1 Samuel 8:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³ Yet his sons did not follow in his ways but turned aside after gain; they took bribes and perverted justice.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ His sons did not walk in his ways, but turned aside after gain, took bribes, and perverted justice.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted justice.

Common English Bible

³ But Samuel’s sons didn’t follow in his footsteps. They tried to turn a profit, they accepted bribes, and they perverted justice.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ But his sons did not walk in his ways. Instead, they turned aside, pursuing avarice. And they accepted bribes, and they perverted judgment.

1 Samuel 8:3 Cross References

Deuteronomy 16:19

You must not distort justice; you must not show partiality; and you must not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and subverts the cause of those who are in the right.

1 Timothy 6:10

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, and in their eagerness to be rich some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pains.

Psalm 15:5

who do not lend money at interest and do not take a bribe against the innocent. Those who do these things shall never be moved.

Exodus 23:8

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

Exodus 18:21

You should also look for able men among all the people, men who fear God, are trustworthy, and hate dishonest gain; set them as officers over thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens.

1 Timothy 3:3

not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, and not a lover of money.

Isaiah 33:15

Those who walk righteously and speak uprightly, who despise the gain of oppression, who wave away a bribe instead of accepting it, who stop their ears from hearing of bloodshed and shut their eyes from looking on evil,

2 Samuel 15:4

Absalom would also say, “If only I were judge in the land! Then all who had a suit or cause might come to me, and I would give them justice.”

Ecclesiastes 2:19

and who knows whether he will be wise or foolish? Yet he will be master of all for which I toiled and used my wisdom under the sun. This also is vanity.

Psalm 26:10

those in whose hands are evil devices and whose right hands are full of bribes.

Exodus 23:6

“You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in their lawsuits.

1 Samuel 2:35

I will raise up for myself a faithful priest who shall do according to what is in my heart and in my mind. I will build him a sure house, and he shall go in and out before my anointed one forever.

1 Samuel 12:2

See, it is the king who leads you now; I am old and gray, but my sons are with you. I have led you from my youth until this day.

Isaiah 1:23

Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves. Everyone loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not defend the orphan, and the widow’s cause does not come before them.

Micah 3:11

Its rulers give judgment for a bribe; its priests teach for a price; its prophets give oracles for money; yet they lean upon the Lord and say, “Surely the Lord is with us! No harm shall come upon us.”