7 Bible Verses about Bribery

Your rulers are rebels, friends with thieves. They all love bribes and run after gifts. They never defend orphans. They do not listen to the widows' pleas.

Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe makes the discerning blind to what is right and perverts the words of the righteous.

Evil schemes are in their hands. Their right hands are full of bribes.

A wicked man takes a bribe to pervert the ways of judgment.

You let the guilty go free for a bribe and you keep the innocent from getting justice.

Let there be an agreement between us just as there was between my father and your father. I have sent you an offering of silver and gold. End your agreement with Baasha, king of Israel that he may give up attacking me.

The five Philistine kings said to her: Entice Samson into telling you why he is so strong and how we can overpower him. Tie him up, and make him helpless. Each one of us will give you eleven hundred pieces of silver.

The sons did not follow their father's example but turned to dishonest ways of making money. They took bribes and denied people justice.

If it is the king's pleasure, let a statement ordering their destruction be put in writing. I will give to those responsible for the king's business, ten thousand talents of silver for the king's storehouse.

They took counsel with the elders. Then they bribed the soldiers.

Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe makes the discerning blind to what is right and perverts the words of the righteous.

Never pervert justice. Always be impartial. Never take a bribe, because bribes blind wise people and deny justice to those who are in the right.

A man's gift makes room for him, and brings him before great men.

Oppression makes a wise man foolish (emotionally unstable) (mentally ill) and a bribe destroys the heart.

Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe makes the discerning blind to what is right and perverts the words of the righteous.

Never pervert justice. Always be impartial. Never take a bribe, because bribes blind wise people and deny justice to those who are in the right.

Do your work in honor of him and know that he will not allow you to be unfair to anyone or to take bribes.

They were glad to hear it and promised to give him money. He looked for ways how he might conveniently deliver Jesus to them.

He asked them: What are you willing to give me to deliver him to you? They paid him thirty pieces of silver.

Judas, his betrayer, heard he was to be put to death. Out of regret, he took the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and those in authority. He said: I have done wrong in giving a righteous man to you. He left the silver in the Temple. Then he went away and hanged himself. read more.
The chief priests took the silver. They said: It is not right to put it in the Temple treasury, for it is the price of blood. They decided to use the silver to buy the potter's field. This would be a place to bury strangers. This is the reason the field was named Field of Blood. Then Jeremiah's prophecy was fulfilled: They took the thirty pieces of silver, the price he was valued by the children of Israel.

They were glad, and pledged to give him money.

He who walks righteously and speaks what is right, who rejects gain from extortion and keeps his hand from accepting bribes, who stops his ears against plots of murder and shuts his eyes against contemplating evil. This man will dwell on the heights. His refuge will be the mountain fortress. His bread will be supplied, and he will have water.

He who is greedy of gain troubles his own house. But he who hates gifts will live.

The king establishes the land by justice. He who receives gifts overthrows it.

They took counsel with the elders. Then they bribed the soldiers. The soldiers were instructed to say: His disciples came at night and stole him while we slept. If the governor hears about this, we will persuade him so you may be free from worry. read more.
So they took the money and did as they were told. This saying was spread abroad among the Jews, and continues until this day.

And I went to the house of Shemaiah, the son of Delaiah, the son of Mehetabel, who was confined in his house. He said: Let us have a meeting in the house of God, inside the Temple, and let the doors be closed for they will come to kill you. Truly, in the night they will come to kill you. I replied: Am I the sort of man to go in flight? What man, in my position, would go into the Temple to keep safe? I will not go in. Then it became clear to me that God had not sent him. He spoke prophecy against me. Tobiah and Sanballat paid him money to do so. read more.
For this reason they paid him money, in order that I might be overcome by fear and do what he said and do wrong. Then they would have reason to say evil about me and put shame on me.

Let there be an agreement between us just as there was between my father and your father. I have sent you an offering of silver and gold. End your agreement with Baasha, king of Israel that he may give up attacking me.

The company of the godless will be barren. And fire will consume the tents of those who love bribes.

He hoped that Paul would give him money to free him. He sent for him frequently and conversed with him.

The five Philistine kings said to her: Entice Samson into telling you why he is so strong and how we can overpower him. Tie him up, and make him helpless. Each one of us will give you eleven hundred pieces of silver.

If it is the king's pleasure, let a statement ordering their destruction be put in writing. I will give to those responsible for the king's business, ten thousand talents of silver for the king's storehouse.

Your rulers are rebels, friends with thieves. They all love bribes and run after gifts. They never defend orphans. They do not listen to the widows' pleas.

Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe makes the discerning blind to what is right and perverts the words of the righteous.

Evil schemes are in their hands. Their right hands are full of bribes.

A wicked man takes a bribe to pervert the ways of judgment.

You let the guilty go free for a bribe and you keep the innocent from getting justice.

Let there be an agreement between us just as there was between my father and your father. I have sent you an offering of silver and gold. End your agreement with Baasha, king of Israel that he may give up attacking me.

The five Philistine kings said to her: Entice Samson into telling you why he is so strong and how we can overpower him. Tie him up, and make him helpless. Each one of us will give you eleven hundred pieces of silver.

The sons did not follow their father's example but turned to dishonest ways of making money. They took bribes and denied people justice.

If it is the king's pleasure, let a statement ordering their destruction be put in writing. I will give to those responsible for the king's business, ten thousand talents of silver for the king's storehouse.

They took counsel with the elders. Then they bribed the soldiers.