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


In Context

18 Whoso is walking uprightly is saved, And the perverted of ways falleth at once.

19 Whoso is tilling his ground is satisfied with bread, And whoso is pursuing vanity, Is filled with poverty.

20 A stedfast man hath multiplied blessings, And whoso is hasting to be rich is not acquitted.

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

22 Troubled for wealth is the man with an evil eye, And he knoweth not that want doth meet him.

23 Whoso is reproving a man afterwards findeth grace, More than a flatterer with the 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 New International Version of the Holy Bible

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

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 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.