Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
In whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes.
In
Bible References
In
Psalm 10:14
[But] you have seen; indeed you have noted trouble and grief to take [it] into your hand. The helpless abandons [himself] upon you; you have been [the] helper [for the] orphan.
Psalm 11:2
For look: The wicked {string the bow}. They have fitted their arrow to [the] string, to shoot from [the] darkness at the upright of heart.
Psalm 36:4
He plans sin on his bed. He puts himself on a way [that is] not good. He does not reject evil.
Psalm 52:2
Your tongue plans destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceit.
Psalm 55:9
Confuse, O Lord; divide their speech, because I see violence and strife in the city.
Proverbs 1:16
for their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed blood,
Proverbs 4:16
For they will not sleep if they have not done wrong, and they are robbed of their sleep if they do not cause stumbling.
Micah 2:1
Woe [to] those who plan wickedness and evil deeds upon their beds! In the light of the morning they did it, because they have power in their hands.
Matthew 26:3
Then the chief priests and the elders of the people assembled in the palace of the high priest, who was named Caiaphas,
Acts 23:12
And [when it] was day, the Jews made a conspiracy [and] bound themselves under a curse, saying [they would] neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.
Bribes
Exodus 23:8
And you will not take a bribe, because the bribe makes [the] sighted blind and ruins [the] words of [the] righteous.
Deuteronomy 16:19
You shall not subvert justice; you shall not {show partiality}; and you shall not take a bribe, for the bribe makes blind [the] eyes of [the] wise and misrepresents [the] words of [the] righteous.
1 Samuel 8:3
But his sons did not walk in his ways; they turned aside after gain, they took bribes, and they perverted justice.
Isaiah 33:15
He who walks [in] righteousness and speaks uprightness, who rejects [the] gain of extortion, who {refuses} bribe, who stops up his ears from hearing {bloodshed} and shuts his eyes from seeing evil.
Ezekiel 22:12
They take a bribe among you in order to shed blood; and you take usury, and you make gain [from] your neighbors by extortion, and [so] you have forgotten me, {declares} the Lord Yahweh.
Amos 5:12
For I know your transgressions [are] many and your sins [are] numerous, [you] foes of [the] righteous, those who take a bribe, and {those who} push aside [the] poor [ones] in the gate!
Micah 7:3
Their hands [are] upon evil, to do [it] well; the official and the judge ask for the bribe, and the great [man] utters the evil desire of his soul; and they weave [it] together.