7 Bible Verses about Bribery, Results Of

in whose hands is wickedness, their right hand is full of bribes.

"You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have sight and perverts the words of the righteous.

Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards. They don't judge the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

For I know how many your offenses, and how great are your sins -- you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn aside the needy in the courts.

Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Israel, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes;

A wicked man receives a bribe in secret, to pervert the ways of justice.

The king by justice makes the land stable, but he who takes bribes tears it down.