Proverbs 6:35 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³⁵ He will accept no compensation and will refuse a bribe no matter how great.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁵ He will not regard any ransom; Neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁵ He will not consider any ransom [offered to buy him off from demanding full punishment]; neither will he be satisfied, though you offer him many gifts and bribes.

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁵ He will not regard any ransom; Neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts.

Common English Bible

³⁵ He won’t accept compensation; he’ll refuse even a large bribe.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁵ nor will he agree to the pleadings of anyone, nor will he accept, as repayment, a multitude of gifts.

Proverbs 6:35 Cross References

Malachi 2:9

so I make you despised and humbled before all the people, inasmuch as you have not kept my ways but have shown partiality in your instruction.

Isaiah 2:9

And so people are humbled, and everyone is brought low— [[do not forgive them!

Proverbs 8:25

Before the mountains had been shaped, before the hills, I was brought forth,

Proverbs 7:13

She seizes him and kisses him, and with impudent face she says to him:

Proverbs 4:3

When I was a son with my father, tender and my mother’s favorite,

2 Kings 5:1

Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Aram, was a great man and in high favor with his master because by him the Lord had given victory to Aram. The man, though a mighty warrior, suffered from a skin disease.

Proverbs 6:34

For jealousy arouses a husband’s fury, and he will show no restraint when he takes revenge.

Proverbs 7:1

My child, keep my words and store up my commandments with you;

Song of Solomon 8:7

Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. If one offered for love all the wealth of one’s house, it would be utterly scorned.

Isaiah 13:17

See, I am stirring up the Medes against them, who have no regard for silver and do not delight in gold.