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Mi-ca 7 3
Both hands are skilled in doing evil; the ruler demands gifts, the judge accepts bribes, the powerful dictate what they desire— they all conspire together. (niv)
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Xuất Ai Cập 23 8
“ Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds those who see and twists the words of the innocent. (niv)
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Xa-cha-ri 7 10
Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. Do not plot evil against each other.’ (niv)
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Lu-ca 18 2-Lu-ca 18 5
He said:“ In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared what people thought.And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea,‘ Grant me justice against my adversary.’“ For some time he refused. But finally he said to himself,‘ Even though I don’t fear God or care what people think,yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won’t eventually come and attack me!’” (niv)
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2 Sử Ký 36 14
Furthermore, all the leaders of the priests and the people became more and more unfaithful, following all the detestable practices of the nations and defiling the temple of the Lord, which he had consecrated in Jerusalem. (niv)
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Giê-rê-mi 22 17
“ But your eyes and your heart are set only on dishonest gain, on shedding innocent blood and on oppression and extortion.” (niv)
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Y-sai 10 1-Y-sai 10 2
Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees,to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless. (niv)
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Y-sai 3 14
The Lord enters into judgment against the elders and leaders of his people:“ It is you who have ruined my vineyard; the plunder from the poor is in your houses. (niv)
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Ô-sê 9 15
“ Because of all their wickedness in Gilgal, I hated them there. Because of their sinful deeds, I will drive them out of my house. I will no longer love them; all their leaders are rebellious. (niv)
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Ma-thi-ơ 21 13
“ It is written,” he said to them,“‘ My house will be called a house of prayer,’ but you are making it‘ a den of robbers.’” (niv)
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Ê-xê-chi-ên 22 6-Ê-xê-chi-ên 22 12
“‘ See how each of the princes of Israel who are in you uses his power to shed blood.In you they have treated father and mother with contempt; in you they have oppressed the foreigner and mistreated the fatherless and the widow.You have despised my holy things and desecrated my Sabbaths.In you are slanderers who are bent on shedding blood; in you are those who eat at the mountain shrines and commit lewd acts.In you are those who dishonor their father’s bed; in you are those who violate women during their period, when they are ceremonially unclean.In you one man commits a detestable offense with his neighbor’s wife, another shamefully defiles his daughter-in-law, and another violates his sister, his own father’s daughter.In you are people who accept bribes to shed blood; you take interest and make a profit from the poor. You extort unjust gain from your neighbors. And you have forgotten me, declares the Sovereign Lord. (niv)
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Ma-la-chi 3 5
“ So I will come to put you on trial. I will be quick to testify against sorcerers, adulterers and perjurers, against those who defraud laborers of their wages, who oppress the widows and the fatherless, and deprive the foreigners among you of justice, but do not fear me,” says the Lord Almighty. (niv)
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Giê-rê-mi 5 28-Giê-rê-mi 5 29
and have grown fat and sleek. Their evil deeds have no limit; they do not seek justice. They do not promote the case of the fatherless; they do not defend the just cause of the poor.Should I not punish them for this?” declares the Lord.“ Should I not avenge myself on such a nation as this? (niv)
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2 Sử Ký 24 17-2 Sử Ký 24 21
After the death of Jehoiada, the officials of Judah came and paid homage to the king, and he listened to them.They abandoned the temple of the Lord, the God of their ancestors, and worshiped Asherah poles and idols. Because of their guilt, God’s anger came on Judah and Jerusalem.Although the Lord sent prophets to the people to bring them back to him, and though they testified against them, they would not listen.Then the Spirit of God came on Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest. He stood before the people and said,“ This is what God says:‘ Why do you disobey the Lord’s commands? You will not prosper. Because you have forsaken the Lord, he has forsaken you.’”But they plotted against him, and by order of the king they stoned him to death in the courtyard of the Lord’s temple. (niv)
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Công Vụ Các Sứ Đồ 4 5-Công Vụ Các Sứ Đồ 4 11
The next day the rulers, the elders and the teachers of the law met in Jerusalem.Annas the high priest was there, and so were Caiaphas, John, Alexander and others of the high priest’s family.They had Peter and John brought before them and began to question them:“ By what power or what name did you do this?”Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them:“ Rulers and elders of the people!If we are being called to account today for an act of kindness shown to a man who was lame and are being asked how he was healed,then know this, you and all the people of Israel: It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that this man stands before you healed.Jesus is“‘ the stone you builders rejected, which has become the cornerstone.’ (niv)
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Châm Ngôn 29 24
The accomplices of thieves are their own enemies; they are put under oath and dare not testify. (niv)
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Mi-ca 3 11
Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets tell fortunes for money. Yet they look for the Lord’s support and say,“ Is not the Lord among us? No disaster will come upon us.” (niv)
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Giê-rê-mi 5 5
So I will go to the leaders and speak to them; surely they know the way of the Lord, the requirements of their God.” But with one accord they too had broken off the yoke and torn off the bonds. (niv)
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Mác 11:17
And as he taught them, he said,“ Is it not written:‘ My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations’? But you have made it‘ a den of robbers.’” (niv)
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Y-sai 33 15
Those who walk righteously and speak what is right, who reject gain from extortion and keep their hands from accepting bribes, who stop their ears against plots of murder and shut their eyes against contemplating evil— (niv)
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Phục Truyền Luật Lệ Ký 16 19
Do not pervert justice or show partiality. Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the innocent. (niv)
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Đa-ni-ên 9 5-Đa-ni-ên 9 6
we have sinned and done wrong. We have been wicked and have rebelled; we have turned away from your commands and laws.We have not listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes and our ancestors, and to all the people of the land. (niv)
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Lu-ca 19 46
“ It is written,” he said to them,“‘ My house will be a house of prayer’; but you have made it‘ a den of robbers.’ (niv)
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Ô-sê 4 18
Even when their drinks are gone, they continue their prostitution; their rulers dearly love shameful ways. (niv)
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Ô-sê 7 3-Ô-sê 7 5
“ They delight the king with their wickedness, the princes with their lies.They are all adulterers, burning like an oven whose fire the baker need not stir from the kneading of the dough till it rises.On the day of the festival of our king the princes become inflamed with wine, and he joins hands with the mockers. (niv)
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Châm Ngôn 17 23
The wicked accept bribes in secret to pervert the course of justice. (niv)
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Mi-ca 3 1-Mi-ca 3 3
Then I said,“ Listen, you leaders of Jacob, you rulers of Israel. Should you not embrace justice,you who hate good and love evil; who tear the skin from my people and the flesh from their bones;who eat my people’s flesh, strip off their skin and break their bones in pieces; who chop them up like meat for the pan, like flesh for the pot?” (niv)
