Bible verses about "bribery" | YLT

³⁴ For the company of the profane is gloomy, And fire hath consumed tents of bribery.

²¹ To discern faces is not good, And for a piece of bread doth a man transgress.

²³ Thy princes are apostates, and companions of thieves, Every one loving a bribe, and pursuing rewards, The fatherless they judge not, And the plea of the widow cometh not to them.

¹² and having been gathered together with the elders, counsel also having taken, they gave much money to the soldiers, ¹³ saying, `Say ye, that his disciples having come by night, stole him—we being asleep; ¹⁴ and if this be heard by the governor, we will persuade him, and you keep free from anxiety.' ¹⁵ And they, having received the money, did as they were taught, and this account was spread abroad among Jews till this day.

¹⁹ Thou dost not turn aside judgment; thou dost not discern faces, nor take a bribe, for the bribe blindeth the eyes of the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

¹⁰ In whose hand is a wicked device, And their right hand is full of bribes.

¹⁴ A gift in secret pacifieth anger, And a bribe in the bosom strong fury.

² Treasures of wickedness profit not, And righteousness delivereth from death.

²³ Declaring righteous the wicked for a bribe, And the righteousness of the righteous They turn aside from him.

¹⁰ for a root of all the evils is the love of money, which certain longing for did go astray from the faith, and themselves did pierce through with many sorrows;

⁷ Surely oppression maketh the wise mad, And a gift destroyeth the heart.

¹² For I have known—many are your transgressions, And mighty your sins, Adversaries of the righteous, taking ransoms, And the needy in the gate ye turned aside.

⁸ A stone of grace is the bribe in the eyes of its possessors, Whithersoever it turneth, it prospereth.

²⁷ A dishonest gainer is troubling his house, And whoso is hating gifts liveth.

²³ A bribe from the bosom the wicked taketh, To turn aside the paths of judgment.

⁸ `And a bribe thou dost not take; for the bribe bindeth the open-eyed, and perverteth the words of the righteous.