Bible Verses About Bribery: General references

"You are to appoint judges and officers for all your gates [in the cities] ADONAI your God is giving you, tribe by tribe; and they are to judge the people with righteous judgment.

You are not to distort justice or show favoritism, and you are not to accept a bribe, for a gift blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of even the upright.

Don't include me with sinners or my life with the bloodthirsty.

In their hands are evil schemes; their right hands are full of bribes.

Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine, men whose power goes to mixing strong drinks,

who acquit the guilty for bribes but deny justice to the righteous!

He whose life is right and whose speech is straight, he who scorns getting rich by extortion, he who shakes his hands free of bribes, stops his ears against talk of bloodshed and shuts his eyes against looking at evil.

Such a person will live on the heights, his refuge a fortress among the cliffs, his food and water in steady supply.

In you, people take bribes to shed blood; you demand and accept interest on loans; in greed you make profits off your neighbors by extorting them; and you have forgotten me,' says Adonai ELOHIM.

"'Therefore, I am clapping my hands together because of your ill-gotten gains and the blood shed in you.