Proverbs 15:27
He who is greedy for gain troubles his own house, but he who hates bribes will live.
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- Exodus 23:8 “You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have sight and perverts the words of the righteous.
- Proverbs 1:19 So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain. It takes away the life of its owners.
- Jeremiah 17:11 As the partridge that sits on eggs which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right. In the middle of his days, they will leave him. At his end, he will be a fool.