Proverbs 19:6
Many will seek favor before the generous, and everyone [is] the friend of a man of gifts.
Proverbs 17:8
The bribe [is] a stone of magic in the eyes of its owner; {everywhere} he will turn, he will prosper.
Proverbs 18:16
The gift of a person will open doors for him, and before the great, it gives him access.
Proverbs 29:26
Many are those who seek the {favor} of a ruler, but from Yahweh {one obtains justice}.
Proverbs 21:14
A gift in secret will avert {anger}, and a {concealed bribe}, strong wrath.
Genesis 32:20
And moreover, you shall say, 'Look, your servant Jacob [is] behind us.'" For he thought, "{Let me appease him} with the gift going before me, and afterward I will see his face. Perhaps he will {show me favor}."
Genesis 42:6
Now Joseph was the governor over the land. He [was] the one who sold [food] to all the people of the land. And the brothers of Joseph came and bowed down to him with their faces to the ground.
Genesis 43:15
So the men took this gift, and they took double money in their hands, and Benjamin, and they rose up and went down to Egypt and stood before Joseph.
2 Samuel 19:19-39
and he said to the king, "May not my lord hold me guilty, and may you not remember how your servant did wrong on the day that my lord the king went out from Jerusalem, by taking it to heart!
Job 29:24-25
I smiled for them [when] they had no confidence [in anything], and they did not extinguish the light of my face.
Psalm 45:12
Even the daughter of Tyre [will come] with a gift. [The] rich from among people will seek your {favor}.
Proverbs 16:15
In the light of the face of the king [there is] life, and his favor [is] like a cloud of spring rain.
Proverbs 19:12
The rage of a king growls like a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.
Matthew 2:11
And [when they] came into the house, they saw the child with Mary his mother, and they fell down [and] worshiped him. And opening their treasure boxes, they offered him gifts of gold and frankincense and myrrh.
Romans 6:23
For the compensation due sin [is] death, but the gift of God [is] eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.