Partiality

Beginning Scripture

I Timothy 5:21 - I charge you before God and the Lord Jesus Christ and the elect angels that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing with partiality.

Definitions

• Strong's 4346 - Greek "prosklisis" - means "a leaning toward, i.e. (fig.) proclivity (favoritism).
• A favorable bias or predjudice (Dictionary.com, 1)
• The preferring of one person or side more than another (Dictionary.com, 2)
• An inclination of temperament or outlook; especially : a personal and sometimes unreasoned judgment (MiriamWebster.com, 3b)
• Partisan - one exhibiting blind, prejudiced, and unreasoning allegiance (MiriamWebster.com, 1)

Body Scriptures

Deuteronomy 1:16-18 “Then I commanded your judges at that time, saying, ‘Hear the cases between your brethren, and judge righteously between a man and his brother or the stranger who is with him. You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small as well as the great; you shall not be afraid in any man’s presence, for the judgment is God’s. The case that is too hard for you, bring to me, and I will hear it.’ And I commanded you at that time all the things which you should do.