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Acts 24:2-3
When Paul was called in, Tertullus began to accuse him and said,“ We enjoy great peace because of you, and reforms are taking place for the benefit of this nation because of your foresight.We acknowledge this in every way and everywhere, most excellent Felix, with utmost gratitude.
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Deuteronomy 16:19
Do not deny justice or show partiality to anyone. Do not accept a bribe, for it blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous.
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Isaiah 33:15
The one who lives righteously and speaks rightly, who refuses profit from extortion, whose hand never takes a bribe, who stops his ears from listening to murderous plots and shuts his eyes against evil schemes—
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1 Samuel 12 3
Here I am. Bring charges against me before the LORD and his anointed: Whose ox or donkey have I taken? Who have I wronged or mistreated? Who gave me a bribe to overlook something? I will return it to you.”
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2 Chronicles 19 7
And now, may the terror of the LORD be on you. Watch what you do, for there is no injustice or partiality or taking bribes with the LORD our God.”
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Micah 7:3
Both hands are good at accomplishing evil: the official and the judge demand a bribe; when the powerful man communicates his evil desire, they plot it together.
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Amos 2:6-7
The LORD says: I will not relent from punishing Israel for three crimes, even four, because they sell a righteous person for silver and a needy person for a pair of sandals.They trample the heads of the poor on the dust of the ground and obstruct the path of the needy. A man and his father have sexual relations with the same girl, profaning my holy name.
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1 Samuel 8 3
However, his sons did not walk in his ways— they turned toward dishonest profit, took bribes, and perverted justice.
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2 Peter 2 14-2 Peter 2 15
They have eyes full of adultery that never stop looking for sin. They seduce unstable people and have hearts trained in greed. Children under a curse!They have gone astray by abandoning the straight path and have followed the path of Balaam, the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of wickedness
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Exodus 23:8
You must not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and corrupts the words of the righteous.
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Proverbs 17:8
A bribe seems like a magic stone to its owner; wherever he turns, he succeeds.
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Acts 24:17
After many years, I came to bring charitable gifts and offerings to my people.
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Proverbs 17:23
A wicked person secretly takes a bribe to subvert the course of justice.
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Proverbs 19:6
Many seek a ruler’s favor, and everyone is a friend of one who gives gifts.
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1 Corinthians 6 9
Don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s kingdom? Do not be deceived: No sexually immoral people, idolaters, adulterers, or males who have sex with males,
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Hosea 12:7-8
A merchant loves to extort with dishonest scales in his hands.But Ephraim thinks,“ How rich I have become; I made it all myself. In all my earnings, no one can find any iniquity in me that I can be punished for!”
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Ezekiel 22:27
“ Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey, shedding blood, and destroying lives in order to make profit dishonestly.
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Micah 3:11
Her leaders issue rulings for a bribe, her priests teach for payment, and her prophets practice divination for silver. Yet they lean on the LORD, saying,“ Isn’t the LORD among us? No disaster will overtake us.”
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Psalms 26:9-10
Do not destroy me along with sinners, or my life along with men of bloodshedin whose hands are evil schemes and whose right hands are filled with bribes.
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Proverbs 29:4
By justice a king brings stability to a land, but a person who demands“ contributions” demolishes it.
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Isaiah 56:11
These dogs have fierce appetites; they never have enough. And they are shepherds who have no discernment; all of them turn to their own way, every last one for his own profit.
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Hosea 4:18
When their drinking is over, they turn to promiscuity. Israel’s leaders fervently love disgrace.
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1 Timothy 6 9-1 Timothy 6 10
But those who want to be rich fall into temptation, a trap, and many foolish and harmful desires, which plunge people into ruin and destruction.For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, and by craving it, some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.
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Ephesians 5:5-6
For know and recognize this: Every sexually immoral or impure or greedy person, who is an idolater, does not have an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.Let no one deceive you with empty arguments, for God’s wrath is coming on the disobedient because of these things.
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Job 15:34
For the company of the godless will have no children, and fire will consume the tents of those who offer bribes.
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2 Peter 2 3
They will exploit you in their greed with made-up stories. Their condemnation, pronounced long ago, is not idle, and their destruction does not sleep.
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Isaiah 1:23
Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love graft and chase after bribes. They do not defend the rights of the fatherless, and the widow’s case never comes before them.
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Ezekiel 33:31
So my people come to you in crowds, sit in front of you, and hear your words, but they don’t obey them. Their mouths go on passionately, but their hearts pursue dishonest profit.