Acts 24:2

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

They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance, they threaten oppression.

They pour out arrogant words. All the evildoers boast.

Then the Chaldeans spoke to the king in the Syrian language, “O king, live forever! Tell your servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation.”

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;

For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;

I said to the king, “Let the king live forever! Why shouldn’t my face be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers’ tombs, lies waste, and its gates have been consumed with fire?”

For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.

Then Daniel said to the king, “O king, live forever!

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

knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts

“ ‘You shall do no injustice in judgment. You shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness.

All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, “We wish that we had died in the land of Egypt, or that we had died in this wilderness!

Therefore you and all your company have gathered together against Yahweh! What is Aaron that you complain against him?”

Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the earth, and showed respect to the king, and said, “Let my lord king David live forever!”

He hired so that I would be afraid, do so, and sin, and that they might have material for an evil report, that they might reproach me.

Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

For he flatters himself in his own eyes, too much to detect and hate his sin.

Those who trust in their wealth, and boast in the multitude of their riches—

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

arrogant eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

Those who forsake the law praise the wicked; but those who keep the law contend with them.

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

The queen by reason of the words of the king and his lords came into the banquet house. The queen spoke and said, “O king, live forever; don’t let your thoughts trouble you, nor let your face be changed.

Don’t grumble, as some of them also grumbled, and perished by the destroyer.

Do all things without complaining and arguing,

he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, insulting, evil suspicions,

without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good,

and you pay special attention to him who wears the fine clothing and say, “Sit here in a good place;” and you tell the poor man, “Stand there,” or “Sit by my footstool”

They said to you, “In the last time there will be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts.”

“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.”

“ ‘These are they which are unclean to you among the creeping things that creep on the earth: the weasel, the rat, any kind of great lizard,

and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, “I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart,” to destroy the moist with the dry.

I wish that this people were under my hand! Then I would remove Abimelech.” He said to Abimelech, “Increase your army and come out!”

Saul said, I will give her to him, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Therefore Saul said to David, “You shall today be my son-in-law a second time.”

Saul said, “You are blessed by Yahweh; for you have had compassion on me.

Then your servant said, ‘Please let the word of my lord the king bring rest; for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad. May Yahweh, your God, be with you.’ ”

Your servant Joab has done this thing to change the face of the matter. My lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all things that are in the earth.”

Now therefore call to me all the prophets of Baal, all of his worshipers, and all of his priests. Let no one be absent; for I have a great sacrifice to Baal. Whoever is absent, he shall not live.” But Jehu did deceptively, intending to destroy the worshipers of Baal.

Now after the death of Jehoiada, the princes of Judah came, and bowed down to the king. Then the king listened to them.

He who denounces his friends for plunder, Even the eyes of his children will fail.

Please don’t let me respect any man’s person, neither will I give flattering titles to any man.

For I don’t know how to give flattering titles, or else my Maker would soon take me away.

He doesn’t respect the persons of princes, nor respect the rich more than the poor; for they all are the work of his hands.

You will destroy those who speak lies. Yahweh abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.

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

Yahweh examines the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and him who loves violence.

They close up their callous hearts. With their mouth they speak proudly.

Though while he lived he blessed his soul— and men praise you when you do well for yourself—

They conspire and lurk, watching my steps. They are eager to take my life.

How long will you assault a man? Would all of you throw him down, like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?

but murmured in their tents, and didn’t listen to Yahweh’s voice.

For the net is spread in vain in the sight of any bird;

to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife’s tongue.

that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.

With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.

He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets; therefore don’t keep company with him who opens wide his lips.

A lying tongue hates those it hurts; and a flattering mouth works ruin.

A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.

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.

“From on high has he sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them. He has spread a net for my feet. He has turned me back. He has made me desolate and I faint all day long.

They answered Nebuchadnezzar the king, “O king, live for ever!

Then these presidents and local governors assembled together to the king, and said this to him, “King Darius, live forever!

Then these men assembled together, and found Daniel making petition and supplication before his God.

He will corrupt those who do wickedly against the covenant by flatteries; but the people who know their God will be strong, and take action.

“Listen to this, you priests! Listen, house of Israel, and give ear, house of the king! For the judgment is against you; for you have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread on Tabor.

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!

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.”

He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

Jesus, seeing that he became very sad, said, “How hard it is for those who have riches to enter into God’s Kingdom!

When they saw it, they all murmured, saying, “He has gone in to lodge with a man who is a sinner.”

But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. Abraham didn’t do this.

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

backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

For those who are such don’t serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

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.

doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;

Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

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

Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.

For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),

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.”

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.”

But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.

as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,

Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.

These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts—and their mouth speaks proud things—showing respect of persons to gain advantage.