Isaiah 1:23
Your princes [are] rebels and companions of thieves. Every one loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not defend [the] orphan and [the] legal dispute of [the] widow does not come before them.
Exodus 23:8
And you will not take a bribe, because the bribe makes [the] sighted blind and ruins [the] words of [the] righteous.
Micah 7:3
Their hands [are] upon evil, to do [it] well; the official and the judge ask for the bribe, and the great [man] utters the evil desire of his soul; and they weave [it] together.
Zechariah 7:10
You must not oppress [the] widow, [the] orphan, [the] foreigner, and [the] needy. You must not devise evil in your heart {against one another}.'
Deuteronomy 16:19
You shall not subvert justice; you shall not {show partiality}; and you shall not take a bribe, for the bribe makes blind [the] eyes of [the] wise and misrepresents [the] words of [the] righteous.
2 Chronicles 24:17-21
Now after the death of Jehoiada, the princes of Judah came and bowed down to the king. Then the king listened to them.
2 Chronicles 36:14
All the leaders of the priests and the people likewise increased in unfaithfulness according to all the detestable things of the nations. And they polluted the house of Yahweh that he had consecrated in Jerusalem.
Proverbs 17:23
The wicked will accept a bribe from the lap, [in order] to pervert the ways of justice.
Proverbs 29:24
Being a partner with a thief is hating one's life; a curse he will hear, but not disclose.
Isaiah 3:14
Yahweh enters into judgment with the elders of his people and its princes. "And you! You have devoured the vineyard; the spoil of the poor [is] in your houses!
Isaiah 10:1-2
Ah! Those who decree decrees of evil, and writers who have written harm,
Isaiah 33:15
He who walks [in] righteousness and speaks uprightness, who rejects [the] gain of extortion, who {refuses} bribe, who stops up his ears from hearing {bloodshed} and shuts his eyes from seeing evil.
Jeremiah 5:5
Let me go to the great, and let me speak with them, for they know the way of Yahweh, the law of their God." However, they together have broken [the] yoke, they have torn to pieces [the] bonds.
Jeremiah 5:28-29
They have grown fat, they have grown sleek, also, {their evil deeds have no limit}. They do not judge [with] justice, [the] legal cause of [the] orphan, or allow it to succeed, and [the] legal case of [the] poor, they do not defend.
Jeremiah 22:17
"But there is nothing [in] your eyes and your heart {except} your unlawful gain, and on shedding the blood of the innocent, and on committing oppression and extortion."
Ezekiel 22:6-12
Look! The princes of Israel, each [one] according to his strength, they are in you {for the shedding of blood}.
Daniel 9:5-6
we have sinned and we have done wrong and we acted wickedly and we rebelled and [have been] turning aside from your commandments and from your ordinances.
Hosea 4:18
When their drinking has ended, they surely indulge in sexual orgies. They love lewdness more than their glory.
Hosea 7:3-5
By their wickedness they make [the] king glad, and [the] officials by their treacheries.
Hosea 9:15
Every evil of theirs [began] at Gilgal, so I [began] to hate them there; because of the evil of their deeds I will drive them out from my house. I will love them no more; all their officials [are] rebels.
Micah 3:1-3
And I said, "Listen, O heads of Jacob and leaders of the house of Israel! [Is it] not for you to know justice?
Micah 3:11
Its rulers judge for a bribe; its priests teach for a price; its prophets practice divination for money. But they lean on Yahweh, saying, "[Is] not Yahweh in our midst? Disaster will not come upon us."
Malachi 3:5
"Then I will approach you for judgment, and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers and against the adulterers, and against those who swear {falsely}, and against the oppressors of [the] hired worker [with his] wages, [the] widow and [the] orphan, and {the abusers of} [the] alien, and [yet] do not fear me," says Yahweh of hosts.
Matthew 21:13
And he said to them, "It is written, 'My house will be called a house of prayer,' but you have made it a cave of robbers!"
Mark 11:17
And he began to teach and was saying to them, "Is it not written, 'My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations,' but you have made it a cave of robbers!"
Luke 18:2-5
saying, "There was a certain judge in a certain town who did not fear God and did not respect people.
Luke 19:46
saying to them, "It is written, 'And my house will be a house of prayer,' but you have made it a cave of robbers!"
Acts 4:5-11
And it happened that on the next day, their rulers and elders and scribes came together in Jerusalem,