Bribes

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• Exodus 23:8

  And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

• Proverbs 15:27

  He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live.

• Proverbs 21:14

  A gift in secret pacifieth anger: and a reward in the bosom strong wrath.

• Ecclesiastes 7:7

  Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart.

• Amos 5:12

  For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.

• Deuteronomy 16:19

  Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.

• Proverbs 17:23

  A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.

• Hebrews 13:5–6

  Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.

• James 3:16

  For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.

• 1 Samuel 8:3

  And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.

• Isaiah 1:23

  Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.

• Proverbs 17:8

  A gift is as a precious stone in the eyes of him that hath it: whithersoever it turneth, it prospereth.

• Deuteronomy 10:17

  For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward:

• Deuteronomy 27:25

  Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen.

• Isaiah 5:23

  Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!

• Proverbs 29:4

  The king by judgment establisheth the land: but he that receiveth gifts overthroweth it.

• Psalms 26:10

  In whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes.

• Job 15:34

  For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.

• Micah 7:3

  That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.

• Psalms 15:5

  He that putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these things shall never be moved.

• Matthew 28:12–15

  And when they were assembled with the elders, and had taken counsel, they gave large money unto the soldiers, Saying, Say ye, His disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept. And if this come to the governor's ears, we will persuade him, and secure you. …

• Esther 3:9

  If it please the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to the hands of those that have the charge of the business, to bring it into the king's treasuries.

• Micah 3:11

  The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us.

• Matthew 27:3–9

  Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that. And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself. …

• Isaiah 33:15

  He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;

• Ezekiel 22:12

  In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD.

• Proverbs 28:21

  To have respect of persons is not good: for for a piece of bread that man will transgress.

• 2 Chronicles 19:7

  Wherefore now let the fear of the LORD be upon you; take heed and do it: for there is no iniquity with the LORD our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of gifts.

• Acts 24:26

  He hoped also that money should have been given him of Paul, that he might loose him: wherefore he sent for him the oftener, and communed with him.

• 1 Samuel 12:3

  Behold, here I am: witness against me before the LORD, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of whose hand have I received any bribe to blind mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it you.

• Judges 16:5

  And the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and said unto her, Entice him, and see wherein his great strength lieth, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him: and we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred pieces of silver.

• Proverbs 18:16

  A man's gift maketh room for him, and bringeth him before great men.

• Luke 1:37

  For with God nothing shall be impossible.

• Galatians 2:20

  I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

• Exodus 3:14

  And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.

• Proverbs 4:23

  Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

• Psalms 26:9–10

  Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men: In whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes.

• Galatians 6:7

  Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

• Matthew 6:33

  But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

• Deuteronomy 16:18

  Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.