7 Bible Verses about Bribery, Results Of
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In whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes.
And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.
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.
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.
Thus saith 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;
A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.
The king by judgment establisheth the land: but he that receiveth gifts overthroweth it.
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