Bible Verses About Corruption

They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters.

For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.

Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.

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

For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.

That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.

In whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes.

But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.

I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.

For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.

A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.

A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.

Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.

He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.

That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.

Is it fit to say to a king, Thou art wicked? and to princes, Ye are ungodly?

Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.

Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.

There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as an error which proceedeth from the ruler:

Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.

If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked.

To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!

Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?

He leadeth princes away spoiled, and overthroweth the mighty.

So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment.

There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.

For they know not to do right, saith the Lord, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.

If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.

Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.

For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.

Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:

Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.

They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily.

He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools.

He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.

For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.

But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men’s matters.

Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall inherit them: for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.

They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.