1 Samuel 8:3
The sons did not follow their father's example but turned to dishonest ways of making money. They took bribes and denied people justice.
Deuteronomy 16:19
Never pervert justice. Always be impartial. Never take a bribe, because bribes blind wise people and deny justice to those who are in the right.
Psalm 15:5
The one who does not collect interest on a loan or take a bribe against an innocent person. Whoever does these things will never fall or be upset.
Exodus 18:21
You should choose capable men from all the people. Find men who respect God. These must be men you can trust who hate corruption. Put them in charge of groups of thousands, hundreds, fifties and tens.
Exodus 23:8
Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe makes the discerning blind to what is right and perverts the words of the righteous.
2 Samuel 15:4
He added: How I wish I were a judge! Then anyone who had a dispute or a claim could come to me. I would give him justice.
1 Kings 12:6-11
Then King Rehoboam consulted elders who had been with Solomon his father when he was living. He said: In your opinion, what answer am I to give to these people?
2 Kings 21:1-3
Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king. He ruled in Jerusalem for fifty-five years. His mother's name was Hephzibah.
Psalm 26:10
Evil schemes are in their hands. Their right hands are full of bribes.
Ecclesiastes 2:19
Who knows if he will be a wise man or a fool? But he will have power over all the work that I have done and in which I have been wise under the sun. This too is vanity.
Isaiah 33:15
He who walks righteously and speaks what is right, who rejects gain from extortion and keeps his hand from accepting bribes, who stops his ears against plots of murder and shuts his eyes against contemplating evil.
Jeremiah 22:15-17
Do you become a king because you are competing in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.
1 Timothy 3:3
not addicted to wine, not quarrelsome; but gentle, not contentious, no lover of money;
1 Timothy 6:10
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some by longing for it have been led away from the faith. They have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.