To show partiality is not good; yet a man will do wrong for a piece of bread.
KJV
To have respect of persons is not good: for for a piece of bread that man will transgress.
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Commentary
To have respect of persons is not good, &c. In courts of judicature, to give a cause or pass sentence in favour of a person, because he is rich, or is a relation, a friend, an acquaintance, or has done a kindness; and against another, because of the reverse,
Lev 19:15
; nor in religious assemblies, making a difference between the rich and the poor,
Jam 2:1
; this is not good in itself, nor productive of good effects, and cannot be well pleasing to God, who himself is no respecter of persons;
for for a piece of bread that man will transgress; the laws of God and men; having used himself to such unrighteous methods of proceeding, he will do any base action for a small gain, he will stick at nothing, and do it for anything; as Cato used to say of M. Coelius the tribune,
"that he might be hired, for a morsel of bread, to speak or hold his peace;''
see
Eze 13:19
.
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