Bribery: General Scriptures Concerning
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Exodus 23:8
And you shall take no gift: for the gift blinds the wise, and perverts the words of the righteous.
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Deuteronomy 16:18,19
Judges and officers shall you make you in all your gates, which the LORD your God gives you, throughout your tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.
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Deuteronomy 27:25
Cursed be he that takes reward to slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen.
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1 Samuel 8:1,3
And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel.
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Job 15:34
For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.
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Psalm 26:9,10
Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men:
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Proverbs 15:27
He that is greedy of gain troubles his own house; but he that hates gifts shall live.
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Proverbs 17:8,23
A gift is as a precious stone in the eyes of him that has it: wherever it turns, it prospers.
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Proverbs 18:16
A man's gift makes room for him, and brings him before great men.
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Proverbs 21:14
A gift in secret pacifies anger: and a reward in the bosom strong wrath.
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Proverbs 25:14
Whoever boasts himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain.
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Proverbs 28:21
To have respect of persons is not good: for for a piece of bread that man will transgress.
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Proverbs 29:4
The king by judgment establishes the land: but he that receives gifts overthrows it.
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Ecclesiastes 7:7
Surely oppression makes a wise man mad; and a gift destroys the heart.
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Isaiah 1:23
Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loves gifts, and follows after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.
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Isaiah 5:22,23
Woe to them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:
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Isaiah 33:15,16
He that walks righteously, and speaks uprightly; he that despises the gain of oppressions, that shakes his hands from holding of bribes, that stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from seeing evil;
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Ezekiel 13:19
And will you pollute me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should not die, and to save the souls alive that should not live, by your lying to my people that hear your lies?
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Ezekiel 22:12,13
In you have they taken gifts to shed blood; you have taken usury and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by extortion, and have forgotten me, said the Lord GOD.
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Amos 2:6
Thus said the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;
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Amos 5:12
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.
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Micah 7:3
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.
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The Life of Christ.
... the attendance of vast assemblages by giving general notice that ... infamy by the base
arts of bribery and falsehood. ... unto them in all the Scriptures the things ...
//christianbookshelf.org/killen/the ancient church/chapter ii the life of.htm

The First Kings.
... They were mercenary and open to bribery, and it is ... He was obeyed by that unscrupulous
general; and when ... The Scriptures describe David as "a man after God's own ...
/.../headley/half hours in bible lands volume 2/the first kings.htm

Paul Before the Council.
... the only presumption against him was the general clamour of ... who had procured an office
by bribery, should not ... the Jewish religion, and of the Scriptures of the ...
/.../dick/lectures on the acts of the apostles/lecture xxvi paul before the.htm

The Church of the Middle Ages
... AD1492-AD1503), who was elected by bribery, and whose ... the place of printing, and
were in general the props ... as since, the whole body of the Scriptures by sundry ...
/.../blunt/a key to the knowledge of church history/chapter x the church of.htm

An Account of the Organization of the Methodist Episcopal Church ...
... to meditate, pray, and read the Scriptures, with Mr ... 1. For our general business,
Serving the Lord with all ... 6. Extirpate bribery, receiving any thing directly or ...
/.../chapter 3 an account of.htm

An Analysis of Augustin's Writings against the Donatists.
... yet his salvation is desired; the sharp writing concerning him is ... also to give him
a tractate for general use. ... a trust in man which the Scriptures condemn; the ...
/.../chapter ii name analysis of.htm

Thoughts Upon the Imitation of Christ.
... yea those very Persons whom the Scriptures record, and God ... or mistake in his Judgment,
no bribery or corruption ... endeavour to mind the Reader in general of such ...
/.../private thoughts upon a christian life/thoughts upon the imitation of.htm

The Greater Prophets.
... overreaching artifices, breaches of trust, bribery, oppression of ... This signifies,
in general, that God's care ... must strike every reader of the holy Scriptures. ...
/.../barrows/companion to the bible/chapter xxii the greater prophets.htm

The Old Testament and Comparative Religion
... When the comparative study of the Scriptures was first ... outline will give at least
a general notion of ... a crime; 3, 4, False witness and bribery; 5, Alteration ...
/.../eiselen/the christian view of the old testament/chapter v the old testament.htm

A Few Sighs from Hell;
... to leave thee, I shall leave with thee two Scriptures to be ... a truth there was in
that parable concerning the Jews ... 1 Timothy 6:9). Thus much in general; but now ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/a few sighs from hell.htm

Resources
What does the Bible say about gangs? | GotQuestions.org

What does the Bible say about vandalism? | GotQuestions.org

What does the Bible say about injustice? | GotQuestions.org

Bribery: Dictionary and Thesaurus | Clyx.com

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