Proverbs 15:27

A Wise Son Brings Blessings To Others

²⁶ The thoughts of the wicked are very hateful to Jehovah, but the words of the pure are pleasant words. ²⁷ He who is greedy for gain troubles his own house, but he who hates bribes shall live. ²⁸ The heart of the righteous studies to answer, but the mouth of the wicked pours out evil things.

Greedy for Gain

No

Exodus 23:8

And you shall take no bribe, for the bribe blinds the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.

Proverbs 1:19

So are the ways of everyone who gains unjust gain; it takes away its owners' life.

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.

Proverbs 11:29

He who troubles his own house shall inherit the wind; and the fool shall be servant to the wise in heart.

Jeremiah 17:11

The quail sits on eggs and does not hatch them; in the same way he who gets riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the middle of his days, and in his end he shall be a fool.

Exodus 18:21

And you shall look 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, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

Deuteronomy 7:26

And you shall not bring an abomination into your house, lest you be a cursed thing like it. You shall utterly hate it, and you shall utterly despise it. For it is a cursed thing.

Joshua 6:18

And you surely shall keep clear of the cursed thing, lest you make yourselves cursed when you take of the cursed things, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it.

Joshua 7:11-12

Israel has sinned, and they have also broken My covenant which I commanded them, and have even taken of the cursed things, and have also stolen and pretended falsely. 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 garment, 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 they brought them to the valley of Achor.

1 Samuel 8:3-5

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

2 Kings 5:27

And the leprosy of Naaman shall cling to you and to your seed forever. And he went out from his presence as leprous as snow.

Proverbs 11:19

So righteousness tends to life; but one pursuing evil, it is to his own death.

Proverbs 20:21

An inheritance gotten hastily in the beginning, even the end of it shall not be blessed.

Proverbs 28:16

A ruler lacking understanding even adds oppressions; he who hates unjust gain shall prolong his days.

Proverbs 29:4

The king establishes the land by judgment; but he taking bribes tears it down.

Isaiah 5:8-10

Woe to those who join house to house, laying field to field, until the end of space, and you are made to dwell alone in the middle 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 free from holding bribes, who stops his ear from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from seeing evil;

Habakkuk 2:9-11

Woe to him who robs evil booty for his house, to set his nest on high, to be delivered from the hand of evil!

Zechariah 5:3-4

And he said to me, This is the curse that goes forth over the face of the whole earth; for from now on everyone who steals shall be cut off according to it; and everyone who swears from now on shall be cut off according to it.