Proverbs 17:23 Cross References - TKJU

²³ A wicked man takes a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.

⁸ And you shall not take a gift: For the gift blinds the wise, and perverts the words of the righteous.the wise: In Hebrew, the seeing

¹⁹ You shall not wrest judgment; you shall not respect persons, neither take a gift: For a gift does blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.

³ And his sons did not walk in his ways, but turned aside after dishonest gain, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.

³ Behold, here I am: Witness against me before the LORD, and before his anointed: Whose ox have I taken? Or whose donkey have I taken? Or whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Or from whose hand have I received any bribe to blind my eyes with it? And I will restore it to you.

⁸ A gift is as a precious stone in the eyes of him that has it: Wherever it turns, it prospers.

¹⁶ A man's gift makes room for him, and brings him before great men.

¹⁴ A gift in secret pacifies anger: And a reward in the bosom appeases strong wrath.

²³ Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: Everyone loves gifts, and follows after rewards: They do not judge the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

¹² In you they have taken gifts to shed blood; you have taken usury and increase, and you have greedily gained from your neighbors by extortion, and have forgotten Me", said the Lord GOD.

¹¹ The heads of it judge for reward, and its priests teach for hire, and its prophets divine for money: Yet they will lean upon the LORD, and say, "Is not the LORD among us? No evil can come upon us."

³ That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asks, and the judge asks for a reward; and the great man, he utters his mischievous desire: So they wrap it up.his mischievous desire: In Hebrew, the mischief of his soul

¹⁰ Then Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went to the chief priests to betray Him to them. ¹¹ And when they heard it, they were glad, and promised to give him money. Therefore he sought how he might conveniently betray Him.