A. Gifts can help obtain a man's favour or forgiveness:

PRO 19:6. Many will intreat the favour of the prince: and every man is a friend to him that giveth gifts.

PRO 21:14. A gift in secret pacifieth anger: and a reward in the bosom strong wrath.

PRO 17:23. A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.

B. When not to accept gifts:

EXO 23:8. And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

NUM 22:18. And Balaam answered and said unto the servants of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the LORD my God, to do less or more.

1KI 13:7. And the king said unto the man of God, Come home with me, and refresh thyself, and I will give thee a reward.

1KI 13:8. And the man of God said unto the king, If thou wilt give me half thine house, I will not go in with thee, neither will I eat bread nor drink water in this place:

1KI 13:9. For so was it charged me by the word of the LORD, saying, Eat no bread, nor drink water, nor turn again by the same way that thou camest.

1KI 13:10. So he went another way, and returned not by the way that he came to Bethel.

2KI 5:15. And he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came, and stood before him: and he said, Behold, now I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel: now therefore, I pray thee, take a blessing of thy servant.

2KI 5:16. But he said, As the LORD liveth, before whom I stand, I will receive none. And he urged him to take it; but he refused.

2KI 5:20. But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my master hath spared Naaman this Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought: but, as the LORD liveth, I will run after him, and take somewhat of him.

2KI 5:21. So Gehazi followed after Naaman. And when Naaman saw him running after him, he lighted down from the chariot to meet him, and said, Is all well?

2KI 5:22. And he said, All is well. My master hath sent me,

saying, Behold, even now there be come to me from mount Ephraim two young men of the sons of the prophets: give them, I pray thee, a talent of silver, and two changes of garments.

2KI 5:23. And Naaman said, Be content, take two talents. And

he urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with

two changes of garments, and laid them upon two of his servants;

and they bare them before him.

2KI 5:24. And when he came to the tower, he took [them] from

their hand, and bestowed them in the house: and he let the men

go, and they departed.

2KI 5:25. But he went in, and stood before his master. And Elisha said unto him, Whence comest thou, Gehazi? And he said, Thy servant went no whither.

2KI 5:26. And he said unto him, Went not mine heart with thee, when the man turned again from his chariot to meet thee? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and oliveyards, and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and maidservants?

2KI 5:27. The 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.

DEU 16:19. 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.

PRO 29:4. The king by judgment establisheth the land: but he that receiveth gifts overthroweth it.