1 Samuel 8:3
Nevertheless, his sons followed not his steps: but turned aside after lucre and took rewards, and perverted the right.
Deuteronomy 16:19
Wrest not the law, nor know any person, neither take any reward: for gifts blind the wise and pervert the words of the righteous.
Psalm 15:5
He that hath not given his money upon usury, nor taken reward against the innocent. Whoso doeth these things shall never fall.
Exodus 18:21
Moreover, seek out, among all the people, men of activity which fear God; and men that are true and hate covetousness: and make them heads over the people, captains over thousands, over hundreds, over fifty, and over ten.
Exodus 23:8
Thou shalt take no gifts, for gifts blind the seeing and pervert the words of the righteous.
2 Samuel 15:4
Then Absalom said moreover, "Oh, that I were a judge in the land, and that all men which have pleas and matter in the law, should come to me. For I would do them justice."
1 Kings 12:6-11
And king Rehoboam took counsel with the old men that stood before Solomon his father, while he yet lived, and said, "What counsel give ye to answer this people withal?"
2 Kings 21:1-3
Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem: his mother's name was Hephzibah.
Psalm 26:10
in whose hands is wickedness, and their righthand is full of gifts.
Ecclesiastes 2:19
For who knoweth, whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? And yet shall he be lord of all my labours, which I with such wisdom have taken under the Sun. Is not this a vain thing?
Isaiah 33:15
He that leadeth a godly life - say I - and speaketh the truth; He that abhorreth to do violence and deceit; he that keepeth his hand that he touch no reward; which stoppeth his ears, that he hear no counsel against the innocent; which holdeth down his eyes, that he see none evil.
Jeremiah 22:15-17
Thinkest thou to reign, now that thou provokest me to wrath with thy Cedar trees? Did not thy father eat and drink, and prosper well, as long as he dealt with equity and righteousness?
1 Timothy 3:3
not drunken, no fighter, not given to filthy lucre: but gentle, abhorring fighting, abhorring covetousness,
1 Timothy 6:10
For covetousness is the root of all evil, which while some lusted after, they erred from the faith, and tangled themselves with many sorrows.