“To be partial to the faces of the wicked is not good, nor to deprive the innocent of justice.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Proverbs 18 contains 24 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.