Impartiality
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God is impartial
God is impartial
For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who is not partial and takes no bribe.
See also 2 Ch 19:7
Do we begrudge God's generosity?
God treats people impartially
God treats people impartially
so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
See also Job 25:3; Job 34:19; Pr 22:2; Ro 2:11; Eph 6:9
God judges impartially
God judges impartially
For the wrongdoer will be paid back for the wrong he has done, and there is no partiality.
See also Job 34:11–12; Ps 62:12; Je 17:10; Ro 2:9–11; 2 Co 5:10; 1 Pe 1:17; Re 22:12
God does not distinguish between people on the basis of external appearance
God does not distinguish between people on the basis of external appearance
But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the LORD sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on the heart.”
See also Ps 147:10–11; Je 9:25; Lk 16:15; Ga 2:6; Re 2:23
God does not discriminate against different races or classes
God does not discriminate against different races or classes
Ac 10:34–35; Ga 3:28
See also Dt 10:18; Job 34:19; Ac 10:28; Ac 15:7–9
The impartiality of Jesus Christ
The impartiality of Jesus Christ
Jesus Christ’s teaching was impartial
Jesus Christ’s teaching was impartial
So they asked him, “Teacher, we know that you speak and teach rightly, and show no partiality, but truly teach the way of God.
See also Mt 20:1–16 a parable of Jesus Christ about divine impartiality
Jesus Christ showed impartiality in his dealings with people
Jesus Christ showed impartiality in his dealings with people
Jn 4:9 Jesus Christ contravened accepted boundaries of partiality in this encounter.
See also Mt 9:10–12; Mt 15:22–28; Mt 20:20–23
Were you aware the Bible commands that we do not play favortism?
Impartiality commended
Impartiality commended
My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory.
See also Pr 28:21; 1 Co 3:3–4; 1 Co 4:6–7; 1 Ti 5:21; Jas 2:9
Humanity should judge impartially
Humanity should judge impartially
These also are sayings of the wise.
Partiality in judging is not good.
Whoever says to the wicked, “You are in the right,”
will be cursed by peoples, abhorred by nations,
but those who rebuke the wicked will have delight,
and a good blessing will come upon them.
See also Ex 18:16; Dt 1:17; Dt 16:19; Dt 24:17; Pr 17:15; Pr 18:5; Mal 2:9
Showing impartiality to all people is commanded
Showing impartiality to all people is commanded
Impartiality to foreigners
Impartiality to foreigners
“You shall not wrong a sojourner or oppress him, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.
See also Ex 23:9; Le 19:33–34; Nu 15:15–16; Ro 10:12
Impartiality to children
Impartiality to children
“If a man has two wives, the one loved and the other unloved, and both the loved and the unloved have borne him children, and if the firstborn son belongs to the unloved, then on the day when he assigns his possessions as an inheritance to his sons, he may not treat the son of the loved as the firstborn in preference to the son of the unloved, who is the firstborn, but he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the unloved, by giving him a double portion of all that he has, for he is the firstfruits of his strength. The right of the firstborn is his.
Impartiality to the poor
Impartiality to the poor
“You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in his lawsuit.
See also Ex 23:3; Le 19:15; Pr 29:7; Jas 2:2–7
Ways to avoid partiality
Ways to avoid partiality
By not accepting bribes
By not accepting bribes
And you shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and subverts the cause of those who are in the right.
See also Job 36:18; Pr 15:27; Is 1:23
By not following the crowd
By not following the crowd
Ex 23:2; Mk 15:15
Christians should be partial towards spiritual principles
Christians should be partial towards spiritual principles
“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.
See also Mt 12:30; Mt 7:13–14; Mk 9:39–40
Examples where impartiality is absent
Examples where impartiality is absent
Ge 25:27–28 Isaac and Rebekah to Jacob and Esau; Ge 29:30–32 Jacob to Leah and Rachel; Ge 37:3–4 Jacob to Joseph and his brothers; 1 Sa 1:4–6 Elkanah to Hannah and Peninnah