11 Bible Verses about Corrupt Priests

Behold, I reprehend your seed and spread the dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemnities; and ye shall be removed with it.

The prophets prophesied falsely, and the priests bore rule by their hands; and my people love to have it so. What will ye do in the end thereof?

Her priests have violated my law by force and have profaned my holy things; they have made no difference between the holy and the profane, neither have they showed the difference between the unclean and the clean and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.

Hear ye this, O priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and give ear, O house of the king because the judgment is for you, for ye have been a snare in Mizpah and a net spread over Tabor.

And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the council of priests murder in the way by common accord; for they put the abomination into effect.

the heads thereof judge for bribes, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet they come near unto the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? No evil can come upon us.

Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary; they have falsified the law.

But the princes of the priests and the elders persuaded the multitude that they should ask for Barabbas and destroy Jesus.

Likewise also the princes of the priests mocking him, with the scribes and elders, said,

But the princes of the priests moved the multitude that he should rather release Barabbas unto them.

When the princes of the priests and the servants saw him, they cried out, saying, crucify him, crucify him. Pilate said unto them, Take him, and crucify him, for I find no fault in him.