Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Bribery » Condemned
Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come before them.
And you shall take no bribe: for the bribe blinds the wise, and perverts the words of the righteous.
In whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes.
A wicked man takes a bribe out of the bosom to pervert the ways of justice.
Who justify the wicked for a bribe, and take away the justice of the righteous from him!
He that walks righteously, and speaks uprightly; he that despises the gain of oppressions, that keeps his hands from the holding of bribes, that stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed, and shuts his eyes from seeing evil;
For I know your manifold transgressions, and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.
Presents » Were given » To judges to secure a favorable hearing
A wicked man takes a bribe out of the bosom to pervert the ways of justice.
Thus says the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;
The judgment of babylon » Who perverts the ways of judgment
A wicked man takes a bribe out of the bosom to pervert the ways of justice.
The Nation » Bribery » Condemned
Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come before them.
And you shall take no bribe: for the bribe blinds the wise, and perverts the words of the righteous.
In whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes.
A wicked man takes a bribe out of the bosom to pervert the ways of justice.
Who justify the wicked for a bribe, and take away the justice of the righteous from him!
He that walks righteously, and speaks uprightly; he that despises the gain of oppressions, that keeps his hands from the holding of bribes, that stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed, and shuts his eyes from seeing evil;
For I know your manifold transgressions, and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.