Jeremiah 17:11

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.

For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.

An inheritance quickly gained at the beginning, won’t be blessed in the end.

Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment.

“ ‘You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. “ ‘The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.

In his day you shall give him his wages, neither shall the sun go down on it; for he is poor and sets his heart on it; lest he cry against you to Yahweh, and it be sin to you.

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

Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death.

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.

They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

Woe to you lawyers! For you took away the key of knowledge. You didn’t enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in, you hindered.”

For some of these are people who creep into houses and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,

Take no interest from him or profit; but fear your God, that your brother may live among you.

It will be accomplished before his time. His branch will not be green.

For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?

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

Shall they escape by iniquity? In anger cast down the peoples, God.

that you may give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit is dug for the wicked.

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

Don’t eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don’t crave his delicacies:

for riches are not forever, nor does the crown endure to all generations.

He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.

Don’t be too wicked, neither be foolish. Why should you die before your time?

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.

“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”

For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won’t prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won’t delay.

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitened tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.

You foolish ones, didn’t he who made the outside make the inside also?

For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.

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

constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. Withdraw yourself from such.

Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.

“If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor. You shall not charge him interest.

“You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have sight and perverts the words of the righteous.

Vengeance is mine, and recompense, at the time when their foot slides; for the day of their calamity is at hand. Their doom rushes at them.”

Therefore neither the priests of Dagon nor any who come into Dagon’s house step on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod to this day.

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

For evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait for Yahweh shall inherit the land.

This is the destiny of those who are foolish, and of those who approve their sayings.

The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.

He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.

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

Better is a little with righteousness, than great revenues with injustice.

A wicked man receives a bribe in secret, to pervert the ways of justice.

Getting treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.

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

For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

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.

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

While the word was in the king’s mouth, a voice came from the sky, saying, “O king Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is spoken: ‘The kingdom has departed from you.

They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money: yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, “Isn’t Yahweh among us? No disaster will come on us.”

Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short ephah that is accursed?

Woe to the worthless shepherd who leaves the flock! The sword will be on his arm, and on his right eye. His arm will be completely withered, and his right eye will be totally blinded!”

“Enter in by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter in by it.

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and decorate the tombs of the righteous,

“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’

Saul was consenting to his death. A great persecution arose against the assembly which was in Jerusalem in that day. They were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except for the apostles.

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 you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you.

Wealth gained dishonestly dwindles away, but he who gathers by hand makes it grow.

Don’t weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.

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

“Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor’s service without wages, and doesn’t give him his hire;

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

In that day, I will punish all those who leap over the threshold, who fill their master’s house with violence and deceit.

He also said to his disciples, “There was a certain rich man who had a manager. An accusation was made to him that this man was wasting his possessions.

Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.

Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

You shall do to Ai and her king as you did to Jericho and her king, except you shall take its goods and its livestock for yourselves. Set an ambush for the city behind it.”

The king lamented for Abner, and said, “Should Abner die as a fool dies?

There was nothing left that he didn’t devour, therefore his prosperity will not endure.

For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.

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

The fear of Yahweh prolongs days, but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.

Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.

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

When goods increase, those who eat them are increased; and what advantage is there to its owner, except to feast on them with his eyes?

Therefore my heart sounds for Moab like pipes, and my heart sounds like pipes for the men of Kir Heres. Therefore the abundance that he has gotten has perished.

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

“Indeed they don’t know to do right,” says Yahweh, “Who hoard plunder and loot in their palaces.”

You drive the women of my people out from their pleasant houses; from their young children you take away my blessing forever.

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 cause it to go out,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and it will enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who swears falsely by my name; and it will remain in the middle of his house, and will destroy it with its timber and its stones.”

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.

But I tell you that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause will be in danger of the judgment. Whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ will be in danger of the council. Whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.

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.

whose mouths must be stopped: men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain’s sake.

Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten.

In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

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