: for, for a piece of bread that man will transgress.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

28:21To show partiality is not good; yet a man will do wrong for a piece of bread.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

28:21To discern faces is not good, And for a piece of bread doth a man transgress.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

28:21To have respect of persons is not good: for for a piece of bread that man will transgress.