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Covetousness

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1 Timothy 6:9and those wishing to be rich, do fall into temptation and a snare, and many desires, foolish and hurtful, that sink men into ruin and destruction,1 Timothy 6:10for a root of all the evils is the love of money, which certain longing for did go astray from the faith, and themselves did pierce through with many sorrows;1 Timothy 6:11and thou, O man of God, these things flee, and pursue righteousness, piety, faith, love, endurance, meekness;1 Timothy 6:17Those rich in the present age charge thou not to be high-minded, nor to hope in the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, who is giving to us all things richly for enjoyment;—2 Timothy 3:2for men shall be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, evil-speakers, to parents disobedient, unthankful, unkind,2 Timothy 4:10for Demas forsook me, having loved the present age, and went on to Thessalonica, Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia,Titus 1:7for it behoveth the overseer to be blameless, as God’s steward, not self-pleased, nor irascible, not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre;Titus 1:11whose mouth it behoveth to stop, who whole households do overturn, teaching what things it behoveth not, for filthy lucre’s sake.Hebrews 13:5Without covetousness the behaviour, being content with the things present, for He hath said, ‘No, I will not leave, no, nor forsake thee,’James 4:2ye desire, and ye have not; ye murder, and are zealous, and are not able to attain; ye fight and war, and ye have not, because of your not asking;James 4:13Go, now, ye who are saying, ‘To-day and to-morrow we will go on to such a city, and will pass there one year, and traffic, and make gain;’James 4:14who do not know the thing of the morrow; for what is your life? for it is a vapour that is appearing for a little, and then is vanishing;James 4:15instead of your saying, ‘If the Lord may will, we shall live, and do this or that;’James 4:16and now ye glory in your pride; all such glorying is evil;James 4:17to him, then, knowing to do good, and not doing, sin it is to him.1 Peter 5:2feed the flock of God that is among you, overseeing not constrainedly, but willingly, neither for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind,2 Peter 2:3and in covetousness, with moulded words, of you they shall make merchandise, whose judgment of old is not idle, and their destruction doth not slumber.2 Peter 2:14having eyes full of adultery, and unable to cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having an heart exercised in covetousnesses, children of a curse,2 Peter 2:15having forsaken a right way, they did go astray, having followed in the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who a reward of unrighteousness did love,2 Peter 2:16and had a rebuke of his own iniquity—a dumb ass, in man’s voice having spoken, did forbid the madness of the prophet.1 John 2:15Love not ye the world, nor the things in the world; if any one doth love the world, the love of the Father is not in him,1 John 2:16because all that is in the world—the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the ostentation of the life—is not of the Father, but of the world,1 John 2:17and the world doth pass away, and the desire of it, and he who is doing the will of God, he doth remain—to the age.Jude 1:11woe to them! because in the way of Cain they did go on, and to the deceit of Balaam for reward they did rush, and in the gainsaying of Korah they did perish.