1 Samuel 8:3

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

And his sons went not in his ways, but they bowed after avarice, and they took gifts, and perverted doom.

Cross References

2 Samuel 15:4

And Absalom said, Who shall ordain me judge on the land, that all men that have a cause [or need] come to me, and I deem justly [or right-wisely]?

Psalm 15:5

which gave not his money to usury; and took not gifts upon the innocent. He, that doeth these things, shall not be moved without end.

Psalm 26:10

In whose hands wickednesses be; the right hand of them is full-filled with gifts.

Exodus 18:21

Forsooth purvey thou of all the people wise men, and dreading God, in which is truth, and which hate avarice; and ordain thou of them tribunes [or rulers upon thousands], and centurions [or rulers upon hundreds], and quinquagenaries [or rulers upon fifty], and deans [or rulers upon ten],

Exodus 23:6

Thou shalt not bow [away] from truth in the doom of a poor man.

Exodus 23:8

Take thou not gifts, that blind, yea, prudent men, and destroy the words of just [or rightwise] men.

Ecclesiastes 2:19

whom I know not, whether he shall be wise either a fool; and he shall be lord in my travails, for which I sweated greatly, and was busy; and is there anything so vain?

Isaiah 1:23

Thy princes be unfaithful, the fellows of thieves; all love gifts, and follow yieldings, either meeds; they deem not to a fatherless child, and the cause of a widow entereth not to them.

Isaiah 33:15

He that goeth in rightfulnesses [or rightwisenesses], and speaketh truth; he that casteth away avarice of false challenge, and shaketh away his hands from all gifts, or bribes; he that stoppeth his ears, that he hear not blood, and closeth his eyes, that he see not evil.

Micah 3:11

The princes thereof deemed for gifts, and [the] priests thereof taught for hire, and the prophets thereof divined for money; and on the Lord they rested, and said, Whether the Lord is not in the middle of us? evils shall not come on us.

Deuteronomy 16:19

and bow they not into the other part for favour, either gift. Thou shalt not take a person, neither gifts, for why gifts blind the eyes of wise men, and change the words of just [or rightwise] men.

1 Timothy 3:3

not given much to wine, not a smiter, but temperate [or patient], not full of chiding [or strife], not covetous,

1 Timothy 6:10

For the root of all evils is covetousness, which some men coveting erred from the faith, and besetted them with many sorrows.

1 Samuel 12:2

and now the king goeth before you. And I have waxed eld and hoary; and my sons be with you; also I have lived before you from my young waxing age unto this day.

1 Samuel 2:35

And I shall raise to me a faithful priest, that shall do by mine heart and my soul; and I shall build to him a faithful house, and he shall go before my Christ, or mine anointed in all days.