Bible verses about "bribes" | Geneva

¹ This knowe also, that in the last dayes shall come perilous times. ² For men shalbe louers of their owne selues, couetous, boasters, proud, cursed speakers, disobedient to parents, vnthankefull, vnholy, ³ Without naturall affection, truce breakers, false accusers, intemperate, fierce, no louers at all of them which are good, ⁴ Traitours, headie, high minded, louers of pleasures more then louers of God,

⁷ Better it is to heare ye rebuke of a wise man, then that a man should heare the song of fooles.

¹² For I know your manifold transgressions, and your mightie sinnes: they afflict the iust, they take rewards, and they oppresse the poore in ye gate.

¹⁶ For where enuying and strife is, there is sedition, and all maner of euill workes.

¹⁴ A gift in secret pacifieth anger, and a gift in the bosome great wrath.

⁵ Let your conuersation be without couetousnesse, and be content with those things that ye haue, for he hath said, ⁶ I will not faile thee, neither forsake thee:

²⁷ He that is greedie of gaine, troubleth his owne house: but he that hateth giftes, shall liue.

⁸ Thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and peruerteth the wordes of the righteous.