Deuteronomy 27:25
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25 (A)‘Cursed is the one who takes a bribe to slay an innocent person.’
“And all the people shall say, ‘Amen!’
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Deuteronomy 10:17
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17 For the Lord your God is (A)God of gods and (B)Lord of lords, the great God, (C)mighty and awesome, who (D)shows no partiality nor takes a bribe.
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Exodus 23:7-8
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7 (A)Keep yourself far from a false matter; (B)do not kill the innocent and righteous. For (C)I will not justify the wicked. 8 And (D)you shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds the discerning and perverts the words of the righteous.
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Psalm 15:5
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5 He who does not put out his money at usury,
Nor does he take a bribe against the innocent.
He who does these things (A)shall never be moved.
Deuteronomy 16:19
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19 (A)You shall not pervert justice; (B)you shall not [a]show partiality, (C)nor take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and [b]twists the words of the righteous.
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- Deuteronomy 16:19 Lit. regard faces
- Deuteronomy 16:19 perverts
Acts 1:18
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18 (A)(Now this man purchased a field with (B)the [a]wages of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst open in the middle and all his [b]entrails gushed out.
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Matthew 27:3-4
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Judas Hangs Himself(A)
3 (B)Then Judas, His betrayer, seeing that He had been condemned, was remorseful and brought back the thirty (C)pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, 4 saying, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood.”
And they said, “What is that to us? You see to it!”
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Matthew 26:15
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15 and said, (A)“What are you willing to give me if I deliver Him to you?” And they counted out to him thirty pieces of silver.
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Micah 7:2-3
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2 The (A)faithful[a] man has perished from the earth,
And there is no one upright among men.
They all lie in wait for blood;
(B)Every man hunts his brother with a net.
3 That they may successfully do evil with both hands—
The prince asks for gifts,
The judge seeks a (C)bribe,
And the great man utters his evil desire;
So they scheme together.
Footnotes
- Micah 7:2 Or loyal
Micah 3:10-11
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10 (A)Who build up Zion with (B)bloodshed
And Jerusalem with iniquity:
11 (C)Her heads judge for a bribe,
(D)Her priests teach for pay,
And her prophets divine for [a]money.
(E)Yet they lean on the Lord, and say,
“Is not the Lord among us?
No harm can come upon us.”
Footnotes
- Micah 3:11 Lit. silver
Ezekiel 22:12-13
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12 In you (A)they take bribes to shed blood; (B)you take usury and increase; you have made profit from your neighbors by extortion, and (C)have forgotten Me,” says the Lord God.
13 “Behold, therefore, I (D)beat My fists at the dishonest profit which you have made, and at the bloodshed which has been in your midst.
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Proverbs 1:11-29
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11 If they say, “Come with us,
Let us (A)lie in wait to shed blood;
Let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;
12 Let us swallow them alive like [a]Sheol,
And whole, (B)like those who go down to the Pit;
13 We shall find all kinds of precious [b]possessions,
We shall fill our houses with [c]spoil;
14 Cast in your lot among us,
Let us all have one purse”—
15 My son, (C)do not walk in the way with them,
(D)Keep your foot from their path;
16 (E)For their feet run to evil,
And they make haste to shed blood.
17 Surely, in [d]vain the net is spread
In the sight of any [e]bird;
18 But they lie in wait for their own blood,
They lurk secretly for their own lives.
19 (F)So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain;
It takes away the life of its owners.
The Call of Wisdom
20 (G)Wisdom calls aloud [f]outside;
She raises her voice in the open squares.
21 She cries out in the [g]chief concourses,
At the openings of the gates in the city
She speaks her words:
22 “How long, you [h]simple ones, will you love [i]simplicity?
For scorners delight in their scorning,
And fools hate knowledge.
23 Turn at my rebuke;
Surely (H)I will pour out my spirit on you;
I will make my words known to you.
24 (I)Because I have called and you refused,
I have stretched out my hand and no one regarded,
25 Because you (J)disdained all my counsel,
And would have none of my rebuke,
26 (K)I also will laugh at your calamity;
I will mock when your terror comes,
27 When (L)your terror comes like a storm,
And your destruction comes like a whirlwind,
When distress and anguish come upon you.
28 “Then(M) they will call on me, but I will not answer;
They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me.
29 Because they (N)hated knowledge
And did not (O)choose the fear of the Lord,
Footnotes
- Proverbs 1:12 Or the grave
- Proverbs 1:13 Lit. wealth
- Proverbs 1:13 plunder
- Proverbs 1:17 futility
- Proverbs 1:17 Lit. lord of the wing
- Proverbs 1:20 in the street
- Proverbs 1:21 LXX, Syr., Tg. top of the walls; Vg. the head of multitudes
- Proverbs 1:22 naive
- Proverbs 1:22 naivete
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