Deuteronomy 27:25

World English Bible (2000)

'Cursed is he who takes a bribe to kill an innocent person.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'

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  • Exod 23:7-8 : 7 "Keep far from a false charge, and don't kill the innocent and righteous: for I will not justify the wicked. 8 "You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have sight and perverts the words of the righteous.
  • Deut 10:17 : 17 For Yahweh your God, he is God of gods, and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the awesome, who doesn't respect persons, nor takes reward.
  • Deut 16:19 : 19 You shall not wrest justice: you shall not respect persons; neither shall you take a bribe; for a bribe does blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.
  • Ps 15:5 : 5 he 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. A Poem by David.
  • Prov 1:11-29 : 11 If they say, "Come with us, Let's lay in wait for blood; let's lurk secretly for the innocent without cause; 12 let's swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit. 13 We'll find all valuable wealth. We'll fill our houses with spoil. 14 You shall cast your lot among us. We'll all have one purse." 15 My son, don't walk in the way with them. Keep your foot from their path, 16 for their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood. 17 For in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird: 18 but these lay wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives. 19 So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain. It takes away the life of its owners. 20 Wisdom calls aloud in the street. She utters her voice in the public squares. 21 She calls at the head of noisy places. At the entrance of the city gates, she utters her words: 22 "How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge? 23 Turn at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my spirit on you. I will make known my words to you. 24 Because I have called, and you have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one has paid attention; 25 but you have ignored all my counsel, and wanted none of my reproof; 26 I also will laugh at your disaster. I will mock when calamity overtakes you; 27 when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when your disaster comes on like a whirlwind; when distress and anguish come on you. 28 Then will they call on me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me; 29 because they hated knowledge, and didn't choose the fear of Yahweh.
  • Ezek 22:12-13 : 12 In you have they taken bribes to shed blood; you have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me, says the Lord Yahweh. 13 Behold, therefore, I have struck my hand at your dishonest gain which you have made, and at your blood which has been in the midst of you.
  • Mic 3:10-11 : 10 They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity. 11 Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money: yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, "Isn't Yahweh in the midst of us? No disaster will come on us."
  • Mic 7:2-3 : 2 The godly man has perished out of the earth, and there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; every man hunts his brother with a net. 3 Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe; and the powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.
  • Matt 26:15 : 15 and said, "What are you willing to give me, that I should deliver him to you?" They weighed out for him thirty pieces of silver.
  • Matt 27:3-4 : 3 Then Judas, who betrayed him, when he saw that Jesus was condemned, felt remorse, and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, 4 saying, "I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood." But they said, "What is that to us? You see to it."
  • Acts 1:18 : 18 Now this man obtained a field with the reward for his wickedness, and falling headlong, his body burst open, and all his intestines gushed out.

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    15 'Cursed is the man who makes an engraved or molten image, an abomination to Yahweh, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret.' All the people shall answer and say, 'Amen.'

    16 'Cursed is he who sets light by his father or his mother.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'

    17 'Cursed is he who removes his neighbor's landmark.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'

    18 'Cursed is he who makes the blind to wander out of the way.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'

    19 'Cursed is he who wrests the justice [due] to the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'

    20 'Cursed is he who lies with his father's wife, because he has uncovered his father's skirt.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'

    21 'Cursed is he who lies with any kind of animal.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'

    22 'Cursed is he who lies with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'

    23 'Cursed is he who lies with his mother-in-law.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'

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  • Deut 27:26
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    26 'Cursed is he who doesn't confirm the words of this law to do them.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'"

  • Exod 23:7-8
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    7 "Keep far from a false charge, and don't kill the innocent and righteous: for I will not justify the wicked.

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

  • Ps 94:21
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    21 They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.

  • Num 35:30-31
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    30 "'Whoever kills any person, the murderer shall be slain at the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person that he die.

    31 "'Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death; but he shall surely be put to death.

  • Deut 19:10
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    10 that innocent blood not be shed in the midst of your land, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, and so blood be on you.

  • Lev 24:17
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    17 "'He who strikes any man mortally shall surely be put to death.

  • Jer 48:10
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    10 Cursed is he who does the work of Yahweh negligently; and cursed is he who keeps back his sword from blood.

  • Prov 24:24
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    24 He who says to the wicked, "You are righteous;" peoples shall curse him, and nations shall abhor him--

  • Deut 13:9
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    9 but you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.

  • Deut 19:12-13
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    12 then the elders of his city shall send and bring him there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.

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    21 He who kills an animal shall make it good; and he who kills a man shall be put to death.

  • Deut 17:7
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    7 The hand of the witnesses shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. So you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.

  • Matt 27:4
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    4 saying, "I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood." But they said, "What is that to us? You see to it."

  • Isa 33:15
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    15 He 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 blood, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil--

  • Matt 27:25
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    25 All the people answered, "May his blood be on us, and on our children!"

  • Isa 5:23
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    23 who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice for the innocent!

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    15 You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'Whoever curses his God shall bear his sin.

  • 1 Sam 17:27
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    27 The people answered him in this way, saying, "So shall it be done to the man who kills him."

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    8 Forgive, Yahweh, your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and don't allow innocent blood [to remain] in the midst of your people Israel." The blood shall be forgiven them.

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    17 A man who is tormented by life blood will be a fugitive until death; no one will support him.

  • Ezek 18:13
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    13 has given forth on interest, and has taken increase; shall he then live? he shall not live: he has done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be on him.

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    12 "One who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death,

  • Prov 28:20
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    20 A faithful man is rich with blessings; but one who is eager to be rich will not go unpunished.

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    10 in whose hands is wickedness, their right hand is full of bribes.

  • Ps 15:5
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    5 he 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. A Poem by David.

  • Exod 21:14
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    14 If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbor to kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.

  • Prov 1:11
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    11 If they say, "Come with us, Let's lay in wait for blood; let's lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;

  • Jer 26:15
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    15 Only know for certain that, if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood on yourselves, and on this city, and on its inhabitants; for of a truth Yahweh has sent me to you to speak all these words in your ears.

  • Zech 5:3
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    3 Then he said to me, "This is the curse that goes out over the surface of the whole land; for everyone who steals shall be cut off according to it on the one side; and everyone who swears falsely shall be cut off according to it on the other side.

  • Exod 21:30
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    30 If a ransom is laid on him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is laid on him.

  • Ps 37:22
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    22 For such as are blessed by him shall inherit the land. Those who are cursed by him shall be cut off.

  • Lev 20:9
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    9 "'For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death: he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.

  • Jer 22:17
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    17 But your eyes and your heart are not but for your covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.

  • Exod 21:17
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    17 "Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.