Covetousness

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.”

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

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.”

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

“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.”

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.

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

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn’t have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn’t have known coveting, unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”

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.

Don’t love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him. — read the full passage →

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.” — read the full passage →

He said, “That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man. — read the full passage →

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.

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.”

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

Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

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

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

Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men, such as 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.

Now when they saw some of his disciples eating bread with defiled, that is, unwashed, hands, they found fault.

Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law. — read the full passage →

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

A tyrannical ruler lacks judgment. One who hates ill-gotten gain will have long days.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

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

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.

But your eyes and your heart are not but for your covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, — read the full passage →

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.

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

Therefore whatever you have said in the darkness will be heard in the light. What you have spoken in the ear in the inner rooms will be proclaimed on the housetops.

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

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

The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.

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

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. — read the full passage →

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!

Woe to them! For they went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in Korah’s rebellion.

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

He said to him, “Go in peace.” So he departed from him a little way. — read the full passage →

Achan answered Joshua, and said, “I have truly sinned against Yahweh, the God of Israel, and this is what I have done. — read the full passage →

Meanwhile, when a multitude of many thousands had gathered together, so much so that they trampled on each other, he began to tell his disciples first of all, “Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

“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.”

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

Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, — read the full passage →

nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortionists, will inherit the Kingdom of God.

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery;’ — read the full passage →

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

For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

He called him, and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Give an accounting of your management, for you can no longer be manager.’

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.”

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

“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.

But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the cattle, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and wouldn’t utterly destroy them: but everything that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.

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

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?

Then one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests, — read the full passage →

Why then didn’t you obey the voice of Yahweh, but took the plunder, and did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh?”

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he who loves abundance, with increase: this also is vanity. — read the full passage →

“Therefore don’t be anxious, saying, ‘What will we eat?’, ‘What will we drink?’ or, ‘With what will we be clothed?’ — read the full passage →

But each one is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed. — read the full passage →

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

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

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 every one deals falsely.

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.

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

For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts, — read the full passage →

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.

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

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

But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the devoted things; for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of the devoted things. Therefore Yahweh’s anger burned against the children of Israel. — read the full passage →

But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira, his wife, sold a possession, — read the full passage →

For this is the will of God, that by well-doing you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:

But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira, his wife, sold a possession, — read the full passage →

Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord Yahweh, the God of Israel.

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.

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

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 in the midst of us? No disaster will come on us.”

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?

After this, Absalom the son of David had a beautiful sister, whose name was Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved her. — read the full passage →

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Meanwhile, when a multitude of many thousands had gathered together, so much so that they trampled on each other, he began to tell his disciples first of all, “Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. — read the full passage →

Or don’t you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives? — read the full passage →

The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?

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

But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints; — read the full passage →

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

But godliness with contentment is great gain. — read the full passage →

One of the multitude said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

Achan answered Joshua, and said, “I have truly sinned against Yahweh, the God of Israel, and this is what I have done. — read the full passage →

For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

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

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

He brought near his household man by man, and Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was selected. — read the full passage →