11 Bible Verses about Corrupt Priests

Behold, I am rebuking your seed; and I will spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your appointed feasts. And one shall lift you up to it.

The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so, and what will you do at the end of it?

Her priests have broken My Law and have defiled My holy things. They have put no difference between the holy and the common, and have not taught between the unclean and the clean, and have hidden their eyes from My sabbaths, and I am defiled among them.

Hear this, O priests, and listen, house of Israel. And give ear, house of the king. For judgment is toward you, because you have been a snare on Mizpah and a net spread on Tabor.

And as troops of robbers wait for a man, the company of priests murder in the way of Shechem; for they committed wickedness.

Her heads judge for a bribe, and her priests teach for pay, and her prophets divine for silver, yet they will lean on Jehovah and say, Is not Jehovah among us? No evil can come on us!

Her prophets are proud, men of deceit; her priests have defiled the sanctuary; they have done violence to the Law.

But the chief priests and elders persuaded the crowd that they should ask for Barabbas and destroy Jesus.

And in the same way also the chief priests mocked, with the scribes and elders, saying,

But the chief priests moved the people that he should rather release Barabbas to them.

Then when the chief priests and under-officers saw Him, they cried out, saying, Crucify! Crucify Him! Pilate said to them, You take Him and crucify Him, for I find no fault in him.