BRIBERY

Passages on this topic · 51

• Exodus 23:8

  “You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have sight and perverts the words of the righteous.

• Deuteronomy 16:18

  You shall make judges and officers in all your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

• Deuteronomy 16:19

  You 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.

• Deuteronomy 27:25

  ‘Cursed is he who takes a bribe to kill an innocent person.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

• Judges 16:5

  The lords of the Philistines came up to her, and said to her, “Entice him, and see in which his great strength lies, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him; and we will each give you eleven hundred pieces of silver.”

• 1 Samuel 8:1

  When Samuel was old, he made his sons judges over Israel.

• 1 Samuel 8:3

  His sons didn’t walk in his ways, but turned aside after dishonest gain, took bribes, and perverted justice.

• 1 Kings 15:19

  “There is a treaty between me and you, between my father and your father. Behold, I have sent to you a present of silver and gold. Go, break your treaty with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.”

• Nehemiah 6:10

  I went to the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabel, who was shut in at his home; and he said, “Let us meet together in God’s house, within the temple, and let us shut the doors of the temple; for they will come to kill you. Yes, in the night will they come to kill you.”

• Nehemiah 6:11

  I said, “Should a man like me flee? Who is there that, being such as I, would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in.”

• Nehemiah 6:12

  I discerned, and behold, God had not sent him; but he pronounced this prophecy against me. Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.

• Nehemiah 6:13

  He hired so that I would be afraid, do so, and sin, and that they might have material for an evil report, that they might reproach me.

• Esther 3:9

  If it pleases the king, let it be written that they be destroyed; and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those who are in charge of the king’s business, to bring it into the king’s treasuries.”

• Job 15:34

  For the company of the godless shall be barren, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery.

• Psalms 26:9

  Don’t gather my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloodthirsty men;

• Psalms 26:10

  in whose hands is wickedness, their right hand is full of bribes.

• Proverbs 15:27

  He who is greedy for gain troubles his own house, but he who hates bribes will live.

• Proverbs 17:8

  A bribe is a precious stone in the eyes of him who gives it; wherever he turns, he prospers.

• Proverbs 17:23

  A wicked man receives a bribe in secret, to pervert the ways of justice.

• Proverbs 18:16

  A man’s gift makes room for him, and brings him before great men.

• Proverbs 21:14

  A gift in secret pacifies anger; and a bribe in the cloak, strong wrath.

• Proverbs 25:14

  As clouds and wind without rain, so is he who boasts of gifts deceptively.

• Proverbs 28:21

  To show partiality is not good; yet a man will do wrong for a piece of bread.

• Proverbs 29:4

  The king by justice makes the land stable, but he who takes bribes tears it down.

• Ecclesiastes 7:7

  Surely extortion makes the wise man foolish; and a bribe destroys the understanding.

• Isaiah 1:23

  Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards. They don’t judge the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

• Isaiah 5:22

  Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine, and champions at mixing strong drink;

• Isaiah 5:23

  who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice for the innocent!

• Isaiah 33:15

  He 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 —

• Isaiah 33:16

  he will dwell on high. His place of defense will be the fortress of rocks. His bread will be supplied. His waters will be sure.

• Ezekiel 13:19

  You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to kill the souls who should not die, and to save the souls alive who should not live, by your lying to my people who listen to lies.’

• Ezekiel 22:12

  In you have they taken bribes to shed blood. You have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me,” says the Lord Yahweh.

• Ezekiel 22:13

  “‘“Behold, therefore I have struck my hand at your dishonest gain which you have made, and at your blood which has been within you.

• Amos 2:6

  Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Israel, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes;

• Amos 5:12

  For I know how many your offenses, and how great are your sins — you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn aside the needy in the courts.

• Micah 7:3

  Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe; and the powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.

• Matthew 26:15

  and said, “What are you willing to give me, that I should deliver him to you?” They weighed out for him thirty pieces of silver.

• Matthew 27:3

  Then Judas, who betrayed him, when he saw that Jesus was condemned, felt remorse, and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,

• Matthew 27:4

  saying, “I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood.” But they said, “What is that to us? You see to it.”

• Matthew 27:5

  He threw down the pieces of silver in the sanctuary, and departed. He went away and hanged himself.

• Matthew 27:6

  The chief priests took the pieces of silver, and said, “It’s not lawful to put them into the treasury, since it is the price of blood.”

• Matthew 27:7

  They took counsel, and bought the potter’s field with them, to bury strangers in.

• Matthew 27:8

  Therefore that field was called “The Field of Blood” to this day.

• Matthew 27:9

  Then that which was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled, saying, “They took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him upon whom a price had been set, whom some of the children of Israel priced,

• Matthew 28:12

  When they were assembled with the elders, and had taken counsel, they gave a large amount of silver to the soldiers,

• Matthew 28:13

  saying, “Say that his disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept.

• Matthew 28:14

  If this comes to the governor’s ears, we will persuade him and make you free of worry.”

• Matthew 28:15

  So they took the money and did as they were told. This saying was spread abroad among the Jews, and continues until today.

• Mark 14:11

  They, when they heard it, were glad, and promised to give him money. He sought how he might conveniently deliver him.

• Luke 22:5

  They were glad, and agreed to give him money.

• Acts 24:26

  Meanwhile, he also hoped that money would be given to him by Paul, that he might release him. Therefore also he sent for him more often, and talked with him.