1 Samuel 8:3

King James 3 - The Literal Traslation

And his sons did not walk in his ways, and turned aside after dishonest gain, and took a bribe, and perverted judgment.

Cross References

2 Samuel 15:4

And Absalom said, Who shall make me a judge in the land, that every man who has a dispute, I will then declare him right, even with judgment?

Psalm 15:5

He has not given his silver at interest, and not has taken a bribe against the innocent one; he who does these things shall not be shaken forever.

Psalm 26:10

in whose hand is a plot, and their right hand is full of a bribe.

Exodus 18:21

And you, you shall look on men of ability out of all the people, who fear God, men of truth, hating unjust gain. And you place these over them as rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

Exodus 23:6

You shall not pervert the judgment of your poor one in his lawsuit.

Exodus 23:8

And you shall not take a bribe, for the bribe blinds the seeing ones, and it perverts the words of the righteous ones.

Ecclesiastes 2:19

And who knows if he will be wise or a fool? Yet he shall rule among all my labor in which I labored, and acted wisely under the sun. This is also vanity.

Isaiah 1:23

Your rulers are rebelling and are companions of thieves. Everyone loves a present, and is pursuing bribes. They do not judge the orphan, nor does the cause of the widow come to them.

Isaiah 33:15

He who walks righteously and speaks with uprightness; he who rejects the gain of oppressions, who shakes his palms free from taking the bribe, who stops his ear from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil.

Micah 3:11

Her heads judge for a bribe, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets divine for silver; yet they will lean on Jehovah, saying, Is not Jehovah in our midst? Evil shall not come on us!

Deuteronomy 16:19

You shall not pervert judgment. You shall not regard faces, and you shall not take a bribe; for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise, and perverts the words of the righteous ones.

1 Timothy 3:3

not given to wine, not a quarreler, not loving silver, but gentle, not contentious, not eager for ill gain;

1 Timothy 6:10

For the love of money is a root of all evils, by means of which some stretching toward it were led astray from the faith, and they themselves pierced through by many pains.

1 Samuel 12:2

And now, behold, the king is walking before you, but I am old and gray. And, behold, my sons, they are with you. And I have walked before your face from my youth until this day.

1 Samuel 2:35

And I shall raise up for Myself a faithful priest. He shall do all that is in My heart and in My soul. And I shall build for him a sure house; and he shall walk before My anointed all the days.