Micah 7:3
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
3 Their hands are skilled to do evil;
the official and the judge ask for a bribe,
and the powerful dictate what they desire;
thus they pervert justice.[a](A)
Footnotes
- 7.3 Cn: Heb they weave it
Micah 3:11
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
11 Its rulers give judgment for a bribe;
its priests teach for a price;
its prophets give oracles for money;
yet they lean upon the Lord and say,
“Surely the Lord is with us!
No harm shall come upon us.”(A)
Proverbs 4:16-17
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
16 For they cannot sleep unless they have done wrong;
they are robbed of sleep unless they have made someone stumble.(A)
17 For they eat the bread of wickedness
and drink the wine of violence.
Amos 5:12
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
12 For I know how many are your transgressions
and how great are your sins—
you who afflict the righteous, who take a bribe
and push aside the needy in the gate.(A)
Jeremiah 8:10
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
10 Therefore I will give their wives to others
and their fields to conquerors,
because from the least to the greatest
everyone is greedy for unjust gain;
from prophet to priest,
everyone deals falsely.(A)
1 Corinthians 4:5
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
5 Therefore do not pronounce judgment before the time, before the Lord comes, who will bring to light the things now hidden in darkness and will disclose the purposes of the heart. Then each one will receive commendation from God.(A)
Read full chapter
Luke 12:1-2
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
A Warning against Hypocrisy
12 Meanwhile, when the crowd had gathered by the thousands, so that they trampled on one another, he began to speak first to his disciples, “Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, that is, their hypocrisy.(A) 2 Nothing is covered up that will not be uncovered and nothing secret that will not become known.(B)
Read full chapter
Matthew 26:15
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
15 and said, “What will you give me if I betray him to you?” They paid him thirty pieces of silver.(A)
Read full chapter
Hosea 4:18
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
18 When their drinking is ended, they indulge in sexual orgies;
they love lewdness more than their glory.[a](A)
Footnotes
- 4.18 Cn Compare Gk: Meaning of Heb uncertain
Ezekiel 22:27
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
27 Its officials within it are like wolves tearing the prey, shedding blood, destroying lives to get dishonest gain.(A)
Read full chapter
Ezekiel 22:6
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
6 The princes of Israel in you, everyone according to his power, have been bent on shedding blood.(A)
Read full chapter
Jeremiah 3:5
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
5 will he be angry forever,
will he be indignant to the end?”
This is how you have spoken,
but you have done all the evil that you could.(A)
Isaiah 26:21
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
21 For the Lord comes out from his place
to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity;
the earth will disclose the blood shed on it
and will no longer cover its slain.(A)
Isaiah 1:23
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
23 Your princes are rebels
and companions of thieves.
Everyone loves a bribe
and runs after gifts.
They do not defend the orphan,
and the widow’s cause does not come before them.(A)
1 Kings 21:9-14
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
9 She wrote in the letters, “Proclaim a fast, and seat Naboth at the head of the assembly; 10 seat two scoundrels opposite him, and have them bring a charge against him, saying, ‘You have cursed God and the king.’ Then take him out and stone him to death.”(A) 11 The men of his city, the elders and the nobles who lived in his city, did as Jezebel had sent word to them. Just as it was written in the letters that she had sent to them, 12 they proclaimed a fast and seated Naboth at the head of the assembly. 13 The two scoundrels came in and sat opposite him, and the scoundrels brought a charge against Naboth in the presence of the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king.” So they took him outside the city and stoned him to death.(B) 14 Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, “Naboth has been stoned; he is dead.”
Read full chapterNew Revised Standard Version, Updated Edition. Copyright © 2021 National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.