Covetousness

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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

• Habakkuk 2:9 OT

  Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!

• Job 20:15 OT

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

• 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 22:17-19 OT

  But your eyes and your heart are only for your covetousness, for shedding innocent blood, for oppression, and for doing violence.” Therefore Yahweh says concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah: “They won’t lament for him,…

• Micah 2:3 OT

  Therefore Yahweh says: “Behold, I am planning against these people a disaster, from which you will not remove your necks, neither will you walk haughtily; for it is an evil time.

• 1 Corinthians 6:10 NT

  nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortionists, will inherit God’s Kingdom.

• Luke 12:15 NT

  He said to them, “Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.”

• 1 Corinthians 5:11 NT

  But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortionist. Don’t even eat with such a person.

• Psalms 119:36 OT

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

• Proverbs 28:16 OT

  A tyrannical ruler lacks judgment. One who hates ill-gotten gain will have long days.

• 2 Timothy 3:2 NT

  For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

• 2 Peter 2:1-3 NT

  But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction. Many will follow…

• Genesis 31:41 OT

  These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.

• 1 Samuel 2:12-14 OT

  Now the sons of Eli were wicked men. They didn’t know Yahweh. The custom of the priests with the people was that when anyone offered a sacrifice, the priest’s servant came while the meat was boiling, with a fork of three teeth in his hand;…

• 1 Samuel 8:3 OT

  His sons didn’t walk in his ways, but turned away after dishonest gain, took bribes, and perverted justice.

• 1 Samuel 15:9 OT

  But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, of the cattle, and of the fat calves, and the lambs, and all that was good, and were not willing to utterly destroy them; but everything that was vile and refuse, that they…

• 1 Samuel 15:19 OT

  Why then didn’t you obey Yahweh’s voice, but took the plunder, and did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight?”

• 1 Kings 21:2-4 OT

  Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying, “Give me your vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near my house; and I will give you for it a better vineyard than it. Or, if it seems good to you, I will give you its worth in…

• 2 Kings 5:20-24 OT

  But Gehazi the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, “Behold, my master has spared this Naaman the Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought. As Yahweh lives, I will run after him, and take something from him.” So…

• 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.

• 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 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.

• 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 51:13 OT

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