Covetousness

Nave's Topical Bible

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

• Ecclesiastes 5:11 OT

  When goods increase, those who eat them are increased; and what advantage is there to its owner, except to feast on them with his eyes?

• Isaiah 1:23 OT

  Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes and follows after rewards. They don’t defend the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

• Isaiah 5:8 OT

  Woe to those who join house to house, who lay field to field, until there is no room, and you are made to dwell alone in the middle of the land!

• Isaiah 56:11 OT

  Yes, the dogs are greedy. They can never have enough. They are shepherds who can’t understand. They have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.

• Isaiah 57:17 OT

  I was angry because of the iniquity of his covetousness and struck him. I hid myself and was angry; and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.

• Jeremiah 6:13 OT

  “For from their least even to their greatest, everyone is given to covetousness. From the prophet even to the priest, everyone deals falsely.

• Jeremiah 8:10 OT

  Therefore I will give their wives to others and their fields to those who will possess them. For everyone from the least even to the greatest is given to covetousness; from the prophet even to the priest everyone deals falsely.

• Jeremiah 17:11 OT

  As the partridge that sits on eggs which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right. In the middle of his days, they will leave him. At his end, he will be a fool.

• Jeremiah 22:17 OT

  But your eyes and your heart are only for your covetousness, for shedding innocent blood, for oppression, and for doing violence.”

• Jeremiah 51:13 OT

  You who dwell on many waters, abundant in treasures, your end has come, the measure of your covetousness.

• Ezekiel 22:12 OT

  In you have they taken bribes to shed blood. You have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me,” says the Lord Yahweh.

• Ezekiel 22:13 OT

  “ ‘ “Behold, therefore I have struck my hand at your dishonest gain which you have made, and at your blood which has been within you.

• Ezekiel 33:31 OT

  They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don’t do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.

• Hosea 4:18 OT

  Their drink has become sour. They play the prostitute continually. Her rulers dearly love their shameful way.

• Hosea 10:1 OT

  Israel is a luxuriant vine that produces his fruit. According to the abundance of his fruit he has multiplied his altars. As their land has prospered, they have adorned their sacred stones.

• Micah 2:2 OT

  They covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

• Micah 3:11 OT

  Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money: yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, “Isn’t Yahweh among us? No disaster will come on us.”

• Micah 7:3 OT

  Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe; and the powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.

• Habakkuk 1:15 OT

  He takes up all of them with the hook. He catches them in his net, and gathers them in his dragnet. Therefore he rejoices and is glad.

• Habakkuk 1:16 OT

  Therefore he sacrifices to his net, and burns incense to his dragnet, because by them his life is luxurious, and his food is good.

• Habakkuk 2:5-9 OT

  Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous. An arrogant man who doesn’t stay at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol, and he is like death, and can’t be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations, and heaps to himself all peoples. Won’t all…

• Haggai 1:6 OT

  You have sown much, and bring in little. You eat, but you don’t have enough. You drink, but you aren’t filled with drink. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm, and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes in…

• Malachi 1:10 OT

  “Oh that there were one among you who would shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you,” says Yahweh of Armies, “neither will I accept an offering at your hand.

• Matthew 6:19-21 NT

  “Don’t lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, and where thieves don’t break…