TOPICAL BIBLE
Covetousness
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Habakkuk 2:9Woe to him who builds his house by unjust gain, to place his nest on high and escape the hand of disaster!Haggai 1:4“Is it a time for you yourselves to live in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?”Haggai 1:5Now this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.Haggai 1:6You have planted much but harvested little. You eat but never have enough. You drink but never have your fill. You put on clothes but never get warm. You earn wages to put into a bag pierced through.”Haggai 1:7This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.Haggai 1:8Go up into the hills, bring down lumber, and build the house, so that I may take pleasure in it and be glorified, says the LORD.Haggai 1:9You expected much, but behold, it amounted to little. And what you brought home, I blew away. Why? declares the LORD of Hosts. Because My house still lies in ruins, while each of you is busy with his own house.Malachi 1:10“Oh, that one of you would shut the temple doors, so that you would no longer kindle useless fires on My altar! I take no pleasure in you,” says the LORD of Hosts, “and I will accept no offering from your hands.Matthew 6:19Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.Matthew 6:20But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal.Matthew 6:21For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.Matthew 6:24No one can serve two masters: Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.Matthew 6:25Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?Matthew 6:31Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’Matthew 6:32For the Gentiles strive after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.Matthew 6:33But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you.Matthew 13:22The seed sown among the thorns is the one who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.Matthew 16:26What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?Matthew 19:16Just then a man came up to Jesus and inquired, “Teacher, what good thing must I do to obtain eternal life?”Matthew 19:17“Why do you ask Me about what is good?” Jesus replied. “There is only One who is good. If you want to enter life, keep the commandments.”Matthew 19:18“Which ones?” the man asked. Jesus answered, “‘Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not bear false witness,Matthew 19:19honor your father and mother, and love your neighbor as yourself.’”Matthew 19:20“All these I have kept,” said the young man. “What do I still lack?”Matthew 19:21Jesus told him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow Me.”Matthew 19:22When the young man heard this, he went away in sorrow, because he had great wealth.Matthew 19:23Then Jesus said to His disciples, “Truly I tell you, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.Matthew 19:24Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”Matthew 21:12Then Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those selling doves.Matthew 21:13And He declared to them, “It is written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer.’ But you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’”Matthew 22:1Once again, Jesus spoke to them in parables:Matthew 22:2“The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son.Matthew 22:3He sent his servants to call those he had invited to the banquet, but they refused to come.Matthew 22:4Again, he sent other servants and said, ‘Tell those who have been invited that I have prepared my dinner. My oxen and fattened cattle have been killed, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.’Matthew 22:5But they paid no attention and went away, one to his field, another to his business.Matthew 22:6The rest seized his servants, mistreated them, and killed them.Matthew 22:7The king was enraged, and he sent his troops to destroy those murderers and burn their city.Matthew 22:8Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding banquet is ready, but those I invited were not worthy.Matthew 22:9Go therefore to the crossroads and invite to the banquet as many as you can find.’Matthew 22:10So the servants went out into the streets and gathered everyone they could find, both evil and good, and the wedding hall was filled with guests.Matthew 22:11But when the king came in to see the guests, he spotted a man who was not dressed in wedding clothes.Matthew 22:12‘Friend,’ he asked, ‘how did you get in here without wedding clothes?’ But the man was speechless.Matthew 22:13Then the king told the servants, ‘Tie him hand and foot, and throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’Matthew 22:14For many are called, but few are chosen.”Matthew 26:15and asked, “What are you willing to give me if I hand Him over to you?” And they set out for him thirty pieces of silver.Matthew 26:16So from then on Judas looked for an opportunity to betray Jesus.Mark 4:19but the worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth, and the desire for other things come in and choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.Mark 7:21For from within the hearts of men come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,Mark 7:22greed, wickedness, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, arrogance, and foolishness.Mark 7:23All these evils come from within, and these are what defile a man.”Mark 14:10Then Judas Iscariot, one of the Twelve, went to the chief priests to betray Jesus to them.Mark 14:11They were delighted to hear this, and they promised to give him money. So Judas began to look for an opportunity to betray Jesus.Luke 7:14Then He went up and touched the coffin, and those carrying it stood still. “Young man,” He said, “I tell you, get up!”Luke 12:15And He said to them, “Watch out! Guard yourselves against every form of greed, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”Luke 12:16Then He told them a parable: “The ground of a certain rich man produced an abundance.Luke 12:17So he thought to himself, ‘What shall I do, since I have nowhere to store my crops?’Luke 12:18Then he said, ‘This is what I will do: I will tear down my barns and will build bigger ones, and there I will store up all my grain and my goods.Luke 12:19Then I will say to myself, “You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take it easy. Eat, drink, and be merry!”’Luke 12:20But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be required of you. Then who will own what you have accumulated?’Luke 12:21This is how it will be for anyone who stores up treasure for himself but is not rich toward God.”Luke 12:33Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide yourselves with purses that will not wear out, an inexhaustible treasure in heaven, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.