Isaiah 1:23
Thy princes are apostates, and companions of thieves, Every one loving a bribe, and pursuing rewards, The fatherless they judge not, And the plea of the widow cometh not to them.
Exodus 23:8
And a bribe thou dost not take; for the bribe bindeth the open -eyed, and perverteth the words of the righteous.
Micah 7:3
On the evil are both hands to do it well, The prince is asking -- also the judge -- for recompence, And the great -- he is speaking the mischief of his soul, And they wrap it up.
Zechariah 7:10
And widow, and fatherless, Sojourner, and poor, ye do not oppress, And the calamity of one another ye do not devise in your heart.
Deuteronomy 16:19
Thou dost not turn aside judgment; thou dost not discern faces, nor take a bribe, for the bribe blindeth the eyes of the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.
2 Chronicles 24:17-21
And after the death of Jehoiada come in have heads of Judah, and bow themselves to the king; then hath the king hearkened unto them,
2 Chronicles 36:14
Also, all the heads of the priests, and the people, having multiplied to commit a trespass according to all the abominations of the nations, and they defile the house of Jehovah that He hath sanctified in Jerusalem.
Proverbs 17:23
A bribe from the bosom the wicked taketh, To turn aside the paths of judgment.
Proverbs 29:24
Whoso is sharing with a thief is hating his own soul, Execration he heareth, and telleth not.
Isaiah 3:14
Jehovah into judgment doth enter With elders of His people, and its heads: 'And ye, ye have consumed the vineyard, Plunder of the poor is in your houses.
Isaiah 10:1-2
Woe to those decreeing decrees of iniquity, And writers who have prescribed perverseness.
Isaiah 33:15
Whoso is walking righteously, And is speaking uprightly, Kicking against gain of oppressions, Shaking his hands from taking hold on a bribe, Stopping his ear from hearing of blood, And shutting his eyes from looking on evil,
Jeremiah 5:5
I get me to the great, and I speak with them, For they have known the way of Jehovah, The judgment of their God.' Surely they together have broken the yoke, They have drawn away the bands.
Jeremiah 5:28-29
They have been fat, they have shone, Yea, they have overpassed the acts of the evil, Judgment they have not judged, The judgment of the fatherless -- and they prosper, And the judgment of the needy they have not judged.
Jeremiah 22:17
But thine eyes and thy heart are not, Except on thy dishonest gain, And on shedding of innocent blood, And on oppression, and on doing of violence.
Ezekiel 22:6-12
Lo, princes of Israel -- each according to his arm Have been in thee to shed blood.
Daniel 9:5-6
we have sinned, and done perversely, and done wickedly, and rebelled, to turn aside from Thy commands, and from Thy judgments:
Hosea 4:18
Sour is their drink, They have gone diligently a-whoring, Her protectors have loved shame thoroughly.
Hosea 7:3-5
With their wickedness they make glad a king, And with their lies -- princes.
Hosea 9:15
All their evil is in Gilgal, Surely there I have hated them, Because of the evil of their doings, Out of My house I do drive them, I add not to love them, all their heads are apostates.
Micah 3:1-3
And I say, 'Hear, I pray you, heads of Jacob, And ye judges of the house of Israel, Is it not for you to know the judgment?
Micah 3:11
Her heads for a bribe do judge, And her priests for hire do teach, And her prophets for silver divine, And on Jehovah they lean, saying, 'Is not Jehovah in our midst? Evil doth not come in upon us.'
Malachi 3:5
And I have drawn near to you for judgment, And I have been a witness, Making haste against sorcerers, And against adulterers, And against swearers to a falsehood, And against oppressors of the hire of an hireling, Of a widow, and of a fatherless one, And those turning aside a sojourner, And who fear Me not, said Jehovah of Hosts.
Matthew 21:13
and he saith to them, 'It hath been written, My house a house of prayer shall be called, but ye did make it a den of robbers.'
Mark 11:17
and he was teaching, saying to them, 'Hath it not been written -- My house a house of prayer shall be called for all the nations, and ye did make it a den of robbers?'
Luke 18:2-5
saying, 'A certain judge was in a certain city -- God he is not fearing, and man he is not regarding --
Luke 19:46
saying to them, 'It hath been written, My house is a house of prayer -- but ye made it a den of robbers.'
Acts 4:5-11
And it came to pass upon the morrow, there were gathered together of them the rulers, and elders, and scribes, to Jerusalem,