11 Bible Verses about Corrupt Priests

Behold, I will rebuke your offspring, and spread refuse upon your faces, even the refuse of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it.

The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their own power; and my people love to have it so: and what will you do in the end?

Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned my holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and the common, neither have they shown difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.

Hear you this, O priests; and hearken, you house of Israel; and give you ear, O house of the king; for judgment is for you, because you have been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.

And as bands of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.

Her heads judge for reward, and her priests teach for hire, and her prophets divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? no evil can come upon us.

Her prophets are arrogant and treacherous persons: her priests have profaned the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.

But the chief priests and elders persuaded the multitude that they should ask for Barabbas, and destroy Jesus.

Likewise also the chief priests mocking him, with the scribes and elders, saying,

But the chief priests stirred up the people, that he should rather release Barabbas unto them.

When the chief priests therefore and officers saw him, they cried out, saying, Crucify him, crucify him. Pilate said unto them, You take him, and crucify him: for I find no fault in him.