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But select capable men from all the people,men who fear God, trustworthy men who hate dishonest gain,and appoint them as officials over thousands, hundreds, fifties and tens.
Exodus Chapter 18: Verse 21
"You shall not covet your neighbor's house. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his manservant or maidservant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor."
Exodus Chapter 20: Verse 17
"You shall not covet your neighbor's wife. You shall not set your desire on your neighbor's house or land, his manservant or maidservant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor."
Deuteronomy Chapter 5: Verse 21
When I saw in the plunder a beautiful robe from Babylonia, two hundred shekels of silver and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, I coveted them and took them. They are hidden in the ground inside my tent, with the silver underneath."
Joshua Chapter 7: Verse 21
He boasts of the cravings of his heart; he blesses the greedy and reviles the LORD.
Psalms Chapter 10: Verse 3
Turn my heart toward your statutes and not toward selfish gain.
Psalms Chapter 119: Verse 36
All day long he craves for more, but the righteous give without sparing.
Proverbs Chapter 21: Verse 26
A tyrannical ruler lacks judgment, but he who hates ill-gotten gain will enjoy a long life.
Proverbs Chapter 28: Verse 16
Whoever loves money never has money enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with his income. This too is meaningless.
Ecclesiastes Chapter 5: Verse 10
I was enraged by his sinful greed; I punished him, and hid my face in anger, yet he kept on in his willful ways.
Isaiah Chapter 57: Verse 17
"From the least to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; prophets and priests alike, all practice deceit.
Jeremiah Chapter 6: Verse 13
Therefore I will give their wives to other men and their fields to new owners. From the least to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; prophets and priests alike, all practice deceit.
Jeremiah Chapter 8: Verse 10
"But your eyes and your heart are set only on dishonest gain, on shedding innocent blood and on oppression and extortion."
Jeremiah Chapter 22: Verse 17
You who live by many waters and are rich in treasures, your end has come, the time for you to be cut off.
Jeremiah Chapter 51: Verse 13
By your great skill in trading you have increased your wealth, and because of your wealth your heart has grown proud.
Ezekiel Chapter 28: Verse 5
My people come to you, as they usually do, and sit before you to listen to your words, but they do not put them into practice. With their mouths they express devotion, but their hearts are greedy for unjust gain.
Ezekiel Chapter 33: Verse 31
They covet fields and seize them, and houses, and take them. They defraud a man of his home, a fellowman of his inheritance.
Micah Chapter 2: Verse 2
"Woe to him who builds his realm by unjust gain to set his nest on high, to escape the clutches of ruin!
Habakkuk Chapter 2: Verse 9
"Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.
Matthew Chapter 6: Verse 19
For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Matthew Chapter 6: Verse 21
greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly.
Mark Chapter 7: Verse 22
Then he said to them, "Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; a man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions."
Luke Chapter 12: Verse 15
The Pharisees, who loved money, heard all this and were sneering at Jesus.
Luke Chapter 16: Verse 14
I have not coveted anyone's silver or gold or clothing.
Acts Chapter 20: Verse 33
They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips,
Romans Chapter 1: Verse 29
What shall we say, then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed I would not have known what sin was except through the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, "Do not covet."
Romans Chapter 7: Verse 7
The commandments, "Do not commit adultery," "Do not murder," "Do not steal," "Do not covet," and whatever other commandment there may be, are summed up in this one rule: "Love your neighbor as yourself."
Romans Chapter 13: Verse 9
not at all meaning the people of this world who are immoral, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world.
But now I am writing you that you must not associate with anyone who calls himself a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a slanderer, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat.
1 Corinthians Chapter 5: Verses 10 - 11
nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
1 Corinthians Chapter 6: Verse 10
So I thought it necessary to urge the brothers to visit you in advance and finish the arrangements for the generous gift you had promised. Then it will be ready as a generous gift, not as one grudgingly given.Sowing Generously
2 Corinthians Chapter 9: Verse 5
But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God's holy people.
Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk or coarse joking, which are out of place, but rather thanksgiving.
For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure or greedy person,such a man is an idolater,has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
Ephesians Chapter 5: Verses 3 - 5
Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry.
Colossians Chapter 3: Verse 5
You know we never used flattery, nor did we put on a mask to cover up greed,God is our witness.
1 Thessalonians Chapter 2: Verse 5
and constant friction between men of corrupt mind, who have been robbed of the truth and who think that godliness is a means to financial gain.
1 Timothy Chapter 6: Verse 5
People who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge men into ruin and destruction.
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.Paul's Charge to Timothy
1 Timothy Chapter 6: Verses 9 - 10
People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
2 Timothy Chapter 3: Verse 2
Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, "Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you."
Hebrews Chapter 13: Verse 5
In their greed these teachers will exploit you with stories they have made up. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.
2 Peter Chapter 2: Verse 3
With eyes full of adultery, they never stop sinning; they seduce the unstable; they are experts in greed,an accursed brood!
2 Peter Chapter 2: Verse 14
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