Fondare 13 Risultati per: Bribe

• But choose among the people, capable, God-fearing men, men of truth who hate a bribe, and appoint them as leaders for groups of a thousand, a hundred, fifty and ten. (Exodus 18, 21)

• And do not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the clear-sighted and perverts the sentence of the just. (Exodus 23, 8)

• Cursed be he who accepts a bribe to kill an innocent person! All the people shall say: Amen! (Deuteronomy 27, 25)

• Now, I am here. Answer me before Yahweh and his anointed: Whose ox have I taken? Whose ass have I stolen? Whom have I cheated? Whom have I oppressed? Have I taken a bribe from anyone? If so, tell me, and I will restore it to you." (1 Samuel 12, 3)

• who do not lend money at interest and refuse a bribe against the innocent. Do this, and you will soon be shaken. (Psalms 15, 5)

• A discreet gift pacifies anger, a bribe diverts violent rage. (Proverbs 21, 14)

• Oppression makes a wise man mad, but a bribe corrupts his heart. (Ecclesiastes 7, 7)

• If you attempt to bribe him with gifts he will not accept them; do not rely on offerings from dishonest gain. (Ecclesiasticus 35, 11)

• Your rulers are tyrants, partners of thieves. They love a bribe and look around for gifts. No one protects the orphan, or listens to the claim of the widow. (Isaiah 1, 23)

• but acquit the guilty for a bribe and deprive the innocent of his right. (Isaiah 5, 23)

• those who by a word make a man guilty, those who for a bribe can lay a snare and send home the just empty-handed. (Isaiah 29, 21)

• Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests prophesy for money, and yet they rely on Yahweh and say, "Is Yahweh not in our midst? No evil, then, will come upon us." (Micah 3, 11)