11 Bible Verses about Corrupt Priests

Behold, I will rebuke your offspring, and spread dung on your faces, the dung of your offerings, and you shall be taken away with it.

the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule at their direction; my people love to have it so, but what will you do when the end comes?

Her priests have done violence to my law and have profaned my holy things. They have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they taught the difference between the unclean and the clean, and they have disregarded my Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.

Hear this, O priests! Pay attention, O house of Israel! Give ear, O house of the king! For the judgment is for you; for you have been a snare at Mizpah and a net spread upon Tabor.

As robbers lie in wait for a man, so the priests band together; they murder on the way to Shechem; they commit villainy.

Its heads give judgment for a bribe; its priests teach for a price; its prophets practice divination for money; yet they lean on the LORD and say, "Is not the LORD in the midst of us? No disaster shall come upon us."

Her prophets are fickle, treacherous men; her priests profane what is holy; they do violence to the law.

Now the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowd to ask for Barabbas and destroy Jesus.

So also the chief priests, with the scribes and elders, mocked him, saying,

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

When the chief priests and the officers saw him, they cried out, "Crucify him, crucify him!" Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves and crucify him, for I find no guilt in him."