Proverbs 17:23

Bible in Basic English 1965

A sinner takes an offering out of his robe, to get a decision for himself in a cause.

Cross References

Exodus 23:8

Take no rewards in a cause: for rewards make blind those who have eyes to see, and make the decisions of the upright false.

Proverbs 17:8

An offering of money is like a stone of great price in the eyes of him who has it: wherever he goes, he does well.

Proverbs 18:16

A man's offering makes room for him, letting him come before great men.

Proverbs 21:14

By a secret offering wrath is turned away, and the heat of angry feelings by money in the folds of the robe.

Ecclesiastes 7:7

The wise are troubled by the ways of the cruel, and the giving of money is the destruction of the heart.

Isaiah 1:23

Your chiefs have gone against the Lord, they have become friends of thieves; every one of them is looking for profit and going after rewards; they do not give right decisions for the child who has no father, and they do not let the cause of the widow come before them.

Isaiah 5:23

Who for a reward give support to the cause of the sinner, and who take away the righteousness of the upright from him.

Ezekiel 22:12

In you they have taken rewards as the price of blood; you have taken interest and great profits, and you have taken away your neighbours' goods by force, and have not kept me in mind, says the Lord.

Ezekiel 22:27

Her rulers in her are like wolves violently taking their food; putting men to death and causing the destruction of souls, so that they may get their profit.

Micah 3:11

Its heads take rewards for judging, and the priests take payment for teaching, and the prophets get silver for reading the future: but still, supporting themselves on the Lord, they say, Is not the Lord among us? no evil will overtake us.

Micah 3:9

Then give ear to this, you heads of the children of Jacob, you rulers of the children of Israel, hating what is right, twisting what is straight.

Micah 7:3

Their hands are made ready to do evil; the ruler makes requests for money, and the judge is looking for a reward; and the great man gives decisions at his pleasure, and the right is twisted.

Deuteronomy 16:19

You are not to be moved in your judging by a man's position, you are not to take rewards; for rewards make the eyes of the wise man blind, and the decisions of the upright false.

1 Samuel 12:3

Here I am: give witness against me before the Lord and before the man on whom he has put the holy oil: whose ox or ass have I taken? to whom have I been untrue? who has been crushed down by me? from whose hand have I taken a price for the blinding of my eyes? I will give it all back to you.

1 Samuel 8:3

And his sons did not go in his ways, but moved by the love of money took rewards, and were not upright in judging.