Exodus 23:8
And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and
perverteth the words of the righteous.
Judges 16:4-5
And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley
of Sorek, whose name was Delilah. 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.
1 Samuel 8:3
And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre,
and took bribes, and perverted judgment.
1 Samuel 12:3
Behold, here I am: witness against me before the Lord, and before
his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or
whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of whose hand have
I received any bribe to blind mine eyes therewith? and I will
restore it you.
1 Kings 15:19
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.
Esther 3:8-9
And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people
scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces
of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from all people;
neither keep they the king's laws: therefore it is not for the
king's profit to suffer them. 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.
Psalms 26:9-10
Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men: In
whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes.
Proverbs 17:23
A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of
judgment.
Proverbs 18:16
A man's gift maketh room for him, and bringeth him before great men.
Proverbs 21:14
A gift in secret pacifieth anger: and a reward in the bosom strong
wrath.
Proverbs 25:14
Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind
without rain.
Proverbs 28:21
To have respect of persons is not good: for for a piece of bread
that man will transgress.
Proverbs 29:4
The king by judgment establisheth the land: but he that receiveth
gifts overthroweth it.
Ecclesiastes 7:7
Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the
heart.
Daniel 5:16-17
And I have heard of thee, that thou canst make interpretations, and
dissolve doubts: now if thou canst read the writing, and make known
to me the interpretation thereof, thou shalt be clothed with
scarlet, and have a chain of gold about thy neck, and shalt be the
third ruler in the kingdom. Then Daniel answered and said before the
king, Let thy gifts be to thyself, and give thy rewards to another;
yet I will read the writing unto the king, and make known to him the
interpretation.
Isaiah 1:23
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 33:15
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;
Amos 5:12
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.
Matthew 26:15
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 28:12-13
And when they were assembled with the elders, and had taken counsel,
they gave large money unto the soldiers, Saying, Say ye, His
disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept.
Acts 24:26
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.
1 Timothy 3:3
Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but
patient, not a brawler, not covetous;
1 Timothy 6:10
For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some
coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced
themselves through with many sorrows.
