Isaiah 1:23
your rulers are rebellious, and companions of thieves; everyone loves a bribe, and is pursuing rewards; they do not judge the orphan, nor does the cause of the widow come to 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
Both hands are on evil, to do it well. The ruler asks for a bribe, and the judge also; and the great man speaks the evil desire of his soul. So they weave it together.
Zechariah 7:10
And do not crush the widow or the orphan, the alien or the poor. And do not devise evil in your heart, of a man against his brother.
Deuteronomy 16:19
You shall not pervert judgment; you shall not respect persons, nor take a gift. For a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.
2 Chronicles 24:17-21
And after the death of Jehoiada the rulers of Judah came and bowed down to the king. And the king listened to them.
2 Chronicles 36:14
Also all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the nations. And they polluted the house of Jehovah which He had made holy in Jerusalem.
Proverbs 17:23
A wicked man takes a bribe out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.
Proverbs 29:24
He who shares with a thief hates his own soul; he hears an oath and does not tell.
Isaiah 3:14
Jehovah will enter into judgment with the elders of His people, and their kings; for you have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.
Isaiah 10:1-2
Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the scribes who write toil;
Isaiah 33:15
He who walks righteously and speaks uprightly; he who despises the gain of oppressions, who shakes his hands free from holding bribes, who stops his ear from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from seeing evil;
Jeremiah 5:5
I will go up for myself to the great men, and will speak to them; for they have known the way of Jehovah and the judgment of their God. But these have broken the yoke together and have torn off the bonds!
Jeremiah 5:28-29
They have become fat, they shine. Yes, they go past the deeds of the wicked; they do not judge the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may get rich; and they do not judge the right of the needy.
Jeremiah 22:17
But your eyes and your heart are for nothing but your unjust gain, and to shed innocent blood, and for cruelty, and to do violence.
Ezekiel 22:6-12
Behold, the rulers of Israel, each man by his might, have been in you in order 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 commandments and from Your judgments.
Hosea 4:18
Their drink is sour; they are continually fornicating; her rulers dearly love shame.
Hosea 7:3-5
They make the king glad with their evil, and the rulers with their lies.
Hosea 9:15
All their wickedness is in Gilgal, for there I hated them. I will drive them out of My house for the wickedness of their doings. I will love them no more; all their rulers are revolters.
Micah 3:1-3
And I said, Please hear, O heads of Jacob and magistrates of the house of Israel. Is it not for you to know justice?
Micah 3:11
Her heads judge for a bribe, and her priests teach for pay, and her prophets divine for silver, yet they will lean on Jehovah and say, Is not Jehovah among us? No evil can come on us!
Malachi 3:5
And I will come near you to judgment. And I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those who extort from the hired laborer's wages, and turning away the widow, and the orphan, the alien, and not fearing Me, says Jehovah of Hosts.
Matthew 21:13
And He said to 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 to them, Is it not written, "My house shall be called the house of prayer for all nations?" But you have made it a den of thieves.
Luke 18:2-5
saying, A certain judge was in a certain city, not fearing God, nor respecting man.
Luke 19:46
saying to them, It is written, "My house is a house of prayer," but you have made it a den of thieves.
Acts 4:5-11
And it happened on the next day that their rulers and elders and scribes, gathered to Jerusalem,