Bible verses about "bribery" | KJ2000

³⁴ For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery.

²¹ To show partiality is not good: because for a piece of bread that man will transgress.

²³ Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come before them.

¹² And when they were assembled with the elders, and had taken counsel, they gave much money unto the soldiers, ¹³ Saying, Say this, His disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept. ¹⁴ And if this comes to the governor's ears, we will persuade him, and protect you. ¹⁵ So they took the money, and did as they were taught: and this saying is commonly reported among the Jews until this day.

¹⁹ You shall not pervert judgment; you shall not show partiality, neither take a bribe: for a bribe does blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.

¹⁰ In whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes.

¹⁴ A gift in secret averts anger: and a bribe in the bosom, strong wrath.

² Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivers from death.

²³ Who justify the wicked for a bribe, and take away the justice of the righteous from him!

¹⁰ For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

⁷ Surely oppression makes a wise man mad; and a bribe destroys the heart.

¹² For I know your manifold transgressions, and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.

⁸ A bribe is as a magic stone in the eyes of him that gives it: wherever he turns, he prospers.

²⁷ He that is greedy of gain troubles his own house; but he that hates bribes shall live.

²³ A wicked man takes a bribe out of the bosom to pervert the ways of justice.

⁸ And you shall take no bribe: for the bribe blinds the wise, and perverts the words of the righteous.