Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Bribery » Condemned
Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.
In whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes.
A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.
Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!
He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth 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 taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.
Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; 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 taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.
The Nation » Bribery » Condemned
Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.
In whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes.
A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.
Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!
He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth 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.