Top 25 Bible Verses About Bribes (NIV)

⁸ "Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds those who see and twists the words of the righteous.

²⁷ A greedy man brings trouble to his family, but he who hates bribes will live.

¹⁴ A gift given in secret soothes anger, and a bribe concealed in the cloak pacifies great wrath.

⁷ Extortion turns a wise man into a fool, and a bribe corrupts the heart.

¹² For I know how many are your offenses and how great your sins. You oppress the righteous and take bribes and you deprive the poor of justice in the courts.

¹⁹ Do not pervert justice or show partiality. Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous.

²³ A wicked man accepts a bribe in secret to pervert the course of justice.

⁵ Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, "Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you." ⁶ So we say with confidence, "The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?"

²³ Your rulers are rebels, companions of thieves; they all love bribes and chase after gifts. They do not defend the cause of the fatherless; the widow's case does not come before them.

²⁵ "Cursed is the man who accepts a bribe to kill an innocent person." Then all the people shall say, "Amen!"

⁸ A bribe is a charm to the one who gives it; wherever he turns, he succeeds.

³ But his sons did not walk in his ways. They turned aside after dishonest gain and accepted bribes and perverted justice.

¹⁶ For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice.

¹⁷ For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality and accepts no bribes.

²³ who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice to the innocent.

⁴ By justice a king gives a country stability, but one who is greedy for bribes tears it down.

¹⁰ in whose hands are wicked schemes, whose right hands are full of bribes.

⁵ who lends his money without usury and does not accept a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things will never be shaken.

³⁴ For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of those who love bribes.

³ Both hands are skilled in doing evil; the ruler demands gifts, the judge accepts bribes, the powerful dictate what they desire- they all conspire together.

¹² When the chief priests had met with the elders and devised a plan, they gave the soldiers a large sum of money, ¹³ telling them, "You are to say, 'His disciples came during the night and stole him away while we were asleep.' ¹⁴ If this report gets to the governor, we will satisfy him and keep you out of trouble." ¹⁵ So the soldiers took the money and did as they were instructed. And this story has been widely circulated among the Jews to this very day.

¹¹ Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets tell fortunes for money. Yet they lean upon the LORD and say, "Is not the LORD among us? No disaster will come upon us."

²⁶ At the same time he was hoping that Paul would offer him a bribe, so he sent for him frequently and talked with him.

¹⁵ He who walks righteously and speaks what is right, who rejects gain from extortion and keeps his hand from accepting bribes, who stops his ears against plots of murder and shuts his eyes against contemplating evil-

¹² In you men accept bribes to shed blood; you take usury and excessive interest and make unjust gain from your neighbors by extortion. And you have forgotten me, declares the Sovereign LORD.