Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Bribery » Condemned
Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves. All of them are lovers of bribes and are runners after gifts. They don't bring justice to orphans, and the widow's case never comes up for review in their court."
You are not to take a bribe because a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and distorts the words of the righteous.
Their hands are filled with wicked schemes, and their right hands with bribes.
The wicked man takes a bribe in secret in order to pervert the course of justice.
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
and because I know that your transgressions are many, and your sins are numerous as you oppose the righteous, taking bribes as a ransom, and turning away the poor in court
Courts of justice » Corruption and bribery often practised in
and because I know that your transgressions are many, and your sins are numerous as you oppose the righteous, taking bribes as a ransom, and turning away the poor in court
"How terrible it will be for the one who enacts unjust decrees, for those who write oppressive laws that they have prescribed
buying the poor for cash, and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling chaff mixed in with the wheat.'
Exposure » Of sin » Rendered doubly certain by God's infinite knowledge
and because I know that your transgressions are many, and your sins are numerous as you oppose the righteous, taking bribes as a ransom, and turning away the poor in court
Just then the Spirit of the LORD took control of me and told me, "You are to say, "This is what the LORD says: "You've said, O house of Israel, that I know what goes through your mind.
For I am watching all their ways; they are not hidden from my sight. Their iniquity is not concealed from my eyes.
If I sin, you watch me and won't acquit me for my iniquity.
Then you'll certainly count every step I took, but you won't keep an inventory of my sin.
Though you wash yourself with lye and use much soap, the stain of your guilt is still before me," declares the Lord GOD.
It never occurs to them that I remember all their sin. Now their actions have caught up with them, and they have my attention.
Justice » The wicked » Afflict those who act with
and because I know that your transgressions are many, and your sins are numerous as you oppose the righteous, taking bribes as a ransom, and turning away the poor in court
"I'm a laughingstock to my friends, someone who called on God. But then he answered this upright and blameless man, and I have become a laughingstock.
Secret sins » Known to God
and because I know that your transgressions are many, and your sins are numerous as you oppose the righteous, taking bribes as a ransom, and turning away the poor in court
Just then the Spirit of the LORD took control of me and told me, "You are to say, "This is what the LORD says: "You've said, O house of Israel, that I know what goes through your mind.
For I am watching all their ways; they are not hidden from my sight. Their iniquity is not concealed from my eyes.
If I sin, you watch me and won't acquit me for my iniquity.
Then you'll certainly count every step I took, but you won't keep an inventory of my sin.
Though you wash yourself with lye and use much soap, the stain of your guilt is still before me," declares the Lord GOD.
It never occurs to them that I remember all their sin. Now their actions have caught up with them, and they have my attention.
Sin » Internal » Known to God
and because I know that your transgressions are many, and your sins are numerous as you oppose the righteous, taking bribes as a ransom, and turning away the poor in court
Just then the Spirit of the LORD took control of me and told me, "You are to say, "This is what the LORD says: "You've said, O house of Israel, that I know what goes through your mind.
For I am watching all their ways; they are not hidden from my sight. Their iniquity is not concealed from my eyes.
If I sin, you watch me and won't acquit me for my iniquity.
Then you'll certainly count every step I took, but you won't keep an inventory of my sin.
Though you wash yourself with lye and use much soap, the stain of your guilt is still before me," declares the Lord GOD.
It never occurs to them that I remember all their sin. Now their actions have caught up with them, and they have my attention.
Sin » Described as » Often manifold
and because I know that your transgressions are many, and your sins are numerous as you oppose the righteous, taking bribes as a ransom, and turning away the poor in court
Sin » Described as » Often mighty
and because I know that your transgressions are many, and your sins are numerous as you oppose the righteous, taking bribes as a ransom, and turning away the poor in court
The Nation » Bribery » Condemned
Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves. All of them are lovers of bribes and are runners after gifts. They don't bring justice to orphans, and the widow's case never comes up for review in their court."
You are not to take a bribe because a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and distorts the words of the righteous.
Their hands are filled with wicked schemes, and their right hands with bribes.
The wicked man takes a bribe in secret in order to pervert the course of justice.
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
and because I know that your transgressions are many, and your sins are numerous as you oppose the righteous, taking bribes as a ransom, and turning away the poor in court