Quotes about Corruption
Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets practice divination for money. Yet they lean upon the LORD, saying, “Is not the LORD among us? No disaster can come upon us.”
- Micah 3:11
For the wealthy of the city are full of violence, and its residents speak lies; their tongues are deceitful in their mouths.
- Micah 6:12
Both hands are skilled at evil; the prince and the judge demand a bribe. When the powerful utters his evil desire, they all conspire together.
- Micah 7:3
Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, full of plunder, never without prey.
- Nahum 3:1
Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted.
- Habakkuk 1:4
Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed and establishes a town by iniquity!
- Habakkuk 2:12
Woe to the city of oppressors, rebellious and defiled!
- Zephaniah 3:1
Her prophets are reckless, faithless men. Her priests profane the sanctuary; they do violence to the law.
- Zephaniah 3:4
I said, ‘Surely you will fear Me and accept correction.’ Then her dwelling place would not be cut off despite all for which I punished her. But they rose early to corrupt all their deeds.
- Zephaniah 3:7
And after the chief priests had met with the elders and formed a plan, they gave the soldiers a large sum of money
- Matthew 28:12
greed, wickedness, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, arrogance, and foolishness.
- Mark 7:22
All these evils come from within, and these are what defile a man.”
- Mark 7:23