11 Bible Verses about Corrupt Priests

Behold, I am going to rebuke your offspring, and I will spread refuse on your faces, the refuse of your feasts; and you will be taken away with it.

The prophets prophesy falsely,
And the priests rule on their own authority;
And My people love it so!
But what will you do at the end of it?

Her priests have done violence to My law and have profaned My holy things; they have made no distinction between the holy and the profane, and they have not taught the difference between the unclean and the clean; and they hide their eyes from My sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.

Hear this, O priests!
Give heed, O house of Israel!
Listen, O house of the king!
For the judgment applies to you,
For you have been a snare at Mizpah
And a net spread out on Tabor.

And as raiders wait for a man,
So a band of priests murder on the way to Shechem;
Surely they have committed crime.

Her leaders pronounce judgment for a bribe,
Her priests instruct for a price
And her prophets divine for money.
Yet they lean on the Lord saying,
“Is not the Lord in our midst?
Calamity will not come upon us.”

Her prophets are reckless, treacherous men;
Her priests have profaned the sanctuary.
They have done violence to the law.

But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowds to ask for Barabbas and to put Jesus to death.

In the same way the chief priests also, along with the scribes and elders, were mocking Him and saying,

But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to ask him to release Barabbas for them instead.

So when the chief priests and the officers saw Him, they cried out saying, “Crucify, crucify!” Pilate *said to them, “Take Him yourselves and crucify Him, for I find no guilt in Him.”