Isaiah 1:23
Your rulers are rebellious, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards. They do not judge the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.
Exodus 23:8
"You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have sight and perverts the words of the righteous.
Micah 7:3
Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe; and the powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.
Zechariah 7:10
Do not oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.'
Deuteronomy 16:19
You shall not wrest justice: you shall not respect persons; neither shall you 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 the leaders of Judah came and paid homage to the king. And the king listened to them.
2 Chronicles 36:14
Moreover all the chiefs of the priests, and the people, trespassed very greatly after all the abominations of the nations; and they polluted the house of the LORD which he had made holy in Jerusalem.
Proverbs 17:23
A wicked man receives a bribe in secret, to pervert the ways of justice.
Proverbs 29:24
Whoever is an accomplice of a thief is an enemy of his own soul. He takes an oath, but dares not testify.
Isaiah 3:14
The LORD will enter into judgment with the elders of his people, and their leaders: "It is you who 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 writers who write oppressive decrees;
Isaiah 33:15
He who walks righteously, and speaks blamelessly; He who despises the gain of oppressions, who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil?
Jeremiah 5:5
I will go to the great men, and will speak to them; for they know the way of the LORD, and the law of their God." But these with one accord have broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.
Jeremiah 5:28-29
They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excel in deeds of wickedness. They do not plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they do not judge the right of the needy.
Jeremiah 22:17
"But your eyes and your heart are not 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, everyone according to his power, have been in you to shed blood.
Daniel 9:5-6
We have sinned, and have done what is wrong and wicked, and have rebelled, even turning aside from your commandments and from your ordinances.
Hosea 4:18
Their drink has become sour. They play the prostitute continually. Her rulers dearly love their shameful way.
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. Because of the wickedness of their deeds I will drive them out of my house. I will love them no more. All their rulers are rebels.
Micah 3:1-3
I said, "Please listen, you heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: Isn't it for you to know justice?
Micah 3:11
Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money: yet they lean on the LORD, and say, "Isn't the LORD in the midst of us? No disaster will come on us."
Malachi 3:5
I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and do not fear me," says the LORD of hosts.
Matthew 21:13
He said to them, "It is written, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer,' but you have made it a den of robbers."
Mark 11:17
He taught, saying to them, "Is not it written, 'My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations?' But you have made it a den of robbers."
Luke 18:2-5
saying, "There was a judge in a certain city who did not fear God, and did not respect 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 robbers'."
Acts 4:5-11
It happened in the morning, that their rulers, elders, and scribes were gathered together in Jerusalem.