COVETOUSNESS

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• Genesis 3:6

  When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took some of its fruit, and ate; and she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate it, too.

• Genesis 13:10

  Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well-watered everywhere, before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar.

• Genesis 13:11

  So Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself. Lot traveled east, and they separated themselves the one from the other.

• Genesis 13:12

  Abram lived in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived in the cities of the plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom.

• Genesis 13:13

  Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against Yahweh.

• Genesis 24:29

  Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban. Laban ran out to the man, to the spring.

• Genesis 24:30

  When he saw the ring, and the bracelets on his sister’s hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, “This is what the man said to me,” he came to the man. Behold, he was standing by the camels at the spring.

• Genesis 24:31

  He said, “Come in, you blessed of Yahweh. Why do you stand outside? For I have prepared the house, and room for the camels.”

• Genesis 24:32

  The man came into the house, and he unloaded the camels. He gave straw and feed for the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of the men who were with him.

• Genesis 24:33

  Food was set before him to eat, but he said, “I will not eat until I have told my message.” He said, “Speak on.”

• Genesis 24:34

  He said, “I am Abraham’s servant.

• Genesis 24:35

  Yahweh has blessed my master greatly. He has become great. He has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male servants and female servants, and camels and donkeys.

• Genesis 24:36

  Sarah, my master’s wife, bore a son to my master when she was old. He has given all that he has to him.

• Genesis 24:37

  My master made me swear, saying, ‘You shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I live,

• Genesis 24:38

  but you shall go to my father’s house, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son.’

• Genesis 24:39

  I asked my master, ‘What if the woman will not follow me?’

• Genesis 24:40

  He said to me, ‘Yahweh, before whom I walk, will send his angel with you, and prosper your way. You shall take a wife for my son from my relatives, and of my father’s house.

• Genesis 24:41

  Then will you be clear from my oath, when you come to my relatives. If they don’t give her to you, you shall be clear from my oath.’

• Genesis 24:42

  I came today to the spring, and said, ‘Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, if now you do prosper my way which I go —

• Genesis 24:43

  behold, I am standing by this spring of water. Let it happen, that the maiden who comes out to draw, to whom I will say, “Please give me a little water from your pitcher to drink,”

• Genesis 24:44

  and she will tell me, “Drink, and I will also draw for your camels,” — let her be the woman whom Yahweh has appointed for my master’s son.’

• Genesis 24:45

  Before I had finished speaking in my heart, behold, Rebekah came out with her pitcher on her shoulder. She went down to the spring, and drew. I said to her, ‘Please let me drink.’

• Genesis 24:46

  She hurried and let down her pitcher from her shoulder, and said, ‘Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink.’ So I drank, and she also gave the camels a drink.

• Genesis 24:47

  I asked her, and said, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ She said, ‘The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor’s son, whom Milcah bore to him.’ I put the ring on her nose, and the bracelets on her hands.

• Genesis 24:48

  I bowed my head, and worshiped Yahweh, and blessed Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me in the right way to take my master’s brother’s daughter for his son.

• Genesis 24:49

  Now if you will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me. If not, tell me, that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left.”

• Genesis 24:50

  Then Laban and Bethuel answered, “The thing proceeds from Yahweh. We can’t speak to you bad or good.

• Genesis 24:51

  Behold, Rebekah is before you. Take her, and go, and let her be your master’s son’s wife, as Yahweh has spoken.”

• Genesis 25:31

  Jacob said, “First, sell me your birthright.”

• Genesis 27:6

  Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, “Behold, I heard your father speak to Esau your brother, saying,

• Genesis 27:7

  ‘Bring me venison, and make me savory food, that I may eat, and bless you before Yahweh before my death.’

• Genesis 27:8

  Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command you.

• Genesis 27:9

  Go now to the flock, and get me from there two good young goats. I will make them savory food for your father, such as he loves.

• Genesis 27:10

  You shall bring it to your father, that he may eat, so that he may bless you before his death.”

• Genesis 27:11

  Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.

• Genesis 27:12

  What if my father touches me? I will seem to him as a deceiver, and I would bring a curse on myself, and not a blessing.”

• Genesis 27:13

  His mother said to him, “Let your curse be on me, my son. Only obey my voice, and go get them for me.”

• Genesis 27:14

  He went, and got them, and brought them to his mother. His mother made savory food, such as his father loved.

• Genesis 27:15

  Rebekah took the good clothes of Esau, her elder son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob, her younger son.

• Genesis 27:16

  She put the skins of the young goats on his hands, and on the smooth of his neck.

• Genesis 27:17

  She gave the savory food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.

• Genesis 27:18

  He came to his father, and said, “My father?” He said, “Here I am. Who are you, my son?”

• Genesis 27:19

  Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn. I have done what you asked me to do. Please arise, sit and eat of my venison, that your soul may bless me.”

• Genesis 27:20

  Isaac said to his son, “How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?” He said, “Because Yahweh your God gave me success.”

• Genesis 27:21

  Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come near, that I may feel you, my son, whether you are really my son Esau or not.”

• Genesis 27:22

  Jacob went near to Isaac his father. He felt him, and said, “The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”

• Genesis 27:23

  He didn’t recognize him, because his hands were hairy, like his brother, Esau’s hands. So he blessed him.

• Genesis 27:24

  He said, “Are you really my son Esau?” He said, “I am.”

• Genesis 27:25

  He said, “Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son’s venison, that my soul may bless you.” He brought it near to him, and he ate. He brought him wine, and he drank.

• Genesis 27:26

  His father Isaac said to him, “Come near now, and kiss me, my son.”

• Genesis 27:27

  He came near, and kissed him. He smelled the smell of his clothing, and blessed him, and said, “Behold, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which Yahweh has blessed.

• Genesis 27:28

  God give you of the dew of the sky, of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and new wine.

• Genesis 27:29

  Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers. Let your mother’s sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you. Blessed be everyone who blesses you.”

• Genesis 29:15

  Laban said to Jacob, “Because you are my brother, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what will your wages be?”

• Genesis 29:16

  Laban had two daughters. The name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.

• Genesis 29:17

  Leah’s eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful in form and attractive.

• Genesis 29:18

  Jacob loved Rachel. He said, “I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.”

• Genesis 29:19

  Laban said, “It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me.”

• Genesis 29:20

  Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.

• Genesis 29:21

  Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her.”

• Genesis 29:22

  Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.

• Genesis 29:23

  In the evening, he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him. He went in to her.

• Genesis 29:24

  Laban gave Zilpah his servant to his daughter Leah for a servant.

• Genesis 29:25

  In the morning, behold, it was Leah. He said to Laban, “What is this you have done to me? Didn’t I serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?”

• Genesis 29:26

  Laban said, “It is not done so in our place, to give the younger before the firstborn.

• Genesis 29:27

  Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you will serve with me yet seven other years.”

• Genesis 29:28

  Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. He gave him Rachel his daughter as wife.

• Genesis 29:29

  Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah, his servant, to be her servant.

• Genesis 29:30

  He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.

• Genesis 30:35

  That day, he removed the male goats that were streaked and spotted, and all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white in it, and all the black ones among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.

• Genesis 30:36

  He set three days’ journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob fed the rest of Laban’s flocks.

• Genesis 30:37

  Jacob took to himself rods of fresh poplar, almond, plane tree, peeled white streaks in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.

• Genesis 30:38

  He set the rods which he had peeled opposite the flocks in the gutters in the watering-troughs where the flocks came to drink. They conceived when they came to drink.

• Genesis 30:39

  The flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks produced streaked, speckled, and spotted.

• Genesis 30:40

  Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the streaked and all the black in the flock of Laban: and he put his own droves apart, and didn’t put them into Laban’s flock.

• Genesis 30:41

  Whenever the stronger of the flock conceived, Jacob laid the rods in front of the eyes of the flock in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods;

• Genesis 30:42

  but when the flock were feeble, he didn’t put them in. So the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.

• Genesis 30:43

  The man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, female servants and male servants, and camels and donkeys.

• Genesis 31:7

  Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn’t allow him to hurt me.

• Genesis 31:15

  Aren’t we accounted by him as foreigners? For he has sold us, and has also quite devoured our money.

• Genesis 31:41

  These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.

• Genesis 31:42

  Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night.”

• Exodus 18:21

  Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men which fear God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

• Exodus 20:17

  “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.”

• Deuteronomy 5:21

  “You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. Neither shall you desire your neighbor’s house, his field, or his male servant, or his female servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.”

• Joshua 7:21

  When I saw among the plunder a beautiful Babylonian robe, two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, then I coveted them and took them. Behold, they are hidden in the ground in the middle of my tent, with the silver under it.”

• 1 Samuel 2:13

  The custom of the priests with the people was that when anyone offered a sacrifice, the priest’s servant came while the meat was boiling, with a fork of three teeth in his hand;

• 1 Samuel 2:14

  and he stabbed it into the pan, or kettle, or cauldron, or pot. The priest took all that the fork brought up for himself. So they did in Shiloh to all the Israelites who came there.

• 1 Samuel 2:15

  Yes, before they burned the fat, the priest’s servant came, and said to the man who sacrificed, “Give meat to roast for the priest; for he will not accept boiled meat from you, but raw.”

• 1 Samuel 2:16

  If the man said to him, “Let the fat be burned first, and then take as much as your soul desires”; then he would say, “No, but you shall give it to me now; and if not, I will take it by force.”

• 1 Samuel 2:17

  The sin of the young men was very great before Yahweh; for the men despised the offering of Yahweh.

• 1 Samuel 8:3

  His sons didn’t walk in his ways, but turned aside after dishonest gain, took bribes, and perverted justice.

• 1 Samuel 15:8

  He took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.

• 1 Samuel 15:9

  But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, of the cattle, and of the fat calves, and the lambs, and all that was good, and were not willing to utterly destroy them; but everything that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.

• 2 Samuel 11:2

  At evening, David arose from his bed and walked on the roof of the king’s house. From the roof, he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful to look at.

• 2 Samuel 11:3

  David sent and inquired after the woman. One said, “Isn’t this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, Uriah the Hittite’s wife?”

• 2 Samuel 11:4

  David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in to him, and he lay with her (for she was purified from her uncleanness); and she returned to her house.

• 2 Samuel 11:5

  The woman conceived; and she sent and told David, and said, “I am with child.”

• 1 Kings 21:2

  Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying, “Give me your vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near my house; and I will give you for it a better vineyard than it. Or, if it seems good to you, I will give you its worth in money.”

• 1 Kings 21:3

  Naboth said to Ahab, “May Yahweh forbid me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers to you!”

• 1 Kings 21:4

  Ahab came into his house sullen and angry because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him; for he had said, “I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers.” He laid himself down on his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread.

• 1 Kings 21:5

  But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said to him, “Why is your spirit so sad, that you eat no bread?”

• 1 Kings 21:6

  He said to her, “Because I spoke to Naboth the Jezreelite, and said to him, ‘Give me your vineyard for money; or else, if it pleases you, I will give you another vineyard for it.’ He answered, ‘I will not give you my vineyard.’”

• 1 Kings 21:7

  Jezebel his wife said to him, “Do you now govern the kingdom of Israel? Arise, and eat bread, and let your heart be merry. I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.”

• 1 Kings 21:8

  So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters to the elders and to the nobles who were in his city, who lived with Naboth.

• 1 Kings 21:9

  She wrote in the letters, saying, “Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.

• 1 Kings 21:10

  Set two men, base fellows, before him, and let them testify against him, saying, ‘You cursed God and the king!’ Then carry him out, and stone him to death.”

• 1 Kings 21:11

  The men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who lived in his city, did as Jezebel had instructed them in the letters which she had written and sent to them.

• 1 Kings 21:12

  They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.

• 1 Kings 21:13

  The two men, the base fellows, came in and sat before him. The base fellows testified against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king!” Then they carried him out of the city and stoned him to death with stones.

• 1 Kings 21:14

  Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, “Naboth has been stoned, and is dead.”

• 1 Kings 21:15

  When Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned, and was dead, Jezebel said to Ahab, “Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give you for money; for Naboth is not alive, but dead.”

• 1 Kings 21:16

  When Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, Ahab rose up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it.

• 2 Kings 5:20

  But Gehazi the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, “Behold, my master has spared this Naaman the Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought. As Yahweh lives, I will run after him, and take something from him.”

• 2 Kings 5:21

  So Gehazi followed after Naaman. When Naaman saw one running after him, he came down from the chariot to meet him, and said, “Is all well?”

• 2 Kings 5:22

  He said, “All is well. My master has sent me, saying, ‘Behold, even now two young men of the sons of the prophets have come to me from the hill country of Ephraim. Please give them a talent of silver and two changes of clothing.’”

• 2 Kings 5:23

  Naaman said, “Be pleased to take two talents.” He urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of clothing, and laid them on two of his servants; and they carried them before him.

• 2 Kings 5:24

  When he came to the hill, he took them from their hand, and stored them in the house. Then he let the men go, and they departed.

• 2 Kings 5:25

  But he went in, and stood before his master. Elisha said to him, “Where did you come from, Gehazi?” He said, “Your servant went nowhere.”

• 2 Kings 5:26

  He said to him, “Didn’t my heart go with you, when the man turned from his chariot to meet you? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and olive groves and vineyards, and sheep and cattle, and male servants and female servants?

• 2 Kings 5:27

  Therefore the leprosy of Naaman will cling to you and to your offspring forever.” He went out from his presence a leper, as white as snow.

• Nehemiah 5:1

  Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews.

• Nehemiah 5:2

  For there were that said, “We, our sons and our daughters, are many. Let us get grain, that we may eat and live.”

• Nehemiah 5:3

  There were also some that said, “We are mortgaging our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses. Let us get grain, because of the famine.”

• Nehemiah 5:4

  There were also some who said, “We have borrowed money for the king’s tribute using our fields and our vineyards as collateral.

• Nehemiah 5:5

  Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children as their children. Behold, we bring our sons and our daughters into bondage to be servants, and some of our daughters have been brought into bondage. It is also not in our power to help it, because other men have our fields and our vineyards.”

• Nehemiah 5:6

  I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words.

• Nehemiah 5:7

  Then I consulted with myself, and contended with the nobles and the rulers, and said to them, “You exact usury, everyone of his brother.” I held a great assembly against them.

• Nehemiah 5:8

  I said to them, “We, after our ability, have redeemed our brothers the Jews that were sold to the nations; and would you even sell your brothers, and should they be sold to us?” Then they held their peace, and found not a word to say.

• Nehemiah 5:9

  Also I said, “The thing that you do is not good. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?

• Nehemiah 5:10

  I likewise, my brothers and my servants, lend them money and grain. Please let us stop this usury.

• Nehemiah 5:11

  Please restore to them, even today, their fields, their vineyards, their olive groves, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, that you are charging them.”

• Nehemiah 13:10

  I perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been given them; so that the Levites and the singers, who did the work, had each fled to his field.

• Job 20:15

  He has swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly.

• Job 31:24

  “If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, ‘You are my confidence;’

• Job 31:25

  If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;

• Job 31:28

  this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges; for I should have denied the God who is above.

• Psalms 10:3

  For the wicked boasts of his heart’s cravings. He blesses the greedy, and condemns Yahweh.

• Psalms 119:36

  Turn my heart toward your statutes, not toward selfish gain.

• Proverbs 1:19

  So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain. It takes away the life of its owners.

• Proverbs 11:24

  There is one who scatters, and increases yet more. There is one who withholds more than is appropriate, but gains poverty.

• Proverbs 11:26

  People curse someone who withholds grain, but blessing will be on the head of him who sells it.

• Proverbs 15:27

  He who is greedy for gain troubles his own house, but he who hates bribes will live.

• Proverbs 21:25

  The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor.

• Proverbs 21:26

  There are those who covet greedily all day long; but the righteous give and don’t withhold.

• Proverbs 22:16

  Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.

• Proverbs 23:4

  Don’t weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.

• Proverbs 23:5

  Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.

• Proverbs 30:8

  Remove far from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me with the food that is needful for me;

• Proverbs 30:9

  lest I be full, deny you, and say, ‘Who is Yahweh?’ or lest I be poor, and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God.

• Ecclesiastes 1:2

  “Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher; “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”

• Ecclesiastes 1:3

  What does man gain from all his labor in which he labors under the sun?

• Ecclesiastes 1:4

  One generation goes, and another generation comes; but the earth remains forever.

• Ecclesiastes 1:5

  The sun also rises, and the sun goes down, and hurries to its place where it rises.

• Ecclesiastes 1:6

  The wind goes toward the south, and turns around to the north. It turns around continually as it goes, and the wind returns again to its courses.

• Ecclesiastes 1:7

  All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full. To the place where the rivers flow, there they flow again.

• Ecclesiastes 1:8

  All things are full of weariness beyond uttering. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

• Ecclesiastes 4:8

  There is one who is alone, and he has neither son nor brother. There is no end to all of his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with wealth. “For whom then, do I labor, and deprive my soul of enjoyment?” This also is vanity. Yes, it is a miserable business.

• Ecclesiastes 5:10

  He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he who loves abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.

• Ecclesiastes 5:11

  When goods increase, those who eat them are increased; and what advantage is there to its owner, except to feast on them with his eyes?

• Isaiah 1:23

  Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards. They don’t judge the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

• Isaiah 5:8

  Woe to those who join house to house, who lay field to field, until there is no room, and you are made to dwell alone in the middle of the land!

• Isaiah 56:11

  Yes, the dogs are greedy. They can never have enough. They are shepherds who can’t understand. They have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.

• Isaiah 57:17

  I was angry because of the iniquity of his covetousness, and struck him; I hid myself and was angry; and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.

• Jeremiah 6:13

  “For from their least even to their greatest, everyone is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even to the priest, everyone deals falsely.

• Jeremiah 8:10

  Therefore will I give their wives to others, and their fields to those who shall possess them. For everyone from the least even to the greatest is given to covetousness; from the prophet even to the priest everyone deals falsely.

• Jeremiah 17:11

  As the partridge that sits on eggs which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right; in the middle of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool.

• Jeremiah 22:17

  But your eyes and your heart are not but for your covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, for oppression, and for doing violence.”

• Jeremiah 51:13

  You who dwell on many waters, abundant in treasures, your end has come, the measure of your covetousness.

• Ezekiel 22:12

  In you have they taken bribes to shed blood. You have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me,” says the Lord Yahweh.

• Ezekiel 22:13

  “‘“Behold, therefore I have struck my hand at your dishonest gain which you have made, and at your blood which has been within you.

• Ezekiel 33:31

  They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don’t do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.

• Hosea 4:18

  Their drink has become sour. They play the prostitute continually. Her rulers dearly love their shameful way.

• Hosea 10:1

  Israel is a luxuriant vine that produces his fruit. According to the abundance of his fruit he has multiplied his altars. As their land has prospered, they have adorned their sacred stones.

• Micah 2:2

  They covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

• Micah 3:11

  Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money: yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, “Isn’t Yahweh among us? No disaster will come on us.”

• Micah 7:3

  Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe; and the powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.

• Habakkuk 1:15

  He takes up all of them with the hook. He catches them in his net, and gathers them in his dragnet. Therefore he rejoices and is glad.

• Habakkuk 1:16

  Therefore he sacrifices to his net, and burns incense to his dragnet, because by them his life is luxurious, and his food is good.

• Habakkuk 2:5

  Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous. A haughty man who doesn’t stay at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol, and he is like death, and can’t be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations, and heaps to himself all peoples.

• Habakkuk 2:6

  Won’t all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, ‘Woe to him who increases that which is not his, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?’

• Habakkuk 2:7

  Won’t your debtors rise up suddenly, and wake up those who make you tremble, and you will be their victim?

• Habakkuk 2:8

  Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples will plunder you, because of men’s blood, and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all who dwell in it.

• Habakkuk 2:9

  Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!

• Haggai 1:4

  “Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies waste?

• Haggai 1:5

  Now therefore this is what Yahweh of Armies says: Consider your ways.

• Haggai 1:6

  You have sown much, and bring in little. You eat, but you don’t have enough. You drink, but you aren’t filled with drink. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm, and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes in it.”

• Haggai 1:7

  This is what Yahweh of Armies says: “Consider your ways.

• Haggai 1:8

  Go up to the mountain, bring wood, and build the house. I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified,” says Yahweh.

• Haggai 1:9

  “You looked for much, and, behold, it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?” says Yahweh of Armies, “Because of my house that lies waste, while each of you is busy with his own house.

• Malachi 1:10

  “Oh that there were one among you who would shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you,” says Yahweh of Armies, “neither will I accept an offering at your hand.

• Matthew 6:19

  “Don’t lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;

• Matthew 6:20

  but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, and where thieves don’t break through and steal;

• Matthew 6:21

  for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

• Matthew 6:24

  “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.

• Matthew 6:25

  Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

• Matthew 6:31

  “Therefore don’t be anxious, saying, ‘What will we eat?’, ‘What will we drink?’ or, ‘With what will we be clothed?’

• Matthew 6:32

  For the Gentiles seek after all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.

• Matthew 6:33

  But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

• Matthew 13:22

  What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.

• Matthew 16:26

  For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

• Matthew 19:16

  Behold, one came to him and said, “Good teacher, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?”

• Matthew 19:17

  He said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good but one, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.”

• Matthew 19:18

  He said to him, “Which ones?” Jesus said, “‘You shall not murder.’ ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ ‘You shall not steal.’ ‘You shall not offer false testimony.’

• Matthew 19:19

  ‘Honor your father and your mother.’ And, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’”

• Matthew 19:20

  The young man said to him, “All these things I have observed from my youth. What do I still lack?”

• Matthew 19:21

  Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”

• Matthew 19:22

  But when the young man heard the saying, he went away sad, for he was one who had great possessions.

• Matthew 19:23

  Jesus said to his disciples, “Most certainly I say to you, a rich man will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven with difficulty.

• Matthew 19:24

  Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye, than for a rich man to enter into God’s Kingdom.”

• Matthew 21:12

  Jesus entered into the temple of God, and drove out all of those who sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the money changers’ tables and the seats of those who sold the doves.

• Matthew 21:13

  He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a den of robbers!”

• Matthew 22:1

  Jesus answered and spoke again in parables to them, saying,

• Matthew 22:2

  “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who made a marriage feast for his son,

• Matthew 22:3

  and sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the marriage feast, but they would not come.

• Matthew 22:4

  Again he sent out other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who are invited, “Behold, I have prepared my dinner. My cattle and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready. Come to the marriage feast!”’

• Matthew 22:5

  But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his own farm, another to his merchandise,

• Matthew 22:6

  and the rest grabbed his servants, and treated them shamefully, and killed them.

• Matthew 22:7

  When the king heard that, he was angry, and sent his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.

• Matthew 22:8

  “Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding is ready, but those who were invited weren’t worthy.

• Matthew 22:9

  Go therefore to the intersections of the highways, and as many as you may find, invite to the marriage feast.’

• Matthew 22:10

  Those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together as many as they found, both bad and good. The wedding was filled with guests.

• Matthew 22:11

  But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man who didn’t have on wedding clothing,

• Matthew 22:12

  and he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you come in here not wearing wedding clothing?’ He was speechless.

• Matthew 22:13

  Then the king said to the servants, ‘Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and throw him into the outer darkness; there is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.’

• Matthew 22:14

  For many are called, but few chosen.”

• Matthew 26:15

  and said, “What are you willing to give me, that I should deliver him to you?” They weighed out for him thirty pieces of silver.

• Matthew 26:16

  From that time he sought opportunity to betray him.

• Mark 4:19

  and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

• Mark 7:21

  For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,

• Mark 7:22

  covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.

• Mark 7:23

  All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.”

• Luke 7:14

  He came near and touched the coffin, and the bearers stood still. He said, “Young man, I tell you, arise!”

• Luke 12:15

  He said to them, “Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.”

• Luke 12:16

  He spoke a parable to them, saying, “The ground of a certain rich man produced abundantly.

• Luke 12:17

  He reasoned within himself, saying, ‘What will I do, because I don’t have room to store my crops?’

• Luke 12:18

  He said, ‘This is what I will do. I will pull down my barns, and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.

• Luke 12:19

  I will tell my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, be merry.”’

• Luke 12:20

  “But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared — whose will they be?’

• Luke 12:21

  So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.”

• Luke 12:33

  Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don’t grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn’t fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys.

• Luke 12:34

  For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

• Luke 14:16

  But he said to him, “A certain man made a great supper, and he invited many people.

• Luke 14:17

  He sent out his servant at supper time to tell those who were invited, ‘Come, for everything is ready now.’

• Luke 14:18

  They all as one began to make excuses. “The first said to him, ‘I have bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please have me excused.’

• Luke 14:19

  “Another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I must go try them out. Please have me excused.’

• Luke 14:20

  “Another said, ‘I have married a wife, and therefore I can’t come.’

• Luke 14:21

  “That servant came, and told his lord these things. Then the master of the house, being angry, said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in the poor, maimed, blind, and lame.’

• Luke 14:22

  “The servant said, ‘Lord, it is done as you commanded, and there is still room.’

• Luke 14:23

  “The lord said to the servant, ‘Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.

• Luke 14:24

  For I tell you that none of those men who were invited will taste of my supper.’”

• Luke 18:24

  Jesus, seeing that he became very sad, said, “How hard it is for those who have riches to enter into God’s Kingdom!

• Luke 18:25

  For it is easier for a camel to enter in through a needle’s eye, than for a rich man to enter into God’s Kingdom.”

• Luke 19:45

  He entered into the temple, and began to drive out those who bought and sold in it,

• Luke 19:46

  saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house is a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a ‘den of robbers’!”

• John 2:14

  He found in the temple those who sold oxen, sheep, and doves, and the changers of money sitting.

• John 2:15

  He made a whip of cords, and threw all out of the temple, both the sheep and the oxen; and he poured out the changers’ money, and overthrew their tables.

• John 2:16

  To those who sold the doves, he said, “Take these things out of here! Don’t make my Father’s house a marketplace!”

• John 6:26

  Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, you seek me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves, and were filled.

• John 6:27

  Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”

• Romans 1:29

  being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,

• Romans 13:9

  For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,” and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

• 1 Corinthians 5:11

  But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortionist. Don’t even eat with such a person.

• 1 Corinthians 6:10

  nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortionists, will inherit God’s Kingdom.

• Ephesians 5:3

  But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;

• Ephesians 5:5

  Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.

• Philippians 3:18

  For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, as the enemies of the cross of Christ,

• Philippians 3:19

  whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.

• Colossians 3:2

  Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.

• Colossians 3:5

  Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

• Colossians 3:6

  for which things’ sake the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

• 1 Thessalonians 2:5

  For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),

• 1 Timothy 3:3

  not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;

• 1 Timothy 6:5

  constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. Withdraw yourself from such.

• 1 Timothy 6:6

  But godliness with contentment is great gain.

• 1 Timothy 6:7

  For we brought nothing into the world, and we certainly can’t carry anything out.

• 1 Timothy 6:8

  But having food and clothing, we will be content with that.

• 1 Timothy 6:9

  But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.

• 1 Timothy 6:10

  For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

• 1 Timothy 6:11

  But you, man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness.

• 1 Timothy 6:17

  Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be haughty, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;

• 2 Timothy 3:2

  For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

• Titus 1:7

  For the overseer must be blameless, as God’s steward; not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;

• Titus 1:11

  whose mouths must be stopped; men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain’s sake.

• Hebrews 13:5

  Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

• James 4:2

  You lust, and don’t have. You murder and covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask.

• James 4:13

  Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.”

• James 4:14

  Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

• James 4:15

  For you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that.”

• James 4:16

  But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.

• James 4:17

  To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.

• 1 Peter 5:2

  Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not under compulsion, but voluntarily, not for dishonest gain, but willingly;

• 2 Peter 2:3

  In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

• 2 Peter 2:14

  having eyes full of adultery, and who can’t cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;

• 2 Peter 2:15

  forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing;

• 2 Peter 2:16

  but he was rebuked for his own disobedience. A mute donkey spoke with a man’s voice and stopped the madness of the prophet.

• 1 John 1:11
• 1 John 2:15

  Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.

• 1 John 2:16

  For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.

• 1 John 2:17

  The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.