TOPICAL BIBLE
Covetousness
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2 Kings 5:27Therefore the leprosy of Naaman will cling to you and to your seed forever.” He went out from his presence a leper, as white as snow.Nehemiah 5:1Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews.Nehemiah 5:2For there were that said, “We, our sons and our daughters, are many. Let us get grain, that we may eat and live.”Nehemiah 5:3Some also there were that said, “We are mortgaging our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses. Let us get grain, because of the famine.”Nehemiah 5:4There were also some who said, “We have borrowed money for the king’s tribute using our fields and our vineyards as collateral.Nehemiah 5:5Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children as their children. Behold, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters have been brought into bondage. Neither is it in our power to help it; for other men have our fields and our vineyards.”Nehemiah 5:6I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words.Nehemiah 5:7Then 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 5:8I 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 never a word.Nehemiah 5:9Also I said, “The thing that you do is not good. Ought you not to walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?Nehemiah 5:10I likewise, my brothers and my servants, lend them money and grain. Please let us stop this usury.Nehemiah 5:11Please restore to them, even this day, 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 13:10I perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been given them; so that the Levites and the singers, who did the work, had fled everyone to his field.Job 20:15He 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 31:25If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;Job 31:28this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges; for I should have denied the God who is above.Psalm 10:3For the wicked boasts of his heart’s cravings. He blesses the greedy, and condemns Yahweh.Psalm 119:36Turn my heart toward your statutes, not toward selfish gain.Proverbs 1:19So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain. It takes away the life of its owners.Proverbs 11:24There is one who scatters, and increases yet more. There is one who withholds more than is appropriate, but gains poverty.Proverbs 11:26People curse someone who withholds grain, but blessing will be on the head of him who sells it.Proverbs 15:27He who is greedy for gain troubles his own house, but he who hates bribes will live.Proverbs 21:25The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor.Proverbs 21:26There are those who covet greedily all day long; but the righteous give and don’t withhold.Proverbs 22:16Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.Proverbs 23:4Don’t weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.Proverbs 23:5Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.Proverbs 30:8Remove far from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me with the food that is needful for me;Proverbs 30:9lest 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 1:3What does man gain from all his labor in which he labors under the sun?Ecclesiastes 1:4One generation goes, and another generation comes; but the earth remains forever.Ecclesiastes 1:5The sun also rises, and the sun goes down, and hurries to its place where it rises.Ecclesiastes 1:6The 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 1:7All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full. To the place where the rivers flow, there they flow again.Ecclesiastes 1:8All things are full of weariness beyond uttering. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.Ecclesiastes 4:8There 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 5:10He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he who loves abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.Ecclesiastes 5:11When 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 1:23Your 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 5:8Woe 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 midst of the land!Isaiah 56:11Yes, 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.Isaiah 57:17For 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.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 8:10Therefore 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.Jeremiah 17:11As the partridge that sits on eggs which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right; in the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool.Jeremiah 22:17But 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.Jeremiah 51:13You who dwell on many waters, abundant in treasures, your end has come, the measure of your covetousness.Hosea 4:18Their drink has become sour. They play the prostitute continually. Her rulers dearly love their shameful way.Hosea 10:1Israel is a luxuriant vine that puts forth 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 2:2They 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 3:11Her 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.”Micah 7:3Their 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 1:15He 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 1:16Therefore he sacrifices to his net, and burns incense to his dragnet, because by them his life is luxurious, and his food is good.Habakkuk 2:5Yes, 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 2:6Won’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 2:7Won’t your debtors rise up suddenly, and wake up those who make you tremble, and you will be their victim?Habakkuk 2:8Because 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.