Psalms 26:10

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 23:8 : 8 "You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have sight and perverts the words of the righteous.
  • 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.
  • 1 Sam 8:3 : 3 His sons didn't walk in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted justice.
  • Ps 10:14 : 14 But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.
  • Ps 11:2 : 2 For, behold, the wicked bend their bows. They set their arrows on the strings, that they may shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.
  • Ps 36:4 : 4 He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn't abhor evil.
  • Ps 52:2 : 2 Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
  • Ps 55:9-9 : 9 Confuse them, Lord, and confound their language, for I have seen violence and strife in the city. 10 Day and night they prowl around on its walls. Malice and abuse are also within her. 11 Destructive forces are within her. Threats and lies don't depart from her streets.
  • Prov 1:16 : 16 for their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.
  • Prov 4:16 : 16 For they don't sleep, unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.
  • Isa 33:15 : 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--
  • 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.
  • Amos 5:12 : 12 For I know how many your offenses, and how great are your sins-- you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn aside the needy in the courts.
  • Mic 2:1-3 : 1 Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand. 2 They covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage. 3 Therefore thus says Yahweh: "Behold, I am planning against these people a disaster, from which you will not remove your necks, neither will you walk haughtily; for it is an evil time.
  • Mic 7:3 : 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 26:3-4 : 3 Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas. 4 They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit, and kill him.
  • Acts 23:12 : 12 When it was day, some of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.

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    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.

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    8 whose mouths speak deceit, Whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

  • Prov 17:23
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    23 A wicked man receives a bribe in secret, to pervert the ways of justice.

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    3 Don't draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

    4 Give them according to their work, and according to the wickedness of their doings. Give them according to the operation of their hands. Bring back on them what they deserve.

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    9 Don't gather my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloodthirsty men;

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    2 No, in your heart you plot injustice. You measure out the violence of your hands in the earth.

  • Ps 10:7
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    7 His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

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

  • Prov 11:21
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    21 Most certainly, the evil man will not be unpunished, but the seed of the righteous will be delivered.

  • 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--

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    16 Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

  • Mic 6:10-12
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    10 Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short ephah that is accursed?

    11 Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, and with a bag of deceitful weights?

    12 Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.

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    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.

  • Prov 24:2
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    2 for their hearts plot violence, and their lips talk about mischief.

  • Isa 59:3
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    3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue mutters wickedness.

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    11 Rescue me, and deliver me out of the hands of foreigners, whose mouths speak deceit, whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

  • Mic 2:1
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    1 Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

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    22 In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress shall overtake him. The hand of everyone who is in misery shall come on him.

  • 1 Sam 24:13
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    13 As the proverb of the ancients says, 'Out of the wicked comes forth wickedness;' but my hand shall not be on you.

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    3 For the scepter of wickedness won't remain over the allotment of the righteous; so that the righteous won't use their hands to do evil.

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    27 Charge them with crime upon crime. Don't let them come into your righteousness.

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    9 For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.

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    6 Set a wicked man over him. Let an adversary stand at his right hand.

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    14 "whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness."

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    16 for their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.

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    26 For among my people are found wicked men. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.

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    11 Destructive forces are within her. Threats and lies don't depart from her streets.

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    4 Yahweh, keep me from the hands of the wicked. Preserve me from the violent men who have determined to trip my feet.

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

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    10 Whoever causes the upright to go astray in an evil way, he will fall into his own trap; but the blameless will inherit good.

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    7 The violence of the wicked will drive them away, because they refuse to do what is right.

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    12 On my right hand rise the rabble. They thrust aside my feet, They cast up against me their ways of destruction.

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    6 The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them, but the unfaithful will be trapped by evil desires.

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    7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their paths.

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    2 In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.

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    12 For I know how many your offenses, and how great are your sins-- you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn aside the needy in the courts.

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    8 For in the hand of Yahweh there is a cup, full of foaming wine mixed with spices. He pours it out. Indeed the wicked of the earth drink and drink it to its very dregs.