Proverbs 18:5

 The book of Proverbs gives us insights into so many different areas of life. The book gives us instruction on how to live our lives for God. Here is a proverb that gives us insight about partiallity: 

Proverbs 18:5 (NASV)

To show partiality to the wicked is not good,

Nor to thrust aside the righteous in judgment.

Proverbs 18:5 (NIV)

It is not good to be partial to the wicked

or to deprive the innocent of justice.

Proverbs 18:5 (ESV)

It is not good to be partial to the wicked

or to deprive the righteous of justice.

God puts leaders in position.   There is no leader serving in a position today, anywhere, who is not there because God has put them there.   They can be faithful believers and apostates.   God puts up one and puts down another (Psalm 75:7).   When God puts one in leadership, God demands, even from of the unbeliever, justice.   God demands that the believer and the unbeliever alike, in their judgement are just.   That means making sure the wicked are punished and the innocent are protected (Romans 13).   However, today's leaders are not always that way.    Today's leaders are often bought off by power, prestige, legacy, money and material possessions and power to pervert justice.   Solomon, no doubt, heard the stories about his father, David, when he used his power to kill Uriah, the husband of Bathsheba (Solomon's eventual mother).    Leaders, despite their theological belief system, are held to the standard of God's justice.   That is why it is important to seek justice, love mercy and walk humbly with God (Micah 6).    Leaders will be judged righteously even if they didn't do so in their life.  That is the irony.    God will judge them according to His righteousness and justice.   If you are in leadership you are obligated to judge the same way God does.