pervert
13 occurrences across the corpus
King James Version
Thou 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.
Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow’s raiment to pledge:
Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?
Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?
Yea, surely God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert judgment.
A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.
Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.
Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.
And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?
Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.
1 Enoch
Woe to them who pervert the words of uprightness, And transgress the eternal law, And transform themselves into what they were not into sinners: They shall be trodden under foot upon the earth.
And now I know this mystery, that sinners will alter and pervert the words of righteousness in many ways, and will speak wicked words, and lie, and practice great deceits, and write books concerning their words.
And he said unto me: 'This place which thou seest--here are cast the spirits of sinners and blasphemers, and of those who work wickedness, and of those who pervert everything that the Lord hath spoken through the mouth of the prophets--(even) the things that shall be.