1 Samuel 8:3 - Modern King James Version

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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

American Standard Version (1901)

And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted justice.

Common English Bible

But Samuel’s sons didn’t follow in his footsteps. They tried to turn a profit, they accepted bribes, and they perverted justice.

Catholic Public Domain Version

But his sons did not walk in his ways. Instead, they turned aside, pursuing avarice. And they accepted bribes, and they perverted judgment.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And his sons walked not in his ways: but they turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.

1 Samuel 8:3 Tagairtí Cros

2 Samuel 15:4

And Absalom said, Oh that I might be made judge in the land, so that every man who has any suit or cause might come to me, and I would do him justice!

Psalm 15:5

he has not put out his money at interest, nor has he taken a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall not be moved forever.

Psalm 26:10

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

Exodus 18:21

And you shall look out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating unjust gain. And place such over them to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

Exodus 23:6

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

Exodus 23:8

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

Ecclesiastes 2:19

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

Isaiah 1:23

your rulers are rebellious, and companions of thieves; everyone loves a bribe, and is pursuing rewards; 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 uprightly; he who despises the gain of oppressions, who shakes his hands free from holding bribes, who stops his ear from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from seeing evil;

Micah 3:11

Her heads judge for a bribe, and her priests teach for pay, and her prophets divine for silver, yet they will lean on Jehovah and say, Is not Jehovah among us? No evil can come on us!

Deuteronomy 16:19

You shall not pervert judgment; you shall not respect persons, nor take a gift. For a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.

1 Timothy 3:3

not a drunkard, not contentious, not greedy of ill gain, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous,

1 Timothy 6:10

For the love of money is a root of all evils, of which some having lusted after, they were seduced from the faith and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

1 Samuel 12:2

And now, behold, the king walks before you. And I am old and gray-headed, and, behold, my sons are with you. And I have walked before you from my childhood to this day.

1 Samuel 2:35

And I will raise up a faithful priest to Myself, one who shall do according to what is in My heart and in My mind. And I will build him a sure house, and he shall walk before My anointed forever.