Proverbs 17:23

Lighthouse Bible 2006

A wicked man takes a bribe out of the bosom to pervert the ways of justice.

Cross References

Exodus 23:8

And you shall take no bribe: for the bribe blinds the wise, and perverts the words of the righteous.

Proverbs 17:8

A gift is as a precious stone in the eyes of him who has it: wherever it turns, it prospers.

Proverbs 18:16

A man’s gift makes room for him, and brings him before great men.

Proverbs 21:14

A gift in secret pacifies anger: and a reward in the bosom strong wrath.

Ecclesiastes 7:7

Surely oppression makes a wise man mad; and a bribe destroys the heart.

Isaiah 1:23

Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loves gifts, and follows after rewards: they do not judge the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

Isaiah 5:23

Who justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!

Ezekiel 22:12

In you have they taken bribes to shed blood; you have taken interest and unjust gain, and you have greedily gained from your neighbors by extortion, and have forgotten me, says the Lord GOD.

Ezekiel 22:27

Her princes in the midst of her are like wolves devouring the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.

Micah 3:11

Their heads judge for reward, and their priests teach for wages, and their prophets divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? no evil can come upon us.

Micah 3:9

Hear this, I pray you, you heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, who abhor justice, and pervert all uprightness.

Micah 7:3

So that they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asks, and the judge asks for a reward; and the great man, he speaks his mischievous desire: so they weave it together.

Deuteronomy 16:19

You shall not pervert judgment; you shall not favor any person, neither take a bribe: for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise, and perverts the words of the righteous.

1 Samuel 12:3

Behold, here I am: witness against me before the LORD, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose donkey have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or from whose hand have I received any bribe to blind my eyes therewith? and I will restore it to you.

1 Samuel 8:3

And his sons did not walk in his ways, but turned aside after money, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.