11 Bible Verses about Corrupt Priests

See, I will have your arm cut off, and will put waste on your faces, even the waste from your feasts; and you will be taken away with it.

The prophets give false words and the priests give decisions by their direction; and my people are glad to have it so: and what will you do in the end?

Her priests have been acting violently against my law; they have made my holy things unclean: they have made no division between what is holy and what is common, and they have not made it clear that the unclean is different from the clean, and their eyes have been shut to my Sabbaths, and I am not honoured among them.

Give ear to this, O priests; give attention, O Israel, and you, family of the king; for you are to be judged; you have been a deceit at Mizpah and a net stretched out on Tabor.

And like a band of thieves waiting for a man, so are the priests watching secretly the way of those going quickly to Shechem, for they are working with an evil design.

Its heads take rewards for judging, and the priests take payment for teaching, and the prophets get silver for reading the future: but still, supporting themselves on the Lord, they say, Is not the Lord among us? no evil will overtake us.

Her prophets are good-for-nothing persons, full of deceit: her priests have made the holy place unclean and have gone violently against the law.

Now the chief priests and those in authority got the people to make request for Barabbas, and for Jesus to be put to death.

In the same way, the chief priests, making sport of him, with the scribes and those in authority, said,

But the people were moved by the chief priests to make him let Barabbas go free.

So when the chief priests and the police saw him they gave a loud cry, To the cross! to the cross! Pilate said to them, Take him yourselves and put him on the cross: I see no crime in him.