Acts 24:26 - English Standard Version 2016

²⁶ At the same time he hoped that money would be given him by Paul. So he sent for him often and conversed with him.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁶ He hoped also that money should have been given him of Paul, that he might loose him: wherefore he sent for him the oftener, and communed with him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁶ At the same time he hoped to get money from Paul, for which reason he continued to send for him and was in his company and conversed with him often.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁶ He hoped withal that money would be given him of Paul: wherefore also he sent for him the oftener, and communed with him.

Common English Bible

²⁶ At the same time, he was hoping that Paul would offer him some money, so he often sent for him and talked with him.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁶ He was also hoping that money might be given to him by Paul, and because of this, he frequently summoned him and spoke with him.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁶ Hoping also withal, that money should be given him by Paul; for which cause also oftentimes sending for him, he spoke with him.

Acts 24:26 Tagairtí Cros

2 Chronicles 19:7

Now then, let the fear of the Lord be upon you. Be careful what you do, for there is no injustice with the Lord our God, or partiality or taking bribes.”

Job 15:34

For the company of the godless is barren, and fire consumes the tents of bribery.

Exodus 23:8

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

Proverbs 17:23

The wicked accepts a bribe in secret to pervert the ways of justice.

Proverbs 17:8

A bribe is like a magic stone in the eyes of the one who gives it; wherever he turns he prospers.

Proverbs 19:6

Many seek the favor of a generous man, and everyone is a friend to a man who gives gifts.

Proverbs 29:4

By justice a king builds up the land, but he who exacts gifts tears it down.

Isaiah 1:23

Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves. Everyone loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not bring justice to the fatherless, and the widow’s cause does not come to them.

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 on evil,

Isaiah 56:11

The dogs have a mighty appetite; they never have enough. But they are shepherds who have no understanding; they have all turned to their own way, each to his own gain, one and all.

Ezekiel 22:27

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

Ezekiel 33:31

And they come to you as people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear what you say but they will not do it; for with lustful talk in their mouths they act; their heart is set on their gain.

Hosea 4:18

When their drink is gone, they give themselves to whoring; their rulers dearly love shame.

Micah 3:11

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

Micah 7:3

Their hands are on what is evil, to do it well; 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.

Matthew 17:3

And behold, there appeared to them Moses and Elijah, talking with him.

Acts 24:17

Now after several years I came to bring alms to my nation and to present offerings.

1 Corinthians 6:9

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,

Deuteronomy 16:19

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

2 Peter 2:3

And in their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.

1 Samuel 12:3

Here I am; testify 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 taken a bribe to blind my eyes with it? Testify against me and I will restore it to you.”

1 Samuel 8:3

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