Psalm 15:5

The Scriptures 1998

He has not put out his silver at interest, And has not taken a bribe against the innocent. He who does these is never moved.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 16:19

“Do not distort right-ruling. Do not show partiality, nor take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous.

Exodus 22:25

“If you do lend silver to any of My people, the poor among you, you are not to be like one that lends on interest to him. Do not lay interest on him.

Ezekiel 22:12

“In you they have taken a bribe to shed blood. You have taken interest and increase. You have cut off your neighbour by extortion. And you have forgotten Me,” declares the Master יהוה.

Ezekiel 18:8

if he does not lend on interest or take increase, turns back his hand from unrighteousness, executes right-ruling in truth between man and man,

John 13:17

“If you know these teachings, blessed are you if you do them.

Proverbs 12:3

A man is not established by wrongness, But the root of the righteous shall not be moved.

Psalm 112:6

For he is never shaken; The righteous is remembered forever.

Psalm 106:3

Blessed are those who guard right-ruling, Who do righteousness at all times!

Psalm 55:22

Cast your burden on יהוה, And let Him sustain you; He never allows the righteous to be shaken.

Psalm 16:8

I have set יהוה  always before me; Because He is at my right hand I am not shaken.

Matthew 26:15

and said, “What would you give me to deliver Him to you?” And they counted out to him thirty pieces of silver.

Micah 7:3

Both hands are on the evil, to do it well. The prince asks for gifts, the judge seeks a bribe, and the great man speaks the desire of his being. And they weave it together.

Ezekiel 18:27

“And when the wrong turns away from the wrong which he has done, and he does right-ruling and righteousness, he keeps himself alive.

Ezekiel 18:17

turns back his hand from wronging the poor, and he has not taken interest or increase, has executed My right-rulings and walked in My laws – he shall not die for the crookedness of his father, he shall certainly live!

Isaiah 33:15

He who walks righteously and speaks what is straight, he who rejects the gain of oppressions, who keeps his hands from accepting bribes, who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed, and shuts his eyes from seeing evil –

Exodus 22:24

and My wrath shall burn and I shall slay you with the sword, your wives shall be widows and your children fatherless.

Deuteronomy 23:21

“When you make a vow to יהוה  your Elohim, do not delay to pay it, for יהוה  your Elohim is certainly requiring it of you, and it shall be sin in you.

1 Samuel 12:3

“Look, here I am. Witness against me before יהוה  and before His anointed: Whose ox have I taken, or whose donkey have I taken, or whom have I oppressed? Whom have I abused, or from whose hand have I received any bribe with which to blind my eyes? – then I restore it to you.”

Proverbs 10:30

The righteous is never shaken, While the wrong shall not dwell in the earth.

Proverbs 15:27

He who is greedy for gain, troubles his own house, But he who hates bribes lives.