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Proverbs 1:19
Such are the paths of all who make profit dishonestly; it takes the lives of those who receive it.
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Exodus 23:8
You must not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and corrupts the words of the righteous.
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Proverbs 11:29
The one who brings ruin on his household will inherit the wind, and a fool will be a slave to someone whose heart is wise.
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Jeremiah 17:11
He who makes a fortune unjustly is like a partridge that hatches eggs it didn’t lay. In the middle of his life his riches will abandon him, so in the end he will be a fool.
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Deuteronomy 16:19
Do not deny justice or show partiality to anyone. Do not accept a bribe, for it blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous.
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2 Kings 5 27
Therefore, Naaman’s skin disease will cling to you and your descendants forever.” So Gehazi went out from his presence diseased, resembling snow.
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Exodus 18:21
But you should select from all the people able men, God-fearing, trustworthy, and hating dishonest profit. Place them over the people as commanders of thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens.
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Joshua 6:18
But keep yourselves from the things set apart, or you will be set apart for destruction. If you take any of those things, you will set apart the camp of Israel for destruction and make trouble for it.
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Isaiah 5:8-10
Woe to those who add house to house and join field to field until there is no more room and you alone are left in the land.I heard the LORD of Armies say: Indeed, many houses will become desolate, grand and lovely ones without inhabitants.For a ten-acre vineyard will yield only six gallons of wine, and ten bushels of seed will yield only one bushel of grain.
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Joshua 7:11-12
Israel has sinned. They have violated my covenant that I appointed for them. They have taken some of what was set apart. They have stolen, deceived, and put those things with their own belongings.This is why the Israelites cannot stand against their enemies. They will turn their backs and run from their enemies, because they have been set apart for destruction. I will no longer be with you unless you remove from among you what is set apart.
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Habakkuk 2:9-11
Woe to him who dishonestly makes wealth for his house to place his nest on high, to escape the grasp of disaster!You have planned shame for your house by wiping out many peoples and sinning against your own self.For the stones will cry out from the wall, and the rafters will answer them from the woodwork.
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Isaiah 33:15-16
The one who lives righteously and speaks rightly, who refuses profit from extortion, whose hand never takes a bribe, who stops his ears from listening to murderous plots and shuts his eyes against evil schemes—he will dwell on the heights; his refuge will be the rocky fortresses, his food provided, his water assured.
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Proverbs 20:21
An inheritance gained prematurely will not be blessed ultimately.
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Deuteronomy 7:26
Do not bring any detestable thing into your house, or you will be set apart for destruction like it. You are to abhor and detest it utterly because it is set apart for destruction.
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Proverbs 11:19
Genuine righteousness leads to life, but pursuing evil leads to death.
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1 Samuel 8 3-1 Samuel 8 5
However, his sons did not walk in his ways— they turned toward dishonest profit, took bribes, and perverted justice.So all the elders of Israel gathered together and went to Samuel at Ramah.They said to him,“ Look, you are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Therefore, appoint a king to judge us the same as all the other nations have.”
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Joshua 7:24-25
Then Joshua and all Israel with him took Achan son of Zerah, the silver, the cloak, and the bar of gold, his sons and daughters, his ox, donkey, and sheep, his tent, and all that he had, and brought them up to the Valley of Achor.Joshua said,“ Why have you brought us trouble? Today the LORD will bring you trouble!” So all Israel stoned them to death. They burned their bodies, threw stones on them,
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Zechariah 5:3-4
Then he said to me,“ This is the curse that is going out over the whole land, for everyone who is a thief, contrary to what is written on one side, has gone unpunished, and everyone who swears falsely, contrary to what is written on the other side, has gone unpunished.I will send it out,”— this is the declaration of the LORD of Armies—“ and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of the one who swears falsely by my name. It will stay inside his house and destroy it along with its timbers and stones.”
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Proverbs 29:4
By justice a king brings stability to a land, but a person who demands“ contributions” demolishes it.
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Proverbs 28:16
A leader who lacks understanding is very oppressive, but one who hates dishonest profit prolongs his life.
