Proverbs 15:27

A Wise Son Brings Blessings To Others

²⁶ Plans of evil [are] an abomination of Yahweh, but gracious words are pure. ²⁷ He who makes trouble for his house [is] he who is greedy for unjust gain, but he who hates bribes will live. ²⁸ A heart of righteousness will ponder the answer, but a mouth of wickedness will pour out deceit.

Greedy for Gain

No

Exodus 23:8

And you will not take a bribe, because the bribe makes [the] sighted blind and ruins [the] words of [the] righteous.

Proverbs 1:19

Thus are the ways of all who are greedy [for] gain-- it will take the life of its possessors.

Deuteronomy 16:19

You shall not subvert justice; you shall not {show partiality}; and you shall not take a bribe, for the bribe makes blind [the] eyes of [the] wise and misrepresents [the] words of [the] righteous.

Proverbs 11:29

He who brings trouble [to] his household, he will inherit wind, and a fool will serve the wise of heart.

Jeremiah 17:11

[Like] a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay [is] one who amasses wealth without justice. In the middle of his days it will leave him, and at his end he will [prove to] be a fool."

Exodus 18:21

And you will select from all the people men of ability, fearers of God, trustworthy men, haters of [dishonest] gain, and you will appoint [such men] over them [as] commanders of thousands, commanders of hundreds, commanders of fifties, and commanders of tens.

Deuteronomy 7:26

And you must not bring a detestable thing into your house, or you will become a thing devoted to destruction like it; you must utterly detest it, and you must utterly abhor it, for it [is] [an] object devoted to destruction.

Joshua 6:18

As for you, keep [away] from the things devoted to destruction so that you do not take them and bring about your own destruction, making the camp of Israel an object for destruction, bringing trouble upon it.

Joshua 7:11-12

Israel has sinned and {transgressed my covenant} that I commanded them. They have taken from the devoted things; they have stolen and acted deceitfully, and they have put [them] among their belongings.

Joshua 7:24-25

Then Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan son of Zerah, the silver, the robe, the bar of gold, his sons and daughters, his cattle and donkeys, his sheep, his tent, and everything that [was] his, and they brought them [to] the valley of Achor.

1 Samuel 8:3-5

But his sons did not walk in his ways; they turned aside after gain, they took bribes, and they perverted justice.

2 Kings 5:27

The skin disease of Naaman shall cling to you and to your offspring forever." Then he went out from before him having a skin disease like the snow.

Proverbs 11:19

He who is steadfast in righteousness [is] to life as he who pursues evil [is] to death.

Proverbs 20:21

An inheritance acquired [hastily] {at the beginning} will not be blessed at its end.

Proverbs 28:16

A ruler who lacks understanding is a cruel oppressor, [but] those who hate unjust gain will have long days.

Proverbs 29:4

By justice a king gives stability [to] a land, but a man of bribes will ruin it.

Isaiah 5:8-10

Ah! Those who {join} house with house, they join field together with field until {there is no place} and you are caused to dwell alone in the midst of the land.

Isaiah 33:15-16

He who walks [in] righteousness and speaks uprightness, who rejects [the] gain of extortion, who {refuses} bribe, who stops up his ears from hearing {bloodshed} and shuts his eyes from seeing evil.

Habakkuk 2:9-11

Woe to [him who] obtains profit [from] evil gain for his house, to set his nest on high, to be saved from the hand of misfortune!

Zechariah 5:3-4

And he said to me, "This [is] the curse going out over the surface of the whole earth. For everyone who steals has gone unpunished according to it, and [likewise] everyone who swears [falsely] has gone unpunished according to it.