1 Samuel 8:3

WEB

³His sons didn’t walk in his ways, but turned away after dishonest gain, took bribes, and perverted justice.

KJV

³And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.

BSB

³But his sons did not walk in his ways; they turned aside toward dishonest gain, accepting bribes and perverting justice.

FBV

³However, his sons did not follow his ways. They were corrupt, making money by accepting bribes and perverting justice.

Extra References

Deuteronomy 16:19

¹⁹You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality. You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.

1 Timothy 6:10

¹⁰For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Psalms 15:5

⁵he who doesn’t lend out his money for usury, nor take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be shaken.

²¹Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men which fear God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

Exodus 23:8

⁸“You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have sight and perverts the words of the righteous.

1 Timothy 3:3

³not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;

Isaiah 33:15

¹⁵He who walks righteously and speaks blamelessly, he who despises the gain of oppressions, who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil—

2 Samuel 15:4

⁴Absalom said moreover, “Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man who has any suit or cause might come to me, and I would do him justice!”

Ecclesiastes 2:19

¹⁹Who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have rule over all of my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.

Jeremiah 22:15-17

¹⁵“Should you reign because you strive to excel in cedar? Didn’t your father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him. ¹⁶He judged the cause of the poor and needy; so then it was well. Wasn’t this to know me?” says the LORD. ¹⁷But your eyes and your heart are only for your covetousness, for shedding innocent blood, for oppression, and for doing violence.”