Proverbs 15:27
He, troubleth his own house, who graspeth with greed, but, he that hateth gifts, shall live.
Exodus 23:8
And, a bribe, shalt thou not take, - for the bribe, blindeth the clear-sighted, and perverteth the words of the righteous.
Proverbs 1:19
Such are the ways of every one that graspeth with greed, The life of the owners thereof, it taketh away!
Deuteronomy 16:19
Thou shalt not wrest judgment, thou shalt not take note of faces, - nor shalt thou accept a bribe, for the bribe, blindeth the eyes of wise men, and perverteth the words of righteous men.
Proverbs 11:29
He that troubleth his own house, shall inherit the wind, but, a servant, shall the foolish be, to the wise in heart.
Jeremiah 17:11
As a partridge gathereth eggs she did not lay, So is he that maketh riches but not with justice, - In the midst of his days, shall he leave them, And in his latter end, prove to have been base.
Exodus 18:21
Thou thyself, therefore shalt look out, from among all the people - men of ability, reverers of God, men of fidelity, haters of extortion, - and place them over them as rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
Deuteronomy 7:26
and thou shalt not bring an abomination into thy house, and so become devoted to destruction, like it, thou shalt, abhor, it, and thou shalt, loathe it, because a thing devoted to destruction, it is.
Joshua 6:18
But, in any wise, do, ye, beware of what is devoted, lest ye should covet, and then take of what is devoted, - and so cause the camp of Israel to be devoted, and bring trouble upon it.
Joshua 7:11-12
Israel hath sinned, yea moreover they have transgressed my covenant which I commanded them, - yea moreover they have taken of what was devoted, yea moreover they have stolen, yea moreover they have dissembled, yea moreover they have put it among their own goods.
Joshua 7:24-25
And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan - son of Zerah, and the silver and the mantle and the wedge of gold, and his sons and his daughters, and his oxen and his asses and his sheep and his tent, and all that he had, and brought them up the valley of Achor.
1 Samuel 8:3-5
Howbeit his sons walked not in his ways, but stooped to extortion, - and took bribes, and perverted judgment.
2 Kings 5:27
The leprosy of Naaman, therefore, shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed, to times age-abiding. And he went forth from before him - a leper - like snow.
Proverbs 11:19
A righteous son, turneth to life, but, he that pursueth wickedness, to his own death.
Proverbs 20:21
An inheritance hastily gotten at the beginning, the latter end thereof, shall not bring blessing.
Proverbs 28:16
A leader, may lack intelligence, yet abound in oppressions, The hater of greed, shall lengthen out days.
Proverbs 29:4
A king, by justice, shall establish a land, - but, a man open to bribes, bringeth it to ruin.
Isaiah 5:8-10
Alas for them who join house to house, Field to field, bring they near, - Until there is no room, But ye are left to dwell alone in the midst of the land.
Isaiah 33:15-16
He that walketh righteously, And speaketh uprightly, - He that refuseth the gain of exactions That shaketh his hands free from holding a bribe, That stoppeth his ear from hearkening to deeds of blood, And shutteth his eyes from giving countenance to wrong,
Habakkuk 2:9-11
Alas! for him who extorteth an extortion of wrong for his own house, - that he may set on high his nest, that he may be delivered from the grasp of calamity.
Zechariah 5:3-4
Then said he unto me, This, is the curse, which is going forth over the face of all the earth, - Because, every one who stealeth, on the one side, hath in one way been let off, and, every one who sweareth, on the other side, hath in another way been let off,