1 Samuel 8:3

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Cross References

Deuteronomy 16:19

And not go aside to either part. Thou shalt not accept person nor gifts: for gifts blind the eyes of the wise, and change the words of the just.

1 Timothy 6:10

For the desire of money is the root of all evils; which some coveting have erred from the faith, and have entangled themselves in many sorrows.

Psalm 15:5

The Lord is the portion of my inheritance and of my cup: it is thou that wilt restore my inheritance to me.

Exodus 23:8

Neither shalt thou take bribes, which even blind the wise, and pervert the words of the just.

Exodus 18:21

And provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, in whom there is truth, and that hate avarice: and appoint of them rulers of thousands, and of hundreds, and of fifties, and of tens,

1 Timothy 3:3

Not given to wine, no striker, but modest, not quarrelsome, not covetous, but

Isaiah 33:15

He that walketh in justices and speaketh truth, that casteth away avarice by oppression and shaketh his hands from all bribes, that stoppeth his ears lest he hear blood and shutteth his eyes that he may see no evil.

2 Samuel 15:4

O that they would make me judge over the land, that all that have business might come to me, that I might do them justice.

Ecclesiastes 2:19

Whom I know not whether he will be a wise man or a fool, and he shall have rule over all my labours with which I have laboured and been solicitous: and is there any thing so vain?

Psalm 26:10

For my father and my mother have left me: but the Lord hath taken me up.

Exodus 23:6

Thou shalt not go aside in the poor man's judgment.

1 Samuel 2:35

And I will raise me up a faithful priest, who shall do according to my heart, and my soul; and I will build him a faithful house; and he shall walk all days before my anointed.

1 Samuel 12:2

And now the king goeth before you. But I am old and greyheaded: and my sons are with you. Having then conversed with you from my youth unto this day, behold here I am.

Isaiah 1:23

Thy princes are faithless, companions of thieves: they all love bribes, the run after rewards. They judge not for the fatherless: and the widow's cometh not in to them.

Micah 3:11

Her princes have judged for bribes, and her priests have taught for hire, and her prophets divined for money: and they leaned upon the Lord, saying: Is not the Lord in the midst of us? no evil shall come upon us.