Ecclesiastes 7:7 Cross References

Ecclesiastes 7:7

7: Extortion turns wise people into fools, and bribes corrupt the heart.

Deuteronomy 16:19

  1. You must never twist justice or show partiality. Never accept a bribe, for bribes blind the eyes of the wise and corrupt the decisions of the godly.

Exodus 23:8

  1. "Take no bribes, for a bribe makes you ignore something that you clearly see. A bribe always hurts the cause of the person who is in the right.

Proverbs 17:23

  1. The wicked accept secret bribes to pervert justice.

Isaiah 1:23

  1. Your leaders are rebels, the companions of thieves. All of them take bribes and refuse to defend the orphans and the widows.

Ecclesiastes 4:1

  1. Again I observed all the oppression that takes place in our world. I saw the tears of the oppressed, with no one to comfort them. The oppressors have great power, and the victims are helpless.

Proverbs 17:8

  1. A bribe seems to work like magic for those who give it; they succeed in all they do.

1 Samuel 8:3

  1. But they were not like their father, for they were greedy for money. They accepted bribes and perverted justice.

Deuteronomy 28:65

  1. There among those nations you will find no place of security and rest. And the LORD will cause your heart to tremble, your eyesight to fail, and your soul to despair.

Deuteronomy 28:33

  1. A foreign nation you have never heard about will eat the crops you worked so hard to grow. You will suffer under constant oppression and harsh treatment.
  2. You will go mad because of all the tragedy around you.

1 Samuel 12:3

  1. Now tell me as I stand before the LORD and before his anointed one--whose ox or donkey have I stolen? Have I ever cheated any of you? Have I ever oppressed you? Have I ever taken a bribe? Tell me and I will make right whatever I have done wrong."

Isaiah 33:15

  1. The ones who can live here are those who are honest and fair, who reject making a profit by fraud, who stay far away from bribes, who refuse to listen to those who plot murder, who shut their eyes to all enticement to do wrong.
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