2 Kings 5:20

“ ‘You shall not swear by my name falsely, and profane the name of your God. I am Yahweh.

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

What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.

For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,” and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me.

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

Satan entered into Judas, who was also called Iscariot, who was counted with the twelve.

While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become children of light.” Jesus said these things, and he departed and hid himself from them.

You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

You are all children of light and children of the day. We don’t belong to the night, nor to darkness,

The Lord’s servant must not quarrel, but be gentle toward all, able to teach, patient,

“You and your sons are not to drink wine or strong drink whenever you go into the Tent of Meeting, or you will die. This shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.

They pour out arrogant words. All the evildoers boast.

Know well the state of your flocks, and pay attention to your herds:

Though you mount on high as the eagle, and though your nest is set among the stars, I will bring you down from there,” says Yahweh.

Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve, went away to the chief priests, that he might deliver him to them.

Then Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, one of his disciples, who would betray him, said,

After the piece of bread, then Satan entered into him. Then Jesus said to him, “What you do, do quickly.”

While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name. I have kept those whom you have given me. None of them is lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

and laid them at the apostles’ feet, and distribution was made to each, according as anyone had need.

having a field, sold it and brought the money and laid it at the apostles’ feet.

But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back part of the price of the land?

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn’t have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn’t have known coveting, unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”

Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.

This is a faithful saying: someone who seeks to be an overseer desires a good work.

Servants, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money,

No soldier on duty entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.

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

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.”

But above all things, my brothers, don’t swear— not by heaven, or by the earth, or by any other oath; but let your “yes” be “yes”, and your “no”, “no”, so that you don’t fall into hypocrisy.

“You shall not misuse the name of Yahweh your God, for Yahweh will not hold him guiltless who misuses his name.

Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May Yahweh do so to me, and more also, if anything but death parts you and me.”

Saul said, “God do so and more also; for you shall surely die, Jonathan.”

David’s anger burned hot against the man, and he said to Nathan, “As Yahweh lives, the man who has done this deserves to die!

Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I don’t make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time!”

He said to Gehazi his servant, “Call this Shunammite.” When he had called her, she stood before him.

But he said, “As Yahweh lives, before whom I stand, I will receive none.” He urged him to take it; but he refused.

and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and Yahweh would not pardon.

How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! Yes, to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.

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

Yahweh says: “Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong. Do no violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Don’t shed innocent blood in this place.

but you turned and profaned my name, and every man caused his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom you had let go free at their pleasure, to return. You brought them into subjection, to be to you for servants and for handmaids.’ ”

As for your terror, the pride of your heart has deceived you, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill, though you should make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from there,” says Yahweh.

He went up and down among the lions. He became a young lion. He learned to catch the prey. He devoured men.

“ ‘ “I will make my holy name known among my people Israel. I won’t allow my holy name to be profaned any more. Then the nations will know that I am Yahweh, the Holy One in Israel.

but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

But he turned, and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me, for you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of men.”

Then one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests,

But Jesus said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for God’s Kingdom.”

The Lord said, “Who then is the faithful and wise steward, whom his lord will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the right times?

Jesus said to them, “The children of this age marry, and are given in marriage.

At this, many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.

He said these things, and after that, he said to them, “Our friend, Lazarus, has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may awake him out of sleep.”

When they had gone through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia.

So let a man think of us as Christ’s servants, and stewards of God’s mysteries.

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

Paul and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ; To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers and servants:

Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

This you know, that all who are in Asia turned away from me, of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes.

as do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers.

So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!

but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries;

having eyes full of adultery, and who can’t cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;

“You shall not misuse the name of Yahweh your God; for Yahweh will not hold him guiltless who misuses his name.

The men of Israel were distressed that day; for Saul had adjured the people, saying, “Cursed is the man who eats any food until it is evening, and I am avenged of my enemies.” So none of the people tasted food.

Gehazi went ahead of them, and laid the staff on the child’s face; but there was no voice and no hearing. Therefore he returned to meet him, and told him, “The child has not awakened.”

He called Gehazi, and said, “Call this Shunammite!” So he called her. When she had come in to him, he said, “Take up your son.”

Then he said, “God do so to me, and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat stays on him today.”

from men by your hand, Yahweh, from men of the world, whose portion is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones. Your sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children.

Don’t trust in oppression. Don’t become vain in robbery. If riches increase, don’t set your heart on them.

Better is little, with the fear of Yahweh, than great treasure with trouble.

They were as fed horses roaming at large. Everyone neighed after his neighbor’s wife.

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.

While he was still speaking, behold, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and elders of the people.

Now he spoke of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, for it was he who would betray him, being one of the twelve.

that I will not take a thread nor a sandal strap nor anything that is yours, lest you should say, ‘I have made Abram rich.’

“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.”

For, as Yahweh lives, who saves Israel, though it is in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die.” But there was not a man among all the people who answered him.

The king swore, and said, “As Yahweh lives, who has redeemed my soul out of all adversity,

When the servant of the man of God had risen early, and gone out, behold, an army with horses and chariots was around the city. His servant said to him, “Alas, my master! What shall we do?”

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

The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who answer with discretion.

I said to myself, “Behold, I have obtained for myself great wisdom above all who were before me in Jerusalem. Yes, my heart has had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.”

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

and I brought them into Yahweh’s house, into the room of the sons of Hanan the son of Igdaliah, the man of God, which was by the room of the princes, which was above the room of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the threshold.

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!

Simon the Zealot; and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.

For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor.”

Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw it, he said to himself, “This man, if he were a prophet, would have perceived who and what kind of woman this is who touches him, that she is a sinner.”

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.”

“His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation, wiser than the children of the light.

Jesus answered them, “Didn’t I choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?”

During supper, the devil having already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him,

and kept back part of the price, his wife also being aware of it, then brought a certain part and laid it at the apostles’ feet.

But you, man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness.

for Demas left me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia; and Titus to Dalmatia.

For the overseer must be blameless, as God’s steward, not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;

Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not under compulsion, but voluntarily, not for dishonest gain, but willingly;

You yourselves also know, you Philippians, that in the beginning of the Good News, when I departed from Macedonia, no assembly shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving but you only.