Is it correct to take side if the person is a weaker party who is also wrong? Lets see what the bible says: Favoritism James 2:9 ESV / 117 helpful votes But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors. Acts 10:34 ESV / 72 helpful votes So Peter opened his mouth and said: “Truly I understand that God shows no partiality, Romans 2:11 ESV / 65 helpful votes For God shows no partiality. James 2:1 ESV / 54 helpful votes My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory. Genesis 37:4 ESV / 52 helpful votes But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not speak peacefully to him. James 2:1-26 ESV / 43 helpful votes My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory. For if a man wearing a gold ring and fine clothing comes into your assembly, and a poor man in shabby clothing also comes in, and if you pay attention to the one who wears the fine clothing and say, “You sit here in a good place,” while you say to the poor man, “You stand over there,” or, “Sit down at my feet,” have you not then made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts? Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him? ... Galatians 3:28 ESV / 43 helpful votes There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. Deuteronomy 10:17 ESV 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. James 2:5 ESV / 20 helpful votes Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him? Ephesians 6:9 ESV / 19 helpful votes Masters, do the same to them, and stop your threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and that there is no partiality with him. 2 Chronicles 19:4-7 ESV / 9 helpful votes Jehoshaphat lived at Jerusalem. And he went out again among the people, from Beersheba to the hill country of Ephraim, and brought them back to the Lord, the God of their fathers. He appointed judges in the land in all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city, and said to the judges, “Consider what you do, for you judge not for man but for the Lord. He is with you in giving judgment. Now then, let the fear of the Lord be upon you. Be careful what you do, for there is no injustice with the Lord our God, or partiality or taking bribes.”
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