11 Bible Verses about Corrupt Priests

I will punish your children and rub your faces in the dung of the animals you sacrifice! You will be taken away with the dung heap of your feasts.

Prophets prophesy falsehoods. Priests rule under the prophets' directions, and my people love this. 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 profane. They have not taught the difference between the unclean and the clean. They hide their eyes from my Sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.

Hear this, O you priests and pay attention, O house of Israel. Give ear (listen)! O house of the king the judgment is about you. You have been a snare at Mizpah and a net spread upon Tabor.

As marauders lie in ambush for a man, so do bands of priests. They murder on the road to Shechem, committing shameful crimes.

The leaders judge for a bribe, and the priests teach for wages! The prophets predict for money yet they rely on Jehovah when they say: Is not Jehovah in the midst of us? No evil will come upon us.

Her prophets are insolent and treacherous persons. Her priests have profaned the sanctuary! They have done violence to the law.

The chief priests and elders got the people to request Barabbas, and for Jesus to be put to death.

In like manner the chief priests, scribes, and elders mocked him.

The chief priests influenced the crowd, that he should release Barabbas to them instead.

When the chief priests and officers saw him, they cried out: Impale him! Impale him! Pilate replied: Take him yourselves, and impale him for he has committed no crime!