TOPICAL BIBLE
Covetousness
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Habakkuk 2:9Woe to him who is gaining evil gain for his house, To set on high his nest, To be delivered from the hand of evil,Haggai 1:4Is it time for you—you! To dwell in your covered houses, And this house to lie waste?Haggai 1:5And now, thus said Jehovah of Hosts, Set your heart to your ways.Haggai 1:6Ye have sown much, and brought in little, To eat, and not to satiety, To drink, and not to drunkenness, To clothe, and none hath heat, And he who is hiring himself out, Is hiring himself for a bag pierced through.Haggai 1:7Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Set your heart to your ways.Haggai 1:8Go up the mountain, and ye have brought in wood, And build the house, and I am pleased with it. And I am honoured, said Jehovah.Haggai 1:9Looking for much, and lo, little, And ye brought it home, and I blew on it, Wherefore?—an affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts, Because of My house that is waste, And ye are running—each to his house,Malachi 1:10Who is even among you, And he shutteth the two-leaved doors? Yea, ye do not kindle Mine altar for nought, I have no pleasure in you, said Jehovah of Hosts, And a present I do not accept of your hand.Matthew 6:19‘Treasure not up to yourselves treasures on the earth, where moth and rust disfigure, and where thieves break through and steal,Matthew 6:20but treasure up to yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth disfigure, and where thieves do not break through nor steal,Matthew 6:21for where your treasure is, there will be also your heart.Matthew 6:24‘None is able to serve two lords, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will hold to the one, and despise the other; ye are not able to serve God and Mammon.Matthew 6:25‘Because of this I say to you, be not anxious for your life, what ye may eat, and what ye may drink, nor for your body, what ye may put on. Is not the life more than the nourishment, and the body than the clothing?Matthew 6:31therefore ye may not be anxious, saying, What may we eat? or, What may we drink? or, What may we put round?Matthew 6:32for all these do the nations seek for, for your heavenly Father doth know that ye have need of all these;Matthew 6:33but seek ye first the reign of God and His righteousness, and all these shall be added to you.Matthew 13:22‘And that sown toward the thorns, this is he who is hearing the word, and the anxiety of this age, and the deceitfulness of the riches, do choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.Matthew 16:26for what is a man profited if he may gain the whole world, but of his life suffer loss? or what shall a man give as an exchange for his life?Matthew 19:16And lo, one having come near, said to him, ‘Good teacher, what good thing shall I do, that I may have life age-during?’Matthew 19:17And he said to him, ‘Why me dost thou call good? no one is good except One—God; but if thou dost will to enter into the life, keep the commands.’Matthew 19:18He saith to him, ‘What kind?’ And Jesus said, ‘Thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not bear false witness,Matthew 19:19honour thy father and mother, and, thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.’Matthew 19:20The young man saith to him, ‘All these did I keep from my youth; what yet do I lack?’Matthew 19:21Jesus said to him, ‘If thou dost will to be perfect, go away, sell what thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven, and come, follow me.’Matthew 19:22And the young man, having heard the word, went away sorrowful, for he had many possessions;Matthew 19:23and Jesus said to his disciples, ‘Verily I say to you, that hardly shall a rich man enter into the reign of the heavens;Matthew 19:24and again I say to you, it is easier for a camel through the eye of a needle to go, than for a rich man to enter into the reign of God.’Matthew 21:12And Jesus entered into the temple of God, and did cast forth all those selling and buying in the temple, and the tables of the money-changers he overturned, and the seats of those selling the doves,Matthew 21:13and he saith to them, ‘It hath been written, My house a house of prayer shall be called, but ye did make it a den of robbers.’Matthew 22:1And Jesus answering, again spake to them in similes, saying,Matthew 22:2‘The reign of the heavens was likened to a man, a king, who made marriage-feasts for his son,Matthew 22:3and he sent forth his servants to call those having been called to the marriage-feasts, and they were not willing to come.Matthew 22:4Again he sent forth other servants, saying, Say to those who have been called: Lo, my dinner I prepared, my oxen and the fatlings have been killed, and all things are ready, come ye to the marriage-feasts;Matthew 22:5and they, having disregarded it, went away, the one to his own field, and the other to his merchandise;Matthew 22:6and the rest, having laid hold on his servants, did insult and slay them.Matthew 22:7‘And the king having heard, was wroth, and having sent forth his soldiers, he destroyed those murderers, and their city he set on fire;Matthew 22:8then saith he to his servants, The marriage-feast indeed is ready, and those called were not worthy,Matthew 22:9be going, then, on to the cross-ways, and as many as ye may find, call ye to the marriage-feasts.Matthew 22:10‘And those servants, having gone forth to the ways, did gather all, as many as they found, both bad and good, and the marriage-feast apartment was filled with those reclining.Matthew 22:11‘And the king having come in to view those reclining, saw there a man not clothed with clothing of the marriage-feast,Matthew 22:12and he saith to him, Comrade, how didst thou come in hither, not having clothing of the marriage-feast? and he was speechless.Matthew 22:13‘Then said the king to the ministrants, Having bound his feet and hands, take him up and cast forth to the outer darkness, there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth;Matthew 22:14for many are called, and few chosen.’Matthew 26:15‘What are ye willing to give me, and I will deliver him up to you?’ and they weighed out to him thirty silverlings,Matthew 26:16and from that time he was seeking a convenient season to deliver him up.Mark 4:19and the anxieties of this age, and the deceitfulness of the riches, and the desires concerning the other things, entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.Mark 7:21for from within, out of the heart of men, the evil reasonings do come forth, adulteries, whoredoms, murders,Mark 7:22thefts, covetous desires, wickedness, deceit, arrogance, an evil eye, evil speaking, pride, foolishness;Mark 7:23all these evils do come forth from within, and they defile the man.’Mark 14:10And Judas the Iscariot, one of the twelve, went away unto the chief priests that he might deliver him up to them,Mark 14:11and having heard, they were glad, and promised to give him money, and he was seeking how, conveniently, he might deliver him up.Luke 7:14and having come near, he touched the bier, and those bearing it stood still, and he said, ‘Young man, to thee I say, Arise;’Luke 12:15And he said unto them, ‘Observe, and beware of the covetousness, because not in the abundance of one’s goods is his life.’Luke 12:16And he spake a simile unto them, saying, ‘Of a certain rich man the field brought forth well;Luke 12:17and he was reasoning within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have not where I shall gather together my fruits?Luke 12:18and he said, This I will do, I will take down my storehouses, and greater ones I will build, and I will gather together there all my products and my good things,Luke 12:19and I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast many good things laid up for many years, be resting, eat, drink, be merry.Luke 12:20‘And God said to him, Unthinking one! this night thy soul they shall require from thee, and what things thou didst prepare—to whom shall they be?Luke 12:21so is he who is treasuring up to himself, and is not rich toward God.’Luke 12:33sell your goods, and give alms, make to yourselves bags that become not old, a treasure unfailing in the heavens, where thief doth not come near, nor moth destroy;