Bible verses about "bribery" | Webster

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

²³ Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come to them.

²¹ To have respect of persons is not good: for, for a piece of bread that man will transgress.

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

¹⁹ Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift; for a gift doth 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.

²³ Who justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!

¹⁴ A gift in secret pacifieth anger: and a reward in the bosom, strong wrath.

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

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

⁷ Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth 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 gift is as a precious stone in the eyes of him that hath it: whithersoever it turneth, it prospereth.

²⁷ He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live.

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

⁸ And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.