Quotes about Extortion
“If someone sins and acts unfaithfully against the LORD by deceiving his neighbor in regard to a deposit or security entrusted to him or stolen, or if he extorts his neighbor
- Leviticus 6:2
once he has sinned and becomes guilty, he must return what he has stolen or taken by extortion, or the deposit entrusted to him, or the lost property he found,
- Leviticus 6:4
Place no trust in extortion, or false hope in stolen goods. If your riches increase, do not set your heart upon them.
- Psalm 62:10
Surely extortion turns a wise man into a fool, and a bribe corrupts the heart.
- Ecclesiastes 7:7
“But your eyes and heart are set on nothing except your own dishonest gain, on shedding innocent blood, on practicing extortion and oppression.”
- Jeremiah 22:17
As for his father, he will die for his own iniquity, because he practiced extortion, robbed his brother, and did what was wrong among his people.
- Ezekiel 18:18
In you they take bribes to shed blood. You engage in usury, take excess interest, and extort your neighbors. But Me you have forgotten, declares the Lord GOD.
- Ezekiel 22:12
The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have oppressed the poor and needy and have exploited the foreign resident without justice.
- Ezekiel 22:29
The general claim of the oracle is that a new regime of peace and well-being will displace the older (Roman) order of violence and extortion.
- Walter Brueggemann