Proverbs 15:27

From verse 27

1. Exodus 23:8Rank 1 from verse 27

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   ⁸¶ And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

2. Proverbs 1:19Rank 2 from verse 27

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   ¹⁹So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

3. Jeremiah 17:11Rank 3 from verse 27

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   ¹¹As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.

4. Deuteronomy 16:19Rank 4 from verse 27

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   ¹⁹Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.

5. Isaiah 33:15–16Rank 5 from verse 27

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   ¹⁵He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;

   ¹⁶He shall dwell on high: his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.

6. Proverbs 11:29Rank 6 from verse 27

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   ²⁹He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.

7. Exodus 18:21Rank 7 from verse 27

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   ²¹Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:

8. Joshua 7:24–25Rank 8 from verse 27

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   ²⁴And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had: and they brought them unto the valley of Achor.

   ²⁵And Joshua said, Why hast thou troubled us? the Lord shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones.

9. Habakkuk 2:9–11Rank 9 from verse 27

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   ⁹¶ Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!

   ¹⁰Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned against thy soul.

   ¹¹For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.

10. Zechariah 5:3–4Rank 10 from verse 27

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    ³Then said he unto me, This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off as on this side according to it; and every one that sweareth shall be cut off as on that side according to it.

    ⁴I will bring it forth, saith the Lord of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.

11. 1 Samuel 8:3–5Rank 11 from verse 27

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    ³And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.

    ⁴Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah,

    ⁵And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.

12. 2 Kings 5:27Rank 12 from verse 27

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    ²⁷The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed for ever. And he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow.

13. Deuteronomy 7:26Rank 13 from verse 27

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    ²⁶Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.

14. Isaiah 5:8–10Rank 14 from verse 27

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    ⁸¶ Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!

    ⁹In mine ears said the Lord of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.

    ¹⁰Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.

15. Joshua 6:18Rank 15 from verse 27

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    ¹⁸And ye, in any wise keep yourselves from the accursed thing, lest ye make yourselves accursed, when ye take of the accursed thing, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it.

16. Joshua 7:11–12Rank 16 from verse 27

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    ¹¹Israel hath sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded them: for they have even taken of the accursed thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also, and they have put it even among their own stuff.

    ¹²Therefore the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies, but turned their backs before their enemies, because they were accursed: neither will I be with you any more, except ye destroy the accursed from among you.

17. Proverbs 11:19Rank 17 from verse 27

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    ¹⁹As righteousness tendeth to life: so he that pursueth evil pursueth it to his own death.

18. Proverbs 20:21Rank 18 from verse 27

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    ²¹An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.

19. Proverbs 28:16Rank 19 from verse 27

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    ¹⁶The prince that wanteth understanding is also a great oppressor: but he that hateth covetousness shall prolong his days.

20. Proverbs 29:4Rank 20 from verse 27

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    ⁴The king by judgment establisheth the land: but he that receiveth gifts overthroweth it.