Proverbs 15:27

Greed for ill-gotten gain brings trouble on one's own household, while refusing bribes brings life. It matters because covetousness corrupts a person and their family, but integrity preserves.

Cross-references · 20

• Exod 23:8And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.
• Prov 1:19So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
• Jer 17:11As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.
• Prov 11:29He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.
• Isa 33:15–16He 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;
• Deut 16:19Thou 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.
• Josh 7:24–25And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had: and they brought them unto the valley of Achor.
• Exod 18:21Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:
• Zech 5:3–4Then said he unto me, This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off as on this side according to it; and every one that sweareth shall be cut off as on that side according to it.
• Hab 2:9–11Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!
• Josh 6:18And ye, in any wise keep yourselves from the accursed thing, lest ye make yourselves accursed, when ye take of the accursed thing, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it.
• Josh 7:11–12Israel hath sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded them: for they have even taken of the accursed thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also, and they have put it even among their own stuff.
• Prov 28:16The prince that wanteth understanding is also a great oppressor: but he that hateth covetousness shall prolong his days.
• Prov 20:21An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.
• Isa 5:8–10Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!
• Prov 11:19As righteousness tendeth to life: so he that pursueth evil pursueth it to his own death.
• Deut 7:26Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.
• 1 Sam 8:3–5And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.
• 2 Kgs 5:27The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed for ever. And he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow.
• Prov 29:4The king by judgment establisheth the land: but he that receiveth gifts overthroweth it.

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