Proverbs 28:21 (BSB)

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

From Proverbs 28. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 28:21

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 28:21: Note, 1. It is a fundamental error in the administration of justice, and that which cannot but lead men to abundance of transgression, to consider the parties concerned more than the merits of the cause, so as to favour one because he is a gentleman, a scholar, my countryman, my old acquaintance, has formerly done me a kindness, or may do me one, or is...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 28:21: 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...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 28:21: respect of persons-- (Pro 24:23). Such are led to evil by the slightest motive.
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 28:21: To have respect of persons [is] not good: for for a piece of bread [that] man will transgress. (k) He will be abused for nothing.