Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Bribery » Condemned
Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves. All of them are lovers of bribes and are runners after gifts. They don't bring justice to orphans, and the widow's case never comes up for review in their court."
You are not to take a bribe because a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and distorts the words of the righteous.
Their hands are filled with wicked schemes, and their right hands with bribes.
The wicked man takes a bribe in secret in order to pervert the course of justice.
The one who walks righteously and has spoken sincere words, who rejects gain from extortion and waves his hand, rejecting bribes, who blocks his ears from hearing plots of murder and shuts his eyes against seeing evil
and because I know that your transgressions are many, and your sins are numerous as you oppose the righteous, taking bribes as a ransom, and turning away the poor in court
Presents » Were given » To judges to secure a favorable hearing
The wicked man takes a bribe in secret in order to pervert the course of justice.
This is what the LORD says: "For three transgressions of Israel and now for a fourth I will not turn away; because they sold the righteous for money, and the poor for sandals,
The judgment of babylon » Who perverts the ways of judgment
The wicked man takes a bribe in secret in order to pervert the course of justice.
The Nation » Bribery » Condemned
Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves. All of them are lovers of bribes and are runners after gifts. They don't bring justice to orphans, and the widow's case never comes up for review in their court."
You are not to take a bribe because a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and distorts the words of the righteous.
Their hands are filled with wicked schemes, and their right hands with bribes.
The wicked man takes a bribe in secret in order to pervert the course of justice.
The one who walks righteously and has spoken sincere words, who rejects gain from extortion and waves his hand, rejecting bribes, who blocks his ears from hearing plots of murder and shuts his eyes against seeing evil
and because I know that your transgressions are many, and your sins are numerous as you oppose the righteous, taking bribes as a ransom, and turning away the poor in court