Proverbs 15:27

A Wise Son Brings Blessings To Others

²⁶ Evil devices are an abomination to LORD, but pleasant words [are] pure. ²⁷ He who is greedy of gain troubles his own house, but he who hates bribes shall live. ²⁸ The heart of a righteous man meditates to answer, but the mouth of the wicked pours out evil things.

Greedy for Gain

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Exodus 23:8

And thou shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have sight, and perverts the words of the righteous.

Proverbs 1:19

So are the ways of everyone who is greedy of gain. It takes away the life of the owners of it.

Deuteronomy 16:19

Thou shall not distort justice. Thou shall not respect persons, neither shall thou take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise, and perverts the words of the righteous.

Proverbs 11:29

He who troubles his own house shall inherit the wind. And a foolish man shall be servant to a wise man of heart.

Jeremiah 17:11

As the partridge that sits on [eggs] which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right. In the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool.

Exodus 18:21

Moreover thou shall provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating unjust gain, and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens,

Deuteronomy 7:26

And thou shall not bring an abomination into thy house, and become a devoted thing like it. Thou shall utterly detest it, and thou shall utterly abhor it, for it is a cursed thing.

Joshua 6:18

But as for you, only keep yourselves from what is set apart, lest when ye have set it apart, ye take from what is set apart. So ye would make the camp of Israel accursed, and trouble it.

Joshua 7:11-12

Israel has sinned. Yes, they have even transgressed my covenant which I commanded them. Yes, they have even taken from what was set apart, and have also stolen, and also dissembled. And they have even put it among their own stuff.

Joshua 7:24-25

And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the 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 donkeys, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he h

1 Samuel 8:3-5

And his sons did not walk in his ways, but turned aside after dishonest gain, and took bribes, and perverted justice.

2 Kings 5:27

The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cling to thee, and to thy seed forever. And he went out from his presence a leper [as white] as snow.

Proverbs 11:19

He who is steadfast in righteousness [comes] to life, and he who pursues evil [comes] to his own death.

Proverbs 20:21

An inheritance gotten hastily at the beginning shall not be blessed in the end.

Proverbs 28:16

The ruler who lacks understanding is also a great oppressor, [but] he who hates covetousness shall prolong his days.

Proverbs 29:4

By justice the king establishes the land, but he who exacts gifts overthrows it.

Isaiah 5:8-10

Woe to those who join house to house, who lay field to field, till there is no room, and ye be made to dwell alone in the midst of the land!

Isaiah 33:15-16

He who walks righteously, and speaks uprightly. He who despises the gain of oppressions, who shakes his hands from taking a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from looking upon evil.

Habakkuk 2:9-11

Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!

Zechariah 5:3-4

Then he said to me, This is the curse that goes forth over the face of the whole land. For everyone who steals shall be cut off on the one side according to it, and everyone who swears shall be cut off on the other side according t