Bible Verses About Bribes
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for bribes, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 2,001 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 Bribes
Exodus 23:8222 votes
And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.
Proverbs 15:27139 votes
He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live.
Proverbs 21:1481 votes
A gift in secret pacifieth anger: and a reward in the bosom strong wrath.
Ecclesiastes 7:781 votes
Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart.
Amos 5:1271 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.
Deuteronomy 16:1966 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 17:2357 votes
A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.
Hebrews 13:5-651 votes
Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
Isaiah 1:2346 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.
James 3:1646 votes
For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
Proverbs 17:844 votes
A gift is as a precious stone in the eyes of him that hath it: whithersoever it turneth, it prospereth.
1 Samuel 8:341 votes
And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.
Deuteronomy 10:1736 votes
For the Lord your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward:
Deuteronomy 27:2536 votes
Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Psalms 26:1032 votes
In whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes.
Isaiah 5:2332 votes
Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!
Proverbs 29:431 votes
The king by judgment establisheth the land: but he that receiveth gifts overthroweth it.
Job 15:3429 votes
For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.
Micah 7:327 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.
Psalms 15:524 votes
He that putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these things shall never be moved.
Matthew 28:12-1522 votes
And when they were assembled with the elders, and had taken counsel, they gave large money unto the soldiers,
Micah 3:1121 votes
The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the Lord, and say, Is not the Lord among us? none evil can come upon us.
Esther 3:920 votes
If it please the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to the hands of those that have the charge of the business, to bring it into the king’s treasuries.
Isaiah 33:1520 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;
Ezekiel 22:1220 votes
In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord God.
What does the Bible say about bribes?
Readers most often cite Exodus 23:8 on the subject of bribes. Across 2,001 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Proverbs 15:27, Proverbs 21:14, Ecclesiastes 7:7. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.