Acts 24:26
Hee hoped also that money shoulde haue bene giuen him of Paul, that he might loose him: wherefore hee sent for him the oftner, and communed with him.
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Exodus 23:8Thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and peruerteth the wordes of the righteous.
1 Samuel 8:3And his sonnes walked not in his wayes, but turned aside after lucre, and tooke rewards, and peruerted the iudgement.
2 Chronicles 19:7Wherefore nowe let the feare of the Lord be vpon you: take heede, and do it: for there is no iniquitie with the Lord our God, neither respect of persons, nor receiuing of reward.
Psalms 26:9Gather not my soule with the sinners, nor my life with the bloodie men:
Proverbs 17:23A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosome to wrest the wayes of iudgement.
Proverbs 29:4A King by iudgement mainteineth ye countrey: but a man receiuing giftes, destroyeth it.
Matthew Henry on Acts 24:23-27
Paul Converses with Felix; Felix Trembles; Paul's Trial Adjourned. 22 And when Felix heard these things, having more perfect knowledge of that way, he deferred them, and said, When Lysias the chief captain shall come down, I will know the uttermost of your matter. 23 And he commanded a centurion to keep Paul, and to let him have liberty, and that he should forbid none of his acquaintance to minister or come unto him. 24 And after certain days, when Felix came with his wife Drusilla, which was a Jewess, he sent for… Read the whole commentary →