Bible Verses About Bribery And Corruption

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

Core Bible anti-bribery verse

A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.

Gift corrupts judgment

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.

Core Bible anti-bribery verse

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

Judgment harmed by gifts

So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

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Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!

Core Bible anti-bribery verse

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

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He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.

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

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And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.

Sons take bribes and pervert judgment

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

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

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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.

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

Secret bribe language

As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.

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For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.

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There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.

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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.

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Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.

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Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.

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They give gifts to all whores: but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and hirest them, that they may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredom.

Uses gift language, but about prostitution, not bribery

Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.

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Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.

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Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.

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He that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife: but he that putteth his trust in the LORD shall be made fat.

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But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.

About Simon Magus trying to buy a divine gift, not ordinary bribery

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

Cursed is the bribe that sheds innocent blood

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.

Bribery and extortion language

But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;

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And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.

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For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

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Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.

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And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?

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Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man.

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Many will intreat the favour of the prince: and every man is a friend to him that giveth gifts.

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