Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Bribery » Condemned
Thy princes are traitors and companions of thieves. They love gifts altogether, and gape for rewards. As for the fatherless, they help him not to his right, neither will they let the widows causes come before them.
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Thou shalt take no gifts, for gifts blind the seeing and pervert the words of the righteous.
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in whose hands is wickedness, and their righthand is full of gifts.
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The ungodly taketh gifts out of the bosom, to wrest the ways of judgment.
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These give sentence with the ungodly for rewards, but condemn the just cause of the righteous.
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He that leadeth a godly life - say I - and speaketh the truth; He that abhorreth to do violence and deceit; he that keepeth his hand that he touch no reward; which stoppeth his ears, that he hear no counsel against the innocent; which holdeth down his eyes, that he see none evil.
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As for the multitude of your wickednesses and your stout sins, I know them right well. Enemies are ye of the righteous; ye take rewards; ye oppress the poor in judgment.
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hands » Of the wicked, described as » Mischievous
in whose hands is wickedness, and their righthand is full of gifts.
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yet they say they do well when they do evil. As the prince will, so sayeth the judge: that he may do him a pleasure again. The great man speaketh what his heart desireth; and the hearers allow him.
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hands » Right hand, illustrative » (full of bribes,) of corruption
in whose hands is wickedness, and their righthand is full of gifts.
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The Nation » Bribery » Condemned
Thy princes are traitors and companions of thieves. They love gifts altogether, and gape for rewards. As for the fatherless, they help him not to his right, neither will they let the widows causes come before them.
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Thou shalt take no gifts, for gifts blind the seeing and pervert the words of the righteous.
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in whose hands is wickedness, and their righthand is full of gifts.
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The ungodly taketh gifts out of the bosom, to wrest the ways of judgment.
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These give sentence with the ungodly for rewards, but condemn the just cause of the righteous.
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He that leadeth a godly life - say I - and speaketh the truth; He that abhorreth to do violence and deceit; he that keepeth his hand that he touch no reward; which stoppeth his ears, that he hear no counsel against the innocent; which holdeth down his eyes, that he see none evil.
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As for the multitude of your wickednesses and your stout sins, I know them right well. Enemies are ye of the righteous; ye take rewards; ye oppress the poor in judgment.
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