Isaiah 1:23

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves. Every one loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not defend the fatherless, and the widow's cause does not come to them.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:14

All the leading priests and the people likewise were exceedingly unfaithful, following all the abominations of the nations; and they polluted the house of the Lord which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.

Exodus 23:8

And you shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds the officials, and subverts the cause of those who are in the right.

Proverbs 17:23

A wicked man accepts a bribe from the bosom to pervert the ways of justice.

Proverbs 29:24

The partner of a thief hates his own life; he hears the curse, but discloses nothing.

Isaiah 1:17

learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; defend the fatherless, plead for the widow.

Isaiah 1:18

“Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.

Isaiah 1:22

Your silver has become dross, your wine mixed with water.

Isaiah 28:14

Therefore hear the word of the Lord, you scoffers, who rule this people in Jerusalem!

Isaiah 3:14

The Lord enters into judgment with the elders and princes of his people: “It is you who have devoured the vineyard, the spoil of the poor is in your houses.

Isaiah 30:1

“Woe to the rebellious children,” says the Lord, “who carry out a plan, but not mine; and who make a league, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin;

Isaiah 33:15

He who walks righteously and speaks uprightly, who despises the gain of oppressions, who shakes his hands, lest they hold a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed and shuts his eyes from looking upon evil,

Isaiah 5:23

who acquit the guilty for a bribe, and deprive the innocent of his right!

Isaiah 65:2

I spread out my hands all the day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, following their own devices;

Jeremiah 22:17

But you have eyes and heart only for your dishonest gain, for shedding innocent blood, and for practicing oppression and violence.”

Jeremiah 32:32

because of all the evil of the sons of Israel and the sons of Judah which they did to provoke me to anger—their kings and their princes, their priests and their prophets, the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 4:17

Like keepers of a field are they against her round about, because she has rebelled against me, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 5:5

I will go to the great, and will speak to them; for they know the way of the Lord, the law of their God.” But they all alike had broken the yoke, they had burst the bonds.

Jeremiah 5:6

Therefore a lion from the forest shall slay them, a wolf from the desert shall destroy them. A leopard is watching against their cities, every one who goes out of them shall be torn in pieces; because their transgressions are many, their apostasies are great.

Ezekiel 12:2

“Son of man, you dwell in the midst of a rebellious house, who have eyes to see, but see not, who have ears to hear, but hear not;

Ezekiel 22:27

Her princes in the midst of her are like wolves tearing the prey, shedding blood, destroying lives to get dishonest gain.

Hosea 4:18

A band of drunkards, they give themselves to harlotry; they love shame more than their glory.

Hosea 5:10

The princes of Judah have become like those who remove the landmark; upon them I will pour out my wrath like water.

Hosea 9:15

Every evil of theirs is in Gilgal; there I began to hate them. Because of the wickedness of their deeds I will drive them out of my house. I will love them no more; all their princes are rebels.

Amos 5:12

For I know how many are your transgressions, and how great are your sins— you who afflict the righteous, who take a bribe, and turn aside the needy in the gate.

Micah 3:11

Its heads give judgment for a bribe, its priests teach for hire, its prophets divine for money; yet they lean upon the Lord and say, “Is not the Lord in the midst of us? No evil shall come upon us.”

Micah 3:9

Hear this, you heads of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice and pervert all equity,

Micah 6:12

Your rich men are full of violence; your inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

Micah 7:3

Their hands are upon what is evil, to do it diligently; the prince and the judge ask for a bribe, and the great man utters the evil desire of his soul; thus they weave it together.

Zechariah 7:10

do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, or the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.”

Malachi 3:5

“Then I will draw near to you for judgment; I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow and the orphan, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.

Numbers 22:7

So the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the fees for divination in their hand; and they came to Balaam, and gave him Balak's message.

Matthew 21:13

He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer’; but you make it a den of robbers.”

Mark 11:17

And he taught, and said to them, “Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it a den of robbers.”

Luke 19:46

saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be a house of prayer’; but you have made it a den of robbers.”

Luke 24:27

And beginning with Moses and all the prophets, he interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.

Deuteronomy 16:19

You shall not pervert justice; you shall not show partiality; and you shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and subverts the cause of the righteous.

James 1:27

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

1 Samuel 8:3

Yet his sons did not walk in his ways, but turned aside after gain; they took bribes and perverted justice.