Deuteronomy 24:6

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

I gave them my statutes, and showed them my ordinances, which if a man does, he will live in them.

“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.”

“You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.

You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality. You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.

Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the lamp.

has wronged the poor and needy, has taken by robbery, has not restored the pledge, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols, has committed abomination,

hasn’t wronged any, hasn’t taken anything to pledge, hasn’t taken by robbery, but has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;

I will cause the noise of your songs to cease. The sound of your harps won’t be heard any more.

and they lay themselves down beside every altar on clothes taken in pledge; and in the house of their God they drink the wine of those who have been fined.

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.

Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor. If I have wrongfully exacted anything of anyone, I restore four times as much.”

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

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.”

If you take your neighbor’s garment as collateral, you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down,

“You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.

If he is a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge.

‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

When he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.

You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.

They lie all night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.

if I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;

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

Take the garment of one who puts up collateral for a stranger; and hold him in pledge for a wayward woman.

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

He said, “You shall rejoice no more, you oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon. Arise, pass over to Kittim. Even there you will have no rest.”

The mirth of tambourines ceases. The sound of those who rejoice ends. The joy of the harp ceases.

A woman who had a flow of blood for twelve years, who had spent all her living on physicians and could not be healed by any

“You shall not follow a crowd to do evil. You shall not testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice.

“You shall not oppress an alien, for you know the heart of an alien, since you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

You shall therefore keep my statutes and my ordinances, which if a man does, he shall live in them. I am Yahweh.

You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is God’s. The case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.”

He shall not multiply wives to himself, that his heart not turn away. He shall not greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.

When you shall besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an ax against them; for you may eat of them. You shall not cut them down, for is the tree of the field man, that it should be besieged by you?

Yes, you would even cast lots for the fatherless, and make merchandise of your friend.

For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

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

“Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.

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

If you don’t have means to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you?

Take his garment when he puts up collateral for a stranger. Hold it for a wayward woman!

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.

They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excel in deeds of wickedness. They don’t plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don’t defend the rights of the needy.

and has not wronged any, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has taken nothing by robbery, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;

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.

I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.

Others fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.

He warned them, saying, “Take heed: beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod.”

But his face fell at that saying, and he went away sorrowful, for he was one who had great possessions.

We said to my lord, ‘The boy can’t leave his father, for if he should leave his father, his father would die.’

Now therefore when I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us; since his life is bound up in the boy’s life;

You shall not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, nor take a widow’s clothing in pledge;

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 the silver under it.”

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

Better is a little that the righteous has, than the abundance of many wicked.

I will never forget your precepts, for with them, you have revived me.

On the willows in that land, we hung up our harps.

We’ll find all valuable wealth. We’ll fill our houses with plunder.

and the doors shall be shut in the street; when the sound of the grinding is low, and one shall rise up at the voice of a bird, and all the daughters of music shall be brought low;

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.

The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of Yahweh, was taken in their pits; of whom we said, under his shadow we will live among the nations.

if the wicked restore the pledge, give again that which he had taken by robbery, walk in the statutes of life, committing no iniquity; he will surely live. He will not die.

“Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.

“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves.

Jesus said to them, “Take heed and beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.

for they all gave out of their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, gave all that she had to live on.”

She has done what she could. She has anointed my body beforehand for the burying.

They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.

That which fell among the thorns, these are those who have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked with cares, riches, and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity.

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.”

The younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me my share of your property.’ He divided his livelihood between them.

But when this your son came, who has devoured your living with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.’

The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.

But when he heard these things, he became very sad, for he was very rich.

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.”

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

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

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

Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us,

But whoever has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, then closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God’s love remain in him?

The voice of harpists, minstrels, flute players, and trumpeters will be heard no more at all in you. No craftsman, of whatever craft, will be found any more at all in you. The sound of a mill will be heard no more at all in you.

The light of a lamp will shine no more at all in you. The voice of the bridegroom and of the bride will be heard no more at all in you; for your merchants were the princes of the earth; for with your sorcery all the nations were deceived.