Proverbs 15:27 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²⁷ He who is greedy for unjust gain makes trouble for his household, but he who hates bribes will live.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁷ He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; But he that hateth gifts shall live.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁷ He who is greedy for unjust gain troubles his own household, but he who hates bribes will live. [Isa. 5:8; Jer. 17:11.]

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁷ He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; But he that hateth bribes shall live.

Common English Bible

²⁷ Those who acquire things unjustly gain trouble for their house, but those who hate bribes will live.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁷ Whoever pursues avarice disturbs his own house. But whoever hates bribes shall live. Through mercy and faith, sins are purged. But through the fear of the Lord, each one turns aside from evil.

Proverbs 15:27 Krydshenvisninger

1 Kings 2:40

Shime-i arose and saddled an ass, and went to Gath to Achish, to seek his slaves; Shime-i went and brought his slaves from Gath.

2 Kings 5:27

Therefore the leprosy of Naaman shall cleave to you, and to your descendants for ever.” So he went out from his presence a leper, as white as snow.

Psalm 15:5

who does not put out his money at interest, and does not take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be moved.

Exodus 18:21

Moreover choose able men from all the people, such as fear God, men who are trustworthy and who hate a bribe; and place such men over the people as rulers of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens.

Exodus 23:8

And you shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds the officials, and subverts the cause of those who are in the right.

Proverbs 1:19

Such are the ways of all who get gain by violence; it takes away the life of its possessors.

Proverbs 11:19

He who is steadfast in righteousness will live, but he who pursues evil will die.

Proverbs 11:29

He who troubles his household will inherit wind, and the fool will be servant to the wise.

Proverbs 15:26

The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord, the words of the pure are pleasing to him.

Proverbs 20:21

An inheritance gotten hastily in the beginning will in the end not be blessed.

Proverbs 23:4

Do not toil to acquire wealth; be wise enough to desist.

Proverbs 28:16

A ruler who lacks understanding is a cruel oppressor; but he who hates unjust gain will prolong his days.

Proverbs 28:25

A greedy man stirs up strife, but he who trusts in the Lord will be enriched.

Proverbs 29:4

By justice a king gives stability to the land, but one who exacts gifts ruins it.

Jeremiah 17:11

Like the partridge that gathers a brood which she did not hatch, so is he who gets riches but not by right; in the midst of his days they will leave him, and at his end he will be a fool.

Deuteronomy 16:19

You shall not pervert justice; you shall not show partiality; and you shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and subverts the cause of the righteous.

Deuteronomy 7:26

And you shall not bring an abominable thing into your house, and become accursed like it; you shall utterly detest and abhor it; for it is an accursed thing.

1 Timothy 6:10

For the love of money is the root of all evils; it is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced their hearts with many pangs.

1 Timothy 6:9

But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and hurtful desires that plunge men into ruin and destruction.

Joshua 6:18

But you, keep yourselves from the things devoted to destruction, lest when you have devoted them you take any of the devoted things and make the camp of Israel a thing for destruction, and bring trouble upon it.

1 Samuel 12:3

Here I am; testify against me before the Lord and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Or whose ass have I taken? Or whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Or from whose hand have I taken a bribe to blind my eyes with it? Testify gainst me and I will restore it to you.”