Isaiah 1:23
Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come before them.
Exodus 23:8
And you shall take no bribe: for the bribe blinds the wise, and perverts the words of the righteous.
Micah 7:3
That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asks, and the judge asks for a bribe; and the great man, he utters his evil desire: so they weave it together.
Zechariah 7:10
And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the sojourner, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.
Deuteronomy 16:19
You shall not pervert judgment; you shall not show partiality, neither take a bribe: for a bribe does blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.
2 Chronicles 24:17-21
Now after the death of Jehoiada came the princes of Judah, and bowed before the king. Then the king hearkened unto them.
2 Chronicles 36:14
Moreover all the leaders of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much according to all the abominations of the nations; and polluted the house of the LORD which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.
Proverbs 17:23
A wicked man takes a bribe out of the bosom to pervert the ways of justice.
Proverbs 29:24
Whosoever is partner with a thief hates his own soul: he hears cursing, and reveals it not.
Isaiah 3:14
The LORD will enter into judgment with the elders of his people, and its princes: For you have eaten up the vineyard; the plunder of the poor is in your houses.
Isaiah 10:1-2
Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write misfortune which they have prescribed;
Isaiah 33:15
He that walks righteously, and speaks uprightly; he that despises the gain of oppressions, that keeps his hands from the holding of bribes, that stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed, and shuts his eyes from seeing evil;
Jeremiah 5:5
I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of the LORD, and the law of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.
Jeremiah 5:28-29
They have grown fat, they shine: yea, they pass over the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not defend.
Jeremiah 22:17
But your eyes and your heart are for nothing but for your covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.
Ezekiel 22:6-12
Behold, the princes of Israel, each one in you used his power to shed blood.
Daniel 9:5-6
We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from your precepts and from your judgments:
Hosea 4:18
Their drink is sour: they have committed harlotry continually: her rulers love shame more than glory.
Hosea 7:3-5
They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
Hosea 9:15
All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their deeds I will drive them out of my house, I will love them no more: all their princes are rebels.
Micah 3:1-3
And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and you rulers of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment?
Micah 3:11
Her heads judge for reward, and her priests teach for hire, and her prophets divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? no evil can come upon us.
Malachi 3:5
And I will come near to you for judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the sojourner from his right, and fear not me, says the LORD of hosts.
Matthew 21:13
And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but you have made it a den of thieves.
Mark 11:17
And he taught, saying unto them, Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but you have made it a den of thieves.
Luke 18:2-5
Saying, There was in a city a judge, who feared not God, neither regarded man:
Luke 19:46
Saying unto them, It is written, My house is the house of prayer: but you have made it a den of thieves.
Acts 4:5-11
And it came to pass on the next day, that their rulers, and elders, and scribes,