1 Samuel 8:3 - Revised Standard Version CI

³ Yet his sons did not walk in his ways, but turned aside after gain; they took bribes and perverted justice.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ His sons did not walk in his ways, but turned aside after gain, took bribes, and perverted justice.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted justice.

Common English Bible

³ 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

³ 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

³ 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

Absalom said moreover, “Oh that I were judge in the land! Then every man with a suit or cause might come to me, and I would give him justice.”

Psalm 15:5

who does not put out his money at interest, and does not take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be moved.

Psalm 26:10

men in whose hands are evil devices, and whose right hands are full of bribes.

Exodus 18:21

Moreover choose able men from all the people, such as fear God, men who are trustworthy and who hate a bribe; and place such men over the people as rulers of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens.

Exodus 23:6

“You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in his suit.

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.

Ecclesiastes 2:19

and who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will be master of all for which I toiled and used my wisdom under the sun. This also is vanity.

Isaiah 1:23

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.

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,

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.”

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.

1 Timothy 3:3

no drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, and no lover of money.

1 Timothy 6:10

For the love of money is the root of all evils; it is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced their hearts with many pangs.

1 Samuel 12:2

And now, behold, the king walks before you; and I am old and gray, and behold, my sons are with you; and I have walked before you from my youth until this day.

1 Samuel 2:35

And I will raise up for myself a faithful priest, 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 go in and out before my anointed for ever.