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Proverbs 1:19
Such are the ways of everyone who makes unjust gain; It takes away the life of its possessors.
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Titus 1:11
who must be silenced because they are upsetting whole families, teaching things they should not teach for the sake of dishonest gain.
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1 Timothy 6 9
But those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap, and many foolish and harmful desires which plunge people into ruin and destruction.
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Matthew 23:13
“ But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you shut the kingdom of heaven in front of people; for you do not enter it yourselves, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in.
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Jude 1:11
Woe to them! For they have gone the way of Cain, and for pay they have given themselves up to the error of Balaam, and perished in the rebellion of Korah.
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2 Timothy 4 10
for Demas, having loved this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica; Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.
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Deuteronomy 16:19
You shall not distort justice, you shall not show partiality; and you shall not accept a bribe, because a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and distorts the words of the righteous.
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Psalms 32:10
The sorrows of the wicked are many, But the one who trusts in the Lord, goodness will surround him.
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Isaiah 56:11
And the dogs are greedy, they are never satisfied. And they are shepherds who have no understanding; They have all turned to their own way, Each one to his unjust gain, without exception.
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Proverbs 1:31
So they shall eat of the fruit of their own way, And be filled with their own schemes.
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1 Timothy 3 3
not overindulging in wine, not a bully, but gentle, not contentious, free from the love of money.
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Micah 3:11
Her leaders pronounce judgment for a bribe, Her priests teach for pay, And her prophets divine for money. Yet they lean on the Lord, saying,“ Is the Lord not in our midst? Catastrophe will not come upon us.”
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1 Timothy 6 21
which some have professed and thereby have gone astray from the faith. Grace be with you.
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Judges 17:10-11
Micah then said to him,“ Stay with me and be a father and a priest to me, and I will give you ten pieces of silver a year, a supply of clothing, and your sustenance.” So the Levite went in.The Levite agreed to live with the man, and the young man became to him like one of his sons.
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Exodus 23:7-8
Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent or the righteous, for I will not acquit the guilty.“ You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear sighted and subverts the cause of the just.
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Deuteronomy 23:18
You shall not bring the earnings of a prostitute or the money for a dog into the house of the Lord your God as payment for any vowed offering, because both of these are an abomination to the Lord your God.
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Micah 7:3-4
As for evil, both hands do it well. The leader asks for a bribe, also the judge, And the great one speaks the capricious desire of his soul; So they plot it together.The best of them is like a thorn bush, The most upright like a thorn hedge. The day when you post your watchmen, Your punishment is coming. Then their confusion will occur.
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James 5:19
My brothers and sisters, if anyone among you strays from the truth and someone turns him back,
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Judges 18:19-20
And they said to him,“ Be silent, put your hand over your mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest. Is it better for you to be a priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?”The priest’s heart was glad, and he took the ephod, the household idols, and the carved image, and went among the people.
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Malachi 1:10
“ If only there were one among you who would shut the gates, so that you would not kindle fire on My altar for nothing! I am not pleased with you,” says the Lord of armies,“ nor will I accept an offering from your hand.
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Genesis 38:16
So he turned aside to her by the road, and said,“ Here now, let me have relations with you”; for he did not know that she was his daughter in law. And she said,“ What will you give me, that you may have relations with me?”
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Ezekiel 13:19
For handfuls of barley and pieces of bread, you have profaned Me to My people, to put to death some who should not die, and to keep others alive who should not live, by your lying to My people who listen to lies.” ’ ”
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2 Kings 5 27
Therefore, the leprosy of Naaman shall cling to you and to your descendants forever.” So he went out from his presence afflicted with leprosy, as white as snow.
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Isaiah 1:23
Your rulers are rebels And companions of thieves; Everyone loves a bribe And chases after gifts. They do not obtain justice for the orphan, Nor does the widow’s case come before them.
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Genesis 29:31-35
Now the Lord saw that Leah was unloved, and He opened her womb, but Rachel was unable to have children.Leah conceived and gave birth to a son, and named him Reuben, for she said,“ Because the Lord has seen my affliction; surely now my husband will love me.”Then she conceived again and gave birth to a son, and said,“ Because the Lord has heard that I am unloved, He has therefore given me this son also.” So she named him Simeon.And she conceived again and gave birth to a son, and said,“ Now this time my husband will become attached to me, because I have borne him three sons.” Therefore he was named Levi.And she conceived again and gave birth to a son, and said,“ This time I will praise the Lord.” Therefore she named him Judah. Then she stopped having children.
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2 Samuel 4 10-2 Samuel 4 11
when the one who informed me, saying,‘ Behold, Saul is dead,’ also viewed himself as the bearer of good news, I seized him and killed him in Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his news.How much more, when wicked men have killed a righteous man in his own house on his bed, shall I not now require his blood from your hands and eliminate you both from the earth?”
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Judges 18:29-31
And they named the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father who was born to Israel; however, the name of the city was previously Laish.The sons of Dan set up for themselves the carved image; and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Manasseh, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of the Danites until the day of the captivity of the land.So they set up for themselves Micah’s carved image which he had made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.
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2 Peter 2 7-2 Peter 2 8
and if He rescued righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the perverted conduct of unscrupulous people( for by what he saw and heard that righteous man, while living among them, felt his righteous soul tormented day after day by their lawless deeds),
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Jeremiah 5:27-28
Like a cage full of birds, So their houses are full of deceit; Therefore they have become great and rich.They are fat, they are sleek, They also excel in deeds of wickedness; They do not plead the cause, The cause of the orphan, so that they may be successful; And they do not defend the rights of the poor.
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Deuteronomy 23:4-5
because they did not meet you with food and water on the way when you came out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you.Nevertheless, the Lord your God was unwilling to listen to Balaam, but the Lord your God turned the curse into a blessing for you because the Lord your God loves you.
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Ezekiel 16:33
Men give gifts to all prostitutes, but you give your gifts to all your lovers and lavish favors on them so that they will come to you from every direction for your obscene practices.
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Acts 1:16-19
“ Brothers, the Scripture had to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit foretold by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who became a guide to those who arrested Jesus.For he was counted among us and received his share in this ministry.”( Now this man acquired a field with the price of his wickedness, and falling headlong, he burst open in the middle and all his intestines gushed out.And it became known to all the residents of Jerusalem; as a result that field was called Hakeldama in their own language, that is, Field of Blood.)
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Genesis 34:23-24
Will their livestock and their property and all their animals not be ours? Let’s just consent to them, and they will live with us.”All who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor and to his son Shechem, and every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city.
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Revelation 18:13
cinnamon, spice, incense, perfume, frankincense, wine, olive oil, fine flour, wheat, cattle, sheep, and cargo of horses, carriages, slaves, and human lives.
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Genesis 29:26
But Laban said,“ It is not the practice in our place to marry off the younger before the firstborn.
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Genesis 29:14
And Laban said to him,“ You certainly are my bone and my flesh.” And he stayed with him a month.
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Revelation 2:14-15
But I have a few things against you, because you have some there who hold the teaching of Balaam, who kept teaching Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols and to commit sexual immorality.So you too, have some who in the same way hold to the teaching of the Nicolaitans.
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Ezekiel 22:12
Among you they have taken bribes to shed blood; you have taken interest, you have injured your neighbors by oppression, and you have forgotten Me,” declares the Lord God.
