His sons didn’t walk in his ways, but turned aside after dishonest gain, took bribes, and perverted justice.
Parallel translations
- KJV And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.
- BSB But his sons did not walk in his ways; they turned aside toward dishonest gain, accepting bribes and perverting justice.
- NKJV But his sons did not walk in his ways; they turned aside after dishonest gain, took bribes, and perverted justice.
- NASB His sons, however, did not walk in his ways but turned aside after dishonest gain, and they took bribes and perverted justice.
- NLT But they were not like their father, for they were greedy for money. They accepted bribes and perverted justice.
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- Deut 16:19You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality. You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise, and perverts the words of the righteous.
- Ps 15:5he who doesn’t lend out his money for usury, nor take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be shaken.
- 1 Tim 6:10For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
- Exod 23:8“You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have sight and perverts the words of the righteous.
- Exod 18:21Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men which fear God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
- 2 Sam 15:4Absalom said moreover, “Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man who has any suit or cause might come to me, and I would do him justice!”
- 1 Tim 3:3not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;
- Isa 33:15He who walks righteously, and speaks blamelessly; He who despises the gain of oppressions, who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil —
- Eccl 2:19Who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have rule over all of my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.
- Jer 22:15–17“Shall you reign, because you strive to excel in cedar? Didn’t your father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.
- 1 Kgs 12:6–11King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, “What counsel do you give me to answer these people?”
- Ps 26:10in whose hands is wickedness, their right hand is full of bribes.
- 2 Kgs 21:1–3Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hephzibah.
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