出埃及記23:1-9

23:1 「不可隨夥佈散謠言；不可與惡人連手妄作見證。
23:2 不可隨眾行惡；不可在爭訟的事上隨眾偏行，作見證屈枉正直；
23:3 也不可在爭訟的事上偏護窮人。
23:4 「若遇見你仇敵的牛或驢失迷了路，總要牽回來交給他。
23:5 若看見恨你人的驢壓臥在重馱之下，不可走開，務要和驢主一同抬開重馱。
23:6 「不可在窮人爭訟的事上屈枉正直。
23:7 當遠離虛假的事。不可殺無辜和有義的人，因我必不以惡人為義。
23:8 不可受賄賂；因為賄賂能叫明眼人變瞎了，又能顛倒義人的話。
23:9 「不可欺壓寄居的；因為你們在埃及地作過寄居的，知道寄居的心。」

“Do not spread false reports. Do not help a guilty person by being a malicious witness.

² “Do not follow the crowd in doing wrong. When you give testimony in a lawsuit, do not pervert justice by siding with the crowd, ³ and do not show favoritism to a poor person in a lawsuit.
⁴ “If you come across your enemy’s ox or donkey wandering off, be sure to return it. ⁵ If you see the donkey of someone who hates you fallen down under its load, do not leave it there; be sure you help them with it.
⁶ “Do not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits. ⁷ Have nothing to do with a false charge and do not put an innocent or honest person to death, for I will not acquit the guilty.
⁸ “Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds those who see and twists the words of the innocent.
⁹ “Do not oppress a foreigner; you yourselves know how it feels to be foreigners, because you were foreigners in Egypt.

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    「法律」是要人人平等，除了為了正義的緣故，更是要展現憐憫！正如這裡的律例在字裡行間充滿著憐憫，不可以讓仇恨和多數暴力來操控，才能夠保護到應該保護的人！

     所已一個處理人民事務的判官不是要以使入罪為目的，而是要保護那些受欺壓的人為目的。讓百姓是在法律的保護下，能夠得著生活和生命的延續，讓上帝的榮耀永遠遍滿全地！

    親愛的弟兄姐妹，在這個講求民主與自由的時代，更是要盼望更多人受到保護與照顧，讓每個人都能夠發揮所長，安居樂業，來榮耀上帝並且使人得益處，這也是上帝的兒女扮演公民的角色要完成的！