Bible Verses About Bribery
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These are the Bible verses most often cited for bribery, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,572 votes, led by Exodus 23:8. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Bribery
Exodus 23:8192 votes
And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.
Proverbs 15:27118 votes
He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live.
Proverbs 17:23116 votes
A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.
Proverbs 17:875 votes
A gift is as a precious stone in the eyes of him that hath it: whithersoever it turneth, it prospereth.
Amos 5:1272 votes
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.
Ecclesiastes 7:769 votes
Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart.
Deuteronomy 16:1967 votes
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.
Proverbs 21:1465 votes
A gift in secret pacifieth anger: and a reward in the bosom strong wrath.
Psalms 26:1054 votes
In whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes.
Isaiah 1:2344 votes
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 unto them.
Isaiah 5:2344 votes
Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!
Proverbs 10:242 votes
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.
Job 15:3439 votes
For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.
1 Timothy 6:1037 votes
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.
Proverbs 28:2135 votes
To have respect of persons is not good: for for a piece of bread that man will transgress.
Matthew 28:12-1535 votes
And when they were assembled with the elders, and had taken counsel, they gave large money unto the soldiers,
Judges 16:530 votes
And the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and said unto her, Entice him, and see wherein his great strength lieth, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him: and we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred pieces of silver.
1 Samuel 8:330 votes
And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.
Micah 7:328 votes
That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.
Matthew 27:3-928 votes
Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,
Isaiah 33:1526 votes
He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;
Proverbs 29:424 votes
The king by judgment establisheth the land: but he that receiveth gifts overthroweth it.
Ezekiel 13:1921 votes
And will ye 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?
Acts 24:2621 votes
He hoped also that money should have been given him of Paul, that he might loose him: wherefore he sent for him the oftener, and communed with him.
James 2:718 votes
Do not they blaspheme that worthy name by the which ye are called?
What does the Bible say about bribery?
Readers most often cite Exodus 23:8 on the subject of bribery. Across 1,572 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Proverbs 15:27, Proverbs 17:23, Proverbs 17:8. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.