Bribery
A 19th-century editor grouped these passages under ‘Bribery’. It’s a historical finding aid — one editor’s arrangement of the text, not Scripture’s own.
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
Showing 1–24 of 39 verses grouped under this topic.
Nave's Topical Bible
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
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Exodus 23:8 OT
“You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have sight and perverts the words of the righteous.
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You shall make judges and officers in all your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.
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You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality. You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.
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‘Cursed is he who takes a bribe to kill an innocent person.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
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1 Samuel 8:1 OT
When Samuel was old, he made his sons judges over Israel.
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1 Samuel 8:3 OT
His sons didn’t walk in his ways, but turned away after dishonest gain, took bribes, and perverted justice.
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Job 15:34 OT
For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of bribery.
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Psalms 26:9 OT
Don’t gather my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloodthirsty men;
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Psalms 26:10 OT
in whose hands is wickedness, their right hand is full of bribes.
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He who is greedy for gain troubles his own house, but he who hates bribes will live.
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A bribe is a precious stone in the eyes of him who gives it; wherever he turns, he prospers.
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A wicked man receives a bribe in secret, to pervert the ways of justice.
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A man’s gift makes room for him, and brings him before great men.
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A gift in secret pacifies anger, and a bribe in the cloak, strong wrath.
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As clouds and wind without rain, so is he who boasts of gifts deceptively.
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To show partiality is not good; yet a man will do wrong for a piece of bread.
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The king by justice makes the land stable, but he who takes bribes tears it down.
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Surely extortion makes the wise man foolish; and a bribe destroys the understanding.
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Isaiah 1:23 OT
Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes and follows after rewards. They don’t defend the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.
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Isaiah 5:22 OT
Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine, and champions at mixing strong drink;
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Isaiah 5:23 OT
who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice for the innocent!
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Isaiah 33:15 OT
He who walks righteously and speaks blamelessly, he who despises the gain of oppressions, who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil—
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Isaiah 33:16 OT
he will dwell on high. His place of defense will be the fortress of rocks. His bread will be supplied. His waters will be sure.
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You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to kill the souls who should not die, and to save the souls alive who should not live, by your lying to my people who listen to lies.’