Covetousness

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• 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.

• Habakkuk 2:5 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.

• Psalms 39:6 OT

  “Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.

• 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…

• Ephesians 5:3 NT

  But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;

• Hebrews 13:5 NT

  Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

• 1 Timothy 3:3 NT

  not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;

• Proverbs 28:20 OT

  A faithful man is rich with blessings; but one who is eager to be rich will not go unpunished.

• 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.

• 1 Timothy 6:9 NT

  But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation, a snare, and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.

• 2 Kings 5:22-25 OT

  He said, “All is well. My master has sent me, saying, ‘Behold, even now two young men of the sons of the prophets have come to me from the hill country of Ephraim. Please give them a talent of silver and two changes of clothing.’ ” Naaman…

• Proverbs 1:18 OT

  but these lay in wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.

• Proverbs 1:19 OT

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

• 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.

• Joshua 7:21 OT

  When I saw among the plunder a beautiful Babylonian robe, two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, then I coveted them and took them. Behold, they are hidden in the ground in the middle of my tent, with…

• Proverbs 28:22 OT

  A stingy man hurries after riches, and doesn’t know that poverty waits for him.

• Proverbs 15:27 OT

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

• Psalms 10:3 OT

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

• 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.”

• Romans 1:29 NT

  being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,

• Proverbs 21:26 OT

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

• 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.

• Acts 20:33 NT

  I coveted no one’s silver, gold, or clothing.

• 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!