Proverbs 17:8

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

A bribe works miracles like a magic charm that brings good luck.

Cross References

Genesis 32:14

two hundred female goats and twenty males, two hundred female sheep and twenty males, thirty female camels with their young, forty cows and ten bulls, and twenty female donkeys and ten males.

Genesis 32:21

Jacob's men took the gifts on ahead of him, but he spent the night in camp.

Genesis 43:11

Their father said: If Benjamin must go with you, take the governor a gift of some of the best things from our own country, such as perfume, honey, spices, pistachio nuts, and almonds.

Psalm 18:16

You reached down from heaven, and you lifted me from deep in the ocean.

Psalm 19:6

It travels all the way across the sky. Nothing hides from its heat.

Psalm 21:13

Show your strength, LORD, so that we may sing and praise your power.

Psalm 29:4

and his voice is mighty and marvellous.

Exodus 23:8

Don't accept bribes. Judges are blinded and justice is twisted by bribes.

Proverbs 17:23

Crooks accept secret bribes to keep justice from being done.

Proverbs 18:16

A gift will get you in to see anyone.

Proverbs 21:14

A secret bribe will save you from someone's fierce anger.

Ecclesiastes 7:7

Corruption makes fools of sensible people, and bribes can ruin you.

Isaiah 1:23

Your leaders have rejected me to become friends of crooks; your rulers are looking for gifts and bribes. Widows and orphans never get a fair trial.

Amos 5:12

I am the LORD, and I know your terrible sins. You cheat honest people and take bribes; you rob the poor of justice.

Micah 7:3

People cooperate to commit crime. Judges and leaders demand bribes, and rulers cheat in court.

1 Samuel 25:35

David accepted the food Abigail had brought. “Don't worry,” he said. “You can go home now. I'll do what you asked.”