7 Bible Verses about Bribery, Results Of

in whose hands [is] an evil plan, and whose right hand is full of bribes.

And you will not take a bribe, because the bribe makes [the] sighted blind and ruins [the] words of [the] righteous.

Your princes [are] rebels and companions of thieves. Every one loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not defend [the] orphan and [the] legal dispute of [the] widow does not come before them.

For I know your transgressions [are] many and your sins [are] numerous, [you] foes of [the] righteous, those who take a bribe, and {those who} push aside [the] poor [ones] in the gate!

Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Israel and for four I will not revoke [the punishment], because they sell the righteous for money and the poor for a pair of sandals!

The wicked will accept a bribe from the lap, [in order] to pervert the ways of justice.

By justice a king gives stability [to] a land, but a man of bribes will ruin it.