Isaiah 1:23 Cross References

Isaiah 1:23

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

Micah 7:3

  1. They go about their evil deeds with both hands. How skilled they are at using them! Officials and judges alike demand bribes. The people with money and influence pay them off, and together they scheme to twist justice.

Zechariah 7:10

  1. Do not oppress widows, orphans, foreigners, and poor people. And do not make evil plans to harm each other.

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.

Luke 18:2

  1. "There was a judge in a certain city," he said, "who was a godless man with great contempt for everyone.
  2. A widow of that city came to him repeatedly, appealing for justice against someone who had harmed her.
  3. The judge ignored her for a while, but eventually she wore him out. 'I fear neither God nor man,' he said to himself,
  4. 'but this woman is driving me crazy. I'm going to see that she gets justice, because she is wearing me out with her constant requests!'"

Hosea 9:15

  1. The LORD says, "All their wickedness began at Gilgal; there I began to hate them. I will drive them from my land because of their evil actions. I will love them no more because all their leaders are rebels.

Matthew 21:13

  1. He said, "The Scriptures declare, 'My Temple will be called a place of prayer,' but you have turned it into a den of thieves!"

2 Chronicles 36:14

  1. All the leaders of the priests and the people became more and more unfaithful. They followed the pagan practices of the surrounding nations, desecrating the Temple of the LORD in Jerusalem.

Malachi 3:5

  1. At that time I will put you on trial. I will be a ready witness against all sorcerers and adulterers and liars. I will speak against those who cheat employees of their wages, who oppress widows and orphans, or who deprive the foreigners living among you of justice, for these people do not fear me," says the LORD Almighty.

Daniel 9:5

  1. But we have sinned and done wrong. We have rebelled against you and scorned your commands and regulations.
  2. We have refused to listen to your servants the prophets, who spoke your messages to our kings and princes and ancestors and to all the people of the land.

Proverbs 17:23

  1. The wicked accept secret bribes to pervert justice.

Mark 11:17

  1. He taught them, "The Scriptures declare, 'My Temple will be called a place of prayer for all nations,' but you have turned it into a den of thieves."

Jeremiah 22:17

  1. "But you! You are full of selfish greed and dishonesty! You murder the innocent, oppress the poor, and reign ruthlessly."

Jeremiah 5:28

  1. They are well fed and well groomed, and there is no limit to their wicked deeds. They refuse justice to orphans and deny the rights of the poor.
  2. Should I not punish them for this?" asks the LORD. "Should I not avenge myself against a nation such as this?

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.

Micah 3:11

  1. You rulers govern for the bribes you can get; you priests teach God's laws only for a price; you prophets won't prophesy unless you are paid. Yet all of you claim you are depending on the LORD. "No harm can come to us," you say, "for the LORD is here among us."

Proverbs 29:24

  1. If you assist a thief, you are only hurting yourself. You will be punished if you report the crime, but you will be cursed if you don't.

Hosea 7:3

  1. The people make the king glad with their wickedness. The princes laugh about the people's many lies.
  2. They are all adulterers, always aflame with lust. They are like an oven that is kept hot even while the baker is still kneading the dough.
  3. "On royal holidays, the princes get drunk. The king makes a fool of himself and drinks with those who are making fun of him.

Acts 4:5

  1. The next day the council of all the rulers and elders and teachers of religious law met in Jerusalem.
  2. Annas the high priest was there, along with Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and other relatives of the high priest.
  3. They brought in the two disciples and demanded, "By what power, or in whose name, have you done this?"
  4. Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, "Leaders and elders of our nation,
  5. are we being questioned because we've done a good deed for a crippled man? Do you want to know how he was healed?

Jeremiah 5:5

  1. I will go and speak to their leaders. Surely they will know the LORD's ways and what God requires of them." But the leaders, too, had utterly rejected their God.

Luke 19:46

  1. He told them, "The Scriptures declare, 'My Temple will be a place of prayer,' but you have turned it into a den of thieves."

Ezekiel 22:6

  1. "Every leader in Israel who lives within your walls is bent on murder.
  2. Fathers and mothers are contemptuously ignored. Resident foreigners are forced to pay for protection. Orphans and widows are wronged and oppressed.
  3. Inside your walls you despise my holy things and violate my Sabbath days of rest.
  4. People accuse others falsely and send them to their death. You are filled with idol worshipers and people who take part in lewd activities.
  5. Men sleep with their fathers' wives and have intercourse with women who are menstruating.

Hosea 4:18

  1. The men of Israel finish up their drinking bouts and off they go to find some prostitutes. Their love for shame is greater than their love for honor.

Isaiah 3:14

  1. The leaders and the princes will be the first to feel the LORD's judgment. "You have ruined Israel, which is my vineyard. You have taken advantage of the poor, filling your barns with grain extorted from helpless people.

Isaiah 10:1

  1. Destruction is certain for the unjust judges, for those who issue unfair laws.
  2. They deprive the poor, the widows, and the orphans of justice. Yes, they rob widows and fatherless children!

2 Chronicles 24:17

  1. But after Jehoiada's death, the leaders of Judah came and bowed before King Joash and persuaded the king to listen to their advice.
  2. They decided to abandon the Temple of the LORD, the God of their ancestors, and they worshiped Asherah poles and idols instead! Then the anger of God burned against Judah and Jerusalem because of their sin.
  3. The LORD sent prophets to bring them back to him, but the people would not listen.
  4. Then the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest. He stood before the people and said, "This is what God says: Why do you disobey the LORD's commands so that you cannot prosper? You have abandoned the LORD, and now he has abandoned you!"
  5. Then the leaders plotted to kill Zechariah, and by order of King Joash himself, they stoned him to death in the courtyard of the LORD's Temple.

Micah 3:1

  1. Listen, you leaders of Israel! You are supposed to know right from wrong,
  2. but you are the very ones who hate good and love evil. You skin my people alive and tear the flesh off their bones.
  3. You eat my people's flesh, cut away their skin, and break their bones. You chop them up like meat for the cooking pot.

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.
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