Covetousness

Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• Exodus 18:21 OT

  Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men which fear God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

• Exodus 20:17 OT

  “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.”

• Deuteronomy 5:21 OT

  “You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. Neither shall you 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.”

• Nehemiah 5:7 OT

  Then I consulted with myself, and contended with the nobles and the rulers, and said to them, “You exact usury, everyone of his brother.” I held a great assembly against them.

• Job 20:15 OT

  He has swallowed down riches, and he will vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly.

• Job 31:24 OT

  “If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, ‘You are my confidence;’

• Job 31:25 OT

  If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;

• Job 31:28 OT

  this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges; for I should have denied the God who is above.

• Psalms 10:3 OT

  For the wicked boasts of his heart’s cravings. He blesses the greedy and condemns Yahweh.

• Psalms 119:36 OT

  Turn my heart toward your statutes, not toward selfish gain.

• Proverbs 1:19 OT

  So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain. It takes away the life of its owners.

• Proverbs 11:24 OT

  There is one who scatters, and increases yet more. There is one who withholds more than is appropriate, but gains poverty.

• Proverbs 11:26 OT

  People curse someone who withholds grain, but blessing will be on the head of him who sells it.

• Proverbs 15:27 OT

  He who is greedy for gain troubles his own house, but he who hates bribes will live.

• Proverbs 21:25 OT

  The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor.

• Proverbs 21:26 OT

  There are those who covet greedily all day long; but the righteous give and don’t withhold.

• Proverbs 22:16 OT

  Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.

• Proverbs 23:4 OT

  Don’t weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.

• Proverbs 23:5 OT

  Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.

• Proverbs 30:8 OT

  Remove far from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me with the food that is needful for me,

• Proverbs 30:9 OT

  lest I be full, deny you, and say, ‘Who is Yahweh?’ or lest I be poor, and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God.

• Ecclesiastes 1:2-8 OT

  “Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher; “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.” What does man gain from all his labor in which he labors under the sun? One generation goes, and another generation comes; but the earth remains forever. The sun…

• Ecclesiastes 4:8 OT

  There is one who is alone, and he has neither son nor brother. There is no end to all of his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with wealth. “For whom then, do I labor and deprive my soul of enjoyment?” This also is vanity. Yes, it is a…

• Ecclesiastes 5:10 OT

  He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he who loves abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.