Leviticus 19:15
Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour. Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.
Judgment of a neighbor must be righteous, with no unrighteousness shown by favoring a person because he is poor or by honoring a person because he is mighty, powerful, or high in status. Neither poverty nor status or power may sway how a neighbor is judged, for righteousness and not regard for position must govern judgment.
This fair judgment is one of the Lord's explicit directions for how people are to treat one another and part of God's laws for holy living. Being holy as God is holy requires justice in dealing with others and oppressing brethren in no way. This impartial justice belongs together with sharing God's gifts by leaving the gleanings of harvest-field, orchard, and vineyard as the Lord's portion to relieve the necessities of the poor and the stranger, and with honoring mother and father, keeping God's Sabbaths, and refusing idols. The chapter containing this command gives Christ's own teaching spoken from the cloudy pillar, holding the same high standard as His New Testament teaching.
The command applies practical love of neighbor to judgment, requiring loving the neighbor as self without selfishness and self-centeredness. It applies the duty of treating others as one wishes to be treated to fair judgment. The holy, impartial, unselfish life it requires means practicing godliness in every circumstance with mercy and relief to all who need it and not only to family or to one's own sect. Personal preference and partiality have no place in Christian conduct. Cultivating the attributes of Jesus, which are the attributes of God, beginning at home and extending to fellow men, is part of this life.
Living this holy life is required to be accepted and approved of God. It comes through individual union with Christ as personal Saviour and not through mere membership in a particular church. The chapter calls those who have received God's great gift in Christ to love one another as Christ has loved them, and it remains as a lesson for future generations. This impartial justice governs dealings with a vulnerable person such as a blind person, who must not be exploited or disadvantaged for another's benefit.