Being Greedy

Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live.

Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. — read the full passage →

Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.

I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.

But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.

And he looked up, and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury. — read the full passage →

How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver!

Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, — read the full passage →

Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? — read the full passage →

The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the Lord of hosts.

And he called him, and said unto him, How is it that I hear this of thee? give an account of thy stewardship; for thou mayest be no longer steward.

But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together. — read the full passage →

Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.

Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.

And it came to pass in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the side of mount Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Beth–lehem–judah. — read the full passage →

But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption; — read the full passage →

And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.

And when ye come into an house, salute it. — read the full passage →

I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.

I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.

For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ. — read the full passage →

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake. — read the full passage →

Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. — read the full passage →

Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.

In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness. — read the full passage →

And he shewed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him. — read the full passage →

And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground; — read the full passage →

For thus saith the Lord of hosts; Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land; — read the full passage →

Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the Lord’s wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.

I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved. — read the full passage →

Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed. — read the full passage →

For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? — read the full passage →

And it came to pass, that, as the people pressed upon him to hear the word of God, he stood by the lake of Gennesaret, — read the full passage →

And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death. — read the full passage →

Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous. — read the full passage →

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. — read the full passage →

But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully; — read the full passage →

If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel; — read the full passage →

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, — read the full passage →

And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. — read the full passage →

For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.

Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, — read the full passage →

Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. — read the full passage →

We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. — read the full passage →

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God, — read the full passage →

For I say unto you, That unto every one which hath shall be given; and from him that hath not, even that he hath shall be taken away from him. — read the full passage →

In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. — read the full passage →

He answereth and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do likewise. — read the full passage →

For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. — read the full passage →

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. — read the full passage →

Then said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven.

And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. — read the full passage →

The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord.

Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. — read the full passage →

And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Darius, that the word of the Lord came unto Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, even in Chisleu; — read the full passage →

And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, — read the full passage →

But, The Lord liveth, which brought up and which led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all countries whither I had driven them; and they shall dwell in their own land. — read the full passage →

For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men. — read the full passage →

Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people. — read the full passage →

Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man. — read the full passage →

He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich. — read the full passage →

The ransom of a man’s life are his riches: but the poor heareth not rebuke. — read the full passage →

The wicked worketh a deceitful work: but to him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward. — read the full passage →

My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments: — read the full passage →

Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart. — read the full passage →

But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace. — read the full passage →

The earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.

If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles. — read the full passage →

A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.

Jehoshaphat made ships of Tharshish to go to Ophir for gold: but they went not; for the ships were broken at Ezion–geber.

And Ben–hadad the king of Syria gathered all his host together: and there were thirty and two kings with him, and horses, and chariots: and he went up and besieged Samaria, and warred against it. — read the full passage →

And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.

There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel. — read the full passage →

If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother: — read the full passage →

And when king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in the south, heard tell that Israel came by the way of the spies; then he fought against Israel, and took some of them prisoners. — read the full passage →

And when the people complained, it displeased the Lord: and the Lord heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the Lord burnt among them, and consumed them that were in the uttermost parts of the camp. — read the full passage →

And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory. — read the full passage →

Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ: — read the full passage →

Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Cesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Iturea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene, — read the full passage →

In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of the Lord by Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, saying, — read the full passage →

Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people: — read the full passage →

And it came to pass the same year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, and in the fifth month, that Hananiah the son of Azur the prophet, which was of Gibeon, spake unto me in the house of the Lord, in the presence of the priests and of all the people, saying, — read the full passage →