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Covetousness
Colossians 3:5 ESV / 127 helpful votes
Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
Luke 12:15 ESV / 107 helpful votes
And he said to them, “Take care, and be on your guard against all covetousness, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”
Ephesians 5:5 ESV / 98 helpful votes
For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.
Hebrews 13:5 ESV / 97 helpful votes
Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”
Exodus 20:17 ESV / 87 helpful votes
“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.”
Luke 12:15-21 ESV / 70 helpful votes
And he said to them, “Take care, and be on your guard against all covetousness, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.” And he told them a parable, saying, “The land of a rich man produced plentifully, and he thought to himself, ‘What shall I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?’ And he said, ‘I will do this: I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.’ …
1 Timothy 6:10 ESV / 65 helpful votes
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.
1 John 2:15-17 ESV / 61 helpful votes
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions—is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.
James 4:2 ESV / 50 helpful votes
You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask.
Ephesians 5:3 ESV / 41 helpful votes
But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints.
Matthew 6:24 ESV / 38 helpful votes
“No one can serve two masters, for 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 God and money.
Romans 13:9 ESV / 35 helpful votes
For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
Acts 20:35 ESV / 32 helpful votes
In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
Matthew 16:26 ESV / 29 helpful votes
For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul?
1 Corinthians 5:11 ESV / 27 helpful votes
But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler—not even to eat with such a one.
Jeremiah 6:13 ESV / 22 helpful votes
“For from the least to the greatest of them, everyone is greedy for unjust gain; and from prophet to priest, everyone deals falsely.
Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 21 helpful votes
Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
Mark 4:19 ESV / 21 helpful votes
But the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it proves unfruitful.
Matthew 7:12 ESV / 21 helpful votes
“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.
Ezekiel 33:31 ESV / 21 helpful votes
And they come to you as people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear what you say but they will not do it; for with lustful talk in their mouths they act; their heart is set on their gain.
1 Timothy 6:17 ESV / 19 helpful votes
As for the rich in this present age, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy.
Luke 12:34 ESV / 19 helpful votes
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
2 Peter 2:3 ESV / 18 helpful votes
And in their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.
Colossians 3:2 ESV / 18 helpful votes
Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.
Exodus 18:21 ESV / 18 helpful votes
Moreover, look for able men from all the people, men who fear God, who are trustworthy and hate a bribe, and place such men over the people as chiefs of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens.
Titus 1:11 ESV / 17 helpful votes
They must be silenced, since they are upsetting whole families by teaching for shameful gain what they ought not to teach.
Proverbs 15:27 ESV / 17 helpful votes
Whoever is greedy for unjust gain troubles his own household, but he who hates bribes will live.
Psalm 119:36 ESV / 17 helpful votes
Incline my heart to your testimonies, and not to selfish gain!
Micah 2:2 ESV / 16 helpful votes
They covet fields and seize them, and houses, and take them away; they oppress a man and his house, a man and his inheritance.
Ezekiel 22:12 ESV / 16 helpful votes
In you they take bribes to shed blood; you take interest and profit and make gain of your neighbors by extortion; but me you have forgotten, declares the Lord God.
Proverbs 28:16 ESV / 16 helpful votes
A ruler who lacks understanding is a cruel oppressor, but he who hates unjust gain will prolong his days.
Deuteronomy 5:21 ESV / 16 helpful votes
“‘And you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. And you shall not 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.’
1 Timothy 6:5-11 ESV / 15 helpful votes
And constant friction among people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain. Now there is great gain in godliness with contentment, for we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world. But if we have food and clothing, with these we will be content. But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. …
Romans 7:7 ESV / 15 helpful votes
What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.”
Luke 12:33 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Sell your possessions, and give to the needy. Provide yourselves with moneybags that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.
Mark 7:22 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness.
Mark 7:20-23 ESV / 15 helpful votes
And he said, “What comes out of a person is what defiles him. For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”
Jeremiah 51:13 ESV / 15 helpful votes
O you who dwell by many waters, rich in treasures, your end has come; the thread of your life is cut.
Jeremiah 22:17 ESV / 15 helpful votes
But you have eyes and heart only for your dishonest gain, for shedding innocent blood, and for practicing oppression and violence.”
Isaiah 57:17 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Because of the iniquity of his unjust gain I was angry, I struck him; I hid my face and was angry, but he went on backsliding in the way of his own heart.
Isaiah 5:8 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Woe to those who join house to house, who add field to field, until there is no more room, and you are made to dwell alone in the midst of the land.
Ecclesiastes 5:10 ESV / 15 helpful votes
He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves wealth with his income; this also is vanity.
Matthew 13:22 ESV / 14 helpful votes
As for what was sown among thorns, this is the one who hears the word, but the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and it proves unfruitful.
Habakkuk 2:9 ESV / 14 helpful votes
“Woe to him who gets evil gain for his house, to set his nest on high, to be safe from the reach of harm!
James 3:16-5:12 ESV / 13 helpful votes
For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice. But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere. And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace. What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. …
2 Timothy 3:2 ESV / 13 helpful votes
For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
Ecclesiastes 4:8 ESV / 13 helpful votes
One person who has no other, either son or brother, yet there is no end to all his toil, and his eyes are never satisfied with riches, so that he never asks, “For whom am I toiling and depriving myself of pleasure?” This also is vanity and an unhappy business.
Proverbs 30:8 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Remove far from me falsehood and lying; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the food that is needful for me,
Joshua 7:21 ESV / 13 helpful votes
When I saw among the spoil a beautiful cloak from Shinar, and 200 shekels of silver, and a bar of gold weighing 50 shekels, then I coveted them and took them. And see, they are hidden in the earth inside my tent, with the silver underneath.”
1 Thessalonians 2:5 ESV / 12 helpful votes
For we never came with words of flattery, as you know, nor with a pretext for greed—God is witness.
Romans 1:29 ESV / 12 helpful votes
They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips,
Luke 16:14 ESV / 12 helpful votes
The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all these things, and they ridiculed him.
Jeremiah 17:11 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Like the partridge that gathers a brood that she did not hatch, so is he who gets riches but not by justice; in the midst of his days they will leave him, and at his end he will be a fool.
Proverbs 11:26 ESV / 12 helpful votes
The people curse him who holds back grain, but a blessing is on the head of him who sells it.
Psalm 10:3 ESV / 12 helpful votes
For the wicked boasts of the desires of his soul, and the one greedy for gain curses and renounces the Lord.
Micah 3:11 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Its heads give judgment for a bribe; its priests teach for a price; its prophets practice divination for money; yet they lean on the Lord and say, “Is not the Lord in the midst of us? No disaster shall come upon us.”
Proverbs 30:9 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Lest I be full and deny you and say, “Who is the Lord?” or lest I be poor and steal and profane the name of my God.
1 Samuel 15:9 ESV / 11 helpful votes
But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep and of the oxen and of the fattened calves and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them. All that was despised and worthless they devoted to destruction.
2 Peter 2:15 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Forsaking the right way, they have gone astray. They have followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved gain from wrongdoing,
1 Timothy 6:9 ESV / 10 helpful votes
But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.
Colossians 3:9 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices
1 Corinthians 12:31 ESV / 10 helpful votes
But earnestly desire the higher gifts. And I will show you a still more excellent way.
1 Corinthians 7:2 ESV / 10 helpful votes
But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.
1 Corinthians 6:10 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
John 6:26 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you are seeking me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate your fill of the loaves.
Luke 16:13 ESV / 10 helpful votes
No servant can serve two masters, for 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 God and money.”
Luke 16:2 ESV / 10 helpful votes
And he called him and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Turn in the account of your management, for you can no longer be manager.’
Luke 14:16-24 ESV / 10 helpful votes
But he said to him, “A man once gave a great banquet and invited many. And at the time for the banquet he sent his servant to say to those who had been invited, ‘Come, for everything is now ready.’ But they all alike began to make excuses. The first said to him, ‘I have bought a field, and I must go out and see it. Please have me excused.’ And another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to examine them. Please have me excused.’ And another said, ‘I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.’ …
Matthew 6:33 ESV / 10 helpful votes
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
Matthew 6:25 ESV / 10 helpful votes
“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
Habakkuk 2:5-9 ESV / 10 helpful votes
“Moreover, wine is a traitor, an arrogant man who is never at rest. His greed is as wide as Sheol; like death he has never enough. He gathers for himself all nations and collects as his own all peoples.” Shall not all these take up their taunt against him, with scoffing and riddles for him, and say, “Woe to him who heaps up what is not his own— for how long?— and loads himself with pledges!” Will not your debtors suddenly arise, and those awake who will make you tremble? Then you will be spoil for them. Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples shall plunder you, for the blood of man and violence to the earth, to cities and all who dwell in them. “Woe to him who gets evil gain for his house, to set his nest on high, to be safe from the reach of harm!
Hosea 4:18 ESV / 10 helpful votes
When their drink is gone, they give themselves to whoring; their rulers dearly love shame.
Ezekiel 22:13 ESV / 10 helpful votes
“Behold, I strike my hand at the dishonest gain that you have made, and at the blood that has been in your midst.
Jeremiah 8:10 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Therefore I will give their wives to others and their fields to conquerors, because from the least to the greatest everyone is greedy for unjust gain; from prophet to priest, everyone deals falsely.
Isaiah 1:23 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves. Everyone loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not bring justice to the fatherless, and the widow’s cause does not come to them.
Ecclesiastes 5:11 ESV / 10 helpful votes
When goods increase, they increase who eat them, and what advantage has their owner but to see them with his eyes?
Proverbs 21:26 ESV / 10 helpful votes
All day long he craves and craves, but the righteous gives and does not hold back.
Proverbs 11:24 ESV / 10 helpful votes
One gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want.
Joshua 7:20-21 ESV / 10 helpful votes
And Achan answered Joshua, “Truly I have sinned against the Lord God of Israel, and this is what I did: when I saw among the spoil a beautiful cloak from Shinar, and 200 shekels of silver, and a bar of gold weighing 50 shekels, then I coveted them and took them. And see, they are hidden in the earth inside my tent, with the silver underneath.”
Jude 1:11 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Woe to them! For they walked in the way of Cain and abandoned themselves for the sake of gain to Balaam’s error and perished in Korah’s rebellion.
Romans 14:1 ESV / 9 helpful votes
As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions.
Luke 18:9-14 ESV / 9 helpful votes
He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and treated others with contempt: “Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.’ But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’ …
Matthew 19:23 ESV / 9 helpful votes
And Jesus said to his disciples, “Truly, I say to you, only with difficulty will a rich person enter the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 6:19-21 ESV / 9 helpful votes
“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
2 Peter 2:14 ESV / 8 helpful votes
They have eyes full of adultery, insatiable for sin. They entice unsteady souls. They have hearts trained in greed. Accursed children!
Colossians 3:6 ESV / 8 helpful votes
On account of these the wrath of God is coming.
Philippians 3:18 ESV / 8 helpful votes
For many, of whom I have often told you and now tell you even with tears, walk as enemies of the cross of Christ.
1 Corinthians 6:9-11 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
Romans 13:8-10 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
Luke 18:25 ESV / 8 helpful votes
For it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.”
Mark 7:21-23 ESV / 8 helpful votes
For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”
Matthew 19:24 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.”
Matthew 6:20 ESV / 8 helpful votes
But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal.
Matthew 6:19 ESV / 8 helpful votes
“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal,
Habakkuk 1:15 ESV / 8 helpful votes
He brings all of them up with a hook; he drags them out with his net; he gathers them in his dragnet; so he rejoices and is glad.
Micah 7:3 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Their hands are on what is evil, to do it well; the prince and the judge ask for a bribe, and the great man utters the evil desire of his soul; thus they weave it together.
Isaiah 56:11 ESV / 8 helpful votes
The dogs have a mighty appetite; they never have enough. But they are shepherds who have no understanding; they have all turned to their own way, each to his own gain, one and all.
Hebrews 11:6 ESV / 7 helpful votes
And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
Ecclesiastes 1:8 ESV / 7 helpful votes
All things are full of weariness; a man cannot utter it; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
Titus 1:7 ESV / 6 helpful votes
For an overseer, as God’s steward, must be above reproach. He must not be arrogant or quick-tempered or a drunkard or violent or greedy for gain,
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