Deuteronomy 27:25

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Deuteronomy 27:23–26 · Berean Standard Bible

23 ‘Cursed is he who sleeps with his mother-in-law.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’

24 ‘Cursed is he who strikes down his neighbor in secret.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’

25 ‘Cursed is he who accepts a bribe to kill an innocent person.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’

26 ‘Cursed is he who does not put the words of this law into practice.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Deuteronomy 10:17

For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, mighty, and awesome God, showing no partiality and accepting no bribe.

Deuteronomy 16:19

Do not deny justice or show partiality. Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous.

Exodus 23:7

Stay far away from a false accusation. Do not kill the innocent or the just, for I will not acquit the guilty.

Exodus 23:8

Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds those who see and twists the words of the righteous.

Psalms 15:5

who lends his money without interest and refuses a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things will never be shaken.

Proverbs 1:11

If they say, “Come along, let us lie in wait for blood, let us ambush the innocent without cause,

Proverbs 1:12

let us swallow them alive like Sheol, and whole like those descending into the Pit.

Proverbs 1:13

We will find all manner of precious goods; we will fill our houses with plunder.

Proverbs 1:14

Throw in your lot with us; let us all share one purse”—

Proverbs 1:15

my son, do not walk the road with them or set foot upon their path.

Proverbs 1:16

For their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed blood.

Proverbs 1:17

How futile it is to spread the net where any bird can see it!

Proverbs 1:18

But they lie in wait for their own blood; they ambush their own lives.

Proverbs 1:19

Such is the fate of all who are greedy, whose unjust gain takes the lives of its possessors.

Proverbs 1:20

Wisdom calls out in the street, she lifts her voice in the square;

Proverbs 1:21

in the main concourse she cries aloud, at the city gates she makes her speech:

Proverbs 1:22

“How long, O simple ones, will you love your simple ways? How long will scoffers delight in their scorn and fools hate knowledge?

Proverbs 1:23

If you had repented at my rebuke, then surely I would have poured out my spirit on you; I would have made my words known to you.

Proverbs 1:24

Because you refused my call, and no one took my outstretched hand,

Proverbs 1:25

because you neglected all my counsel, and wanted none of my correction,

Proverbs 1:26

in turn I will mock your calamity; I will sneer when terror strikes you,

Proverbs 1:27

when your dread comes like a storm, and your destruction like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish overwhelm you.

Proverbs 1:28

Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; they will earnestly seek me, but will not find me.

Proverbs 1:29

For they hated knowledge and chose not to fear the LORD.

Ezekiel 22:12

In you they take bribes to shed blood. You engage in usury, take excess interest, and extort your neighbors. But Me you have forgotten, declares the Lord GOD.

Ezekiel 22:13

Now look, I strike My hands together against your unjust gain and against the blood you have shed in your midst.

Micah 3:10

who build Zion with bloodshed and Jerusalem with iniquity.

Micah 3:11

Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets practice divination for money. Yet they lean upon the LORD, saying, “Is not the LORD among us? No disaster can come upon us.”

Micah 7:2

The godly man has perished from the earth; there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; they hunt one another with a net.

Micah 7:3

Both hands are skilled at evil; the prince and the judge demand a bribe. When the powerful utters his evil desire, they all conspire together.

Matthew 26:15

and asked, “What are you willing to give me if I hand Him over to you?” And they set out for him thirty pieces of silver.

Matthew 27:3

When Judas, who had betrayed Him, saw that Jesus was condemned, he was filled with remorse and returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders.

Matthew 27:4

“I have sinned by betraying innocent blood,” he said. “What is that to us?” they replied. “You bear the responsibility.”

Acts 1:18

(Now with the reward for his wickedness Judas bought a field; there he fell headlong and burst open in the middle, and all his intestines spilled out.