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EXODUS 23:8In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 8 And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

DEUTERONOMY 16:18,19Verses in the Bible

  • 18 Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the Lord thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.
    Deuteronomy 16:18 Meaning
  • 19 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.
    Deuteronomy 16:19 Meaning

DEUTERONOMY 27:25In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 25 Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen.

1 SAMUEL 8:1,3Verses in the Bible

  • 1 And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel.
    1 Samuel 8:1 Meaning
  • 2 Now the name of his firstborn was Joel; and the name of his second, Abiah: they were judges in Beer-sheba.
    1 Samuel 8:2 Meaning
  • 3 And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.
    1 Samuel 8:3 Meaning

JOB 15:34In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 34 For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.

PSALM 26:9,10Verses in the Bible

PROVERBS 15:27In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 27 He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live.

PROVERBS 17:8,23Verses in the Bible

  • 8 A gift is as a precious stone in the eyes of him that hath it: whithersoever it turneth, it prospereth.
    Proverbs 17:8 Meaning

PROVERBS 18:16In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 16 A man's gift maketh room for him, and bringeth him before great men.

PROVERBS 21:14In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 14 A gift in secret pacifieth anger: and a reward in the bosom strong wrath.

PROVERBS 25:14In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 14 Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain.

PROVERBS 28:21In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 21 To have respect of persons is not good: for for a piece of bread that man will transgress.

PROVERBS 29:4In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 4 The king by judgment establisheth the land: but he that receiveth gifts overthroweth it.

ECCLESIASTES 7:7In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 7 Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart.

ISAIAH 1:23In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 23 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.

ISAIAH 5:22,23Verses in the Bible

  • 22 Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:
    Isaiah 5:22 Meaning
  • 23 Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!
    Isaiah 5:23 Meaning

ISAIAH 33:15,16Verses in the Bible

  • 15 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;
    Isaiah 33:15 Meaning
  • 16 He shall dwell on high: his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.
    Isaiah 33:16 Meaning

EZEKIEL 13:19In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 19 And will ye pollute me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should not die, and to save the souls alive that should not live, by your lying to my people that hear your lies?

EZEKIEL 22:12,13Verses in the Bible

  • 12 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.
    Ezekiel 22:12 Meaning
  • 13 Behold, therefore I have smitten mine hand at thy dishonest gain which thou hast made, and at thy blood which hath been in the midst of thee.
    Ezekiel 22:13 Meaning

AMOS 2:6In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 6 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;

AMOS 5:12In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 12 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.

MICAH 7:3In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 3 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.

Instances of Bribery



• Delilah

JUDGES 16:5In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 5 And the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and said unto her, Entice him, and see wherein his great strength lieth, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him: and we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred pieces of silver.

Samuel's sons

• The False Prophet, Shemaiah

NEHEMIAH 6:10-13Verses in the Bible

  • 10 Afterward I came unto the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabeel, who was shut up; and he said, Let us meet together in the house of God, within the temple, and let us shut the doors of the temple: for they will come to slay thee; yea, in the night will they come to slay thee.
    Nehemiah 6:10 Meaning
  • 11 And I said, Should such a man as I flee? and who is there, that, being as I am, would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in.
    Nehemiah 6:11 Meaning
  • 12 And, lo, I perceived that God had not sent him; but that he pronounced this prophecy against me: for Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.
    Nehemiah 6:12 Meaning
  • 13 Therefore was he hired, that I should be afraid, and do so, and sin, and that they might have matter for an evil report, that they might reproach me.
    Nehemiah 6:13 Meaning

• Ben-Hadad

1 KINGS 15:19In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 19 There is a league between me and thee, and between my father and thy father: behold, I have sent unto thee a present of silver and gold; come and break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.

• Haman Bribes Ahasuerus to Destroy the Jews

ESTHER 3:9In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 9 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.

• Chief Priests Bribe Judas

MATTHEW 26:15In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 15 And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver.

MATTHEW 27:3-9Verses in the Bible

  • 3 Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,
    Matthew 27:3 Meaning
  • 4 Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that.
    Matthew 27:4 Meaning
  • 5 And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.
    Matthew 27:5 Meaning
  • 6 And the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said, It is not lawful for to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood.
    Matthew 27:6 Meaning
  • 7 And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in.
    Matthew 27:7 Meaning
  • 8 Wherefore that field was called, The field of blood, unto this day.
    Matthew 27:8 Meaning
  • 9 Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet, saying, And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him that was valued, whom they of the children of Israel did value;
    Matthew 27:9 Meaning

MARK 14:11In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 11 And when they heard it, they were glad, and promised to give him money. And he sought how he might conveniently betray him.

LUKE 22:5In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 5 And they were glad, and covenanted to give him money.

• Soldiers Bribed to Declare That the Disciples Stole the Body of Jesus

MATTHEW 28:12-15Verses in the Bible

  • 12 And when they were assembled with the elders, and had taken counsel, they gave large money unto the soldiers,
    Matthew 28:12 Meaning
  • 13 Saying, Say ye, His disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept.
    Matthew 28:13 Meaning
  • 14 And if this come to the governor's ears, we will persuade him, and secure you.
    Matthew 28:14 Meaning
  • 15 So they took the money, and did as they were taught: and this saying is commonly reported among the Jews until this day.
    Matthew 28:15 Meaning

• Governor Felix Seeks a Bribe from Paul

ACTS 24:26In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 26 He hoped also that money should have been given him of Paul, that he might loose him: wherefore he sent for him the oftener, and communed with him.

Sources

The King James Bible text is sourced from the BibleForgeDB database (https://github.com/bibleforge) within the BibleForge project (http://bibleforge.com). Bible topic categories and verse references are from Nave's Topical Bible (1896) by Orville James Nave (1841–1917). Popularity rankings are based on search volume data from the Google AdWords Keyword Planner tool.


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