Found 24 Results for: Covetousness
For what is the hope of the hypocrite if through covetousness he take by violence, and God deliver not his soul? (Job 27, 8)
Incline my heart into thy testimonies and not to covetousness. (Psalms 118, 36)
And so through the covetousness of them that were in power, Menelaus continued in authority, increasing in malice to the betraying of the citizens. (2 Maccabees 4, 50)
Now they that were with Simon, being led with covetousness, were persuaded For the sake of money by some that were in the towers: and taking seventy thousand didrachmas, let some of them escape. (2 Maccabees 10, 20)
A prince void of prudence shall oppress many by calumny: but he that hateth covetousness, shall prolong his days. (Proverbs 28, 16)
For the iniquity of his covetousness I was angry, and I struck him: I hid my face from thee, and was angry: and he went away wandering in his own heart. (Isaiah 57, 17)
For from the least of them even to the greatest, all are given to covetousness: and from the prophet even to the priest, all are guilty of deceit. (Jeremiah 6, 13)
Therefore I will give their women to strangers, their fields to others for an inheritance: because from the least even to the greatest all follow covetousness: from the prophet even to the priest, all deal deceitfully. (Jeremiah 8, 10)
But thy eyes and thy heart are set upon covetousness, and upon shedding innocent blood, and upon oppression, and running after evil works. (Jeremiah 22, 17)
Behold, I have clapped my hands at thy covetousness, which thou hast exercised and at the blood that hath been shed: In the midst of thee. (Ezekiel 22, 13)
Her princes in the midst of her, are like wolves ravening the prey to shed blood, and to destroy souls, and to run after gains through covetousness. (Ezekiel 22, 27)
And they come to thee, as if a people were coming in, and my people sit before thee: and hear thy words, and do them not: for they turn them into a song of their mouth, and their heart goeth after their covetousness. (Ezekiel 33, 31)