Proverbs 15:27

A Wise Son Brings Blessings To Others

²⁶ To the LORD evil plans are detestable, but pleasant words are pure. ²⁷ Those who are greedy for unjust gain bring trouble into their homes, but the person who hates bribes will live. ²⁸ The mind of the righteous thinks before speaking, but the wicked person spews out evil.

Greedy for Gain

No

Exodus 23:8

You are not to take a bribe because a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and distorts the words of the righteous.

Proverbs 1:19

Such is the way of all those who seek illicit gain it takes away the lives of those who possess it.

Deuteronomy 16:19

You must not twist justice, show favoritism, or take bribes, because a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and subverts the speech of the righteous.

Proverbs 11:29

Whoever troubles his household will inherit the wind, and the fool will be a servant to the wise.

Jeremiah 17:11

As a partridge gathers together eggs that it didn't lay, so is a person who amasses wealth unjustly. In the middle of his life it will leave him, and in the end he will prove to be a fool."

Exodus 18:21

You are to look for capable men among the people, men who fear God, men of integrity who hate dishonest gain. You are to set these men over them as officials over thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens.

Deuteronomy 7:26

Don't bring any detestable thing to your house, because you yourself will be utterly destroyed along with these detestable things. You must absolutely abhor and detest all of it, because it has been devoted to destruction."

Joshua 6:18

Now as for you, everything has been turned over for destruction. Don't covet or take any of these things. Otherwise, you'll make the camp of Israel itself an object worthy of destruction, and bring trouble on it.

Joshua 7:11-12

Israel has sinned. They broke my covenant that I commanded them by taking some of the things that had been turned over to destruction. They have stolen, have been deceitful, and have stored what they stole among their own belongings.

Joshua 7:24-25

Then Joshua, with all Israel accompanying him, took Zerah's son Achan, along with the silver, the mantle, the gold, his sons, his daughters, his oxen, his donkeys, his sheep, his tent, and everything that belonged to him to the Valley of Achor.

1 Samuel 8:3-5

His sons did not follow Samuel's example. Instead, they pursued dishonest gain, took bribes, and perverted justice.

2 Kings 5:27

Naaman's leprosy will plague you and your descendants forever!" As he left Elisha's presence, he was infected with leprosy that looked like white snow.

Proverbs 11:19

Genuine righteousness leads to life, but whoever pursues evil will die.

Proverbs 20:21

An inheritance quickly obtained at the beginning will not be blessed at the end.

Proverbs 28:16

A Commander-in-Chief who is a cruel oppressor lacks understanding, but whoever hates unjust gain will live longer.

Proverbs 29:4

A king brings stability to a land through justice, but a man who takes bribes brings it to ruin.

Isaiah 5:8-10

"How terrible it will be for you who join house to house, who add field to field, until there is no more room, and you have settled yourselves alone in the middle of the land!"

Isaiah 33:15-16

The one who walks righteously and has spoken sincere words, who rejects gain from extortion and waves his hand, rejecting bribes, who blocks his ears from hearing plots of murder and shuts his eyes against seeing evil

Habakkuk 2:9-11

"Woe to the one who amasses profit upon unjust profit in order to establish his household, so he can establish a secure place on the heights and escape from the power of evil.

Zechariah 5:3-4

He responded to me, "This is the curse that is going out over the surface of the whole earth, because, according to this side of the scroll, all thieves will be ejected, and according to the other side of the scroll, all liars will be ejected."