Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Bible References
General references
Deuteronomy 10:17
For LORD your God, he is God of gods, and LORD of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the awesome, who regards not persons, nor takes reward.
Deuteronomy 16:19
Thou shall not distort justice. Thou shall not respect persons, neither shall thou take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise, and perverts the words of the righteous.
Exodus 23:7
Keep thee far from a FALSE matter. And do not kill an innocent and righteous man, for I will not justify a wicked man.
Psalm 15:5
he who puts not his money out to interest, nor takes a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be moved.
Proverbs 1:11
If they say, Come with us. Let us lay wait for blood. Let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause.
Ezekiel 22:12
In thee they have taken bribes to shed blood. Thou have taken interest and increase. And thou have greedily gained from thy neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me, says lord LORD.
Micah 3:10
They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
Micah 7:2
The devout man has perished out of the earth, and there is none upright among men. They all lay in wait for blood. They hunt every man his brother with a net.
Matthew 26:15
he said, What are ye willing to give me, and I will deliver him to you? And they weighed out to him thirty silver pieces.
Matthew 27:3
Then Judas, who betrayed him, after seeing that he was condemned, having repented, he brought back the thirty silver pieces to the chief priests and elders,
Acts 1:18
(Indeed therefore this man obtained a field from the reward of his unrighteousness, and having become headlong, he burst open in the middle and all his bowels gushed out.