Luke 12:15
Greek Text— Luke 12:15He 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.”
Morphological data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
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No man will be able to stand before you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not fail you nor forsake you.
Yahweh himself is who goes before you. He will be with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you. Don’t be afraid. Don’t be discouraged.”
Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or scared of them; for Yahweh your God himself is who goes with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you.”
For Yahweh will not forsake his people for his great name’s sake, because it has pleased Yahweh to make you a people for himself.
David said to Solomon his son, “Be strong and courageous, and do it. Don’t be afraid, nor be dismayed; for Yahweh God, even my God, is with you. He will not fail you, nor forsake you, until all the work for the service of Yahweh’s house is finished.
“Don’t lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;
Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you, until I have done that which I have spoken of to you.”
Therefore don’t be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day’s own evil is sufficient.
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.
I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.
Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,
whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.
No soldier on duty entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.
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.”
The poor and needy seek water, and there is none. Their tongue fails for thirst. I, Yahweh, will answer them. I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
for both prophet and priest are profane. Yes, in my house I have found their wickedness,” says Yahweh.
Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.
These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts—and their mouth speaks proud things—showing respect of persons to gain advantage.
For Yahweh loves justice, and doesn’t forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.
Turn my heart toward your statutes, not toward selfish gain.
For her good profit is better than getting silver, and her return is better than fine gold.
Woe to those who join house to house, who lay field to field, until there is no room, and you are made to dwell alone in the middle of the land!
Therefore I will give their wives to others and their fields to those who will possess them. For everyone from the least even to the greatest is given to covetousness; from the prophet even to the priest everyone deals falsely.
“Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like treasure hidden in the field, which a man found, and hid. In his joy, he goes and sells all that he has, and buys that field.
He said to all, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.
For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
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 this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,
Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be arrogant, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;
“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.”
They pour out arrogant words. All the evildoers boast.
My fruit is better than gold, yes, than fine gold, my yield than choice silver.
Better is a little with righteousness, than great revenues with injustice.
Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.
They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don’t do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.
Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,
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.
The people stood watching. The rulers with them also scoffed at him, saying, “He saved others. Let him save himself, if this is the Christ of God, his chosen one!”
Also, do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
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.
Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.
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 they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.
Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.
For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),
But godliness with contentment is great gain.
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.”
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.
But your eyes and your heart are only for your covetousness, for shedding innocent blood, for oppression, and for doing violence.”
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.
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.”
Isn’t it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?’
Other fell amid the thorns, and the thorns grew with it, and choked it.
that again when I come my God would humble me before you, and I would mourn for many of those who have sinned before now, and not repented of the uncleanness, sexual immorality, and lustfulness which they committed.
envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.
They, having become callous, gave themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed,
He shall not multiply wives to himself, that his heart not turn away. He shall not greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.
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.
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.
Notwithstanding they didn’t listen to Moses, but some of them left of it until the morning, so it bred worms and became foul; and Moses was angry with them.
“ ‘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,
Command the people, saying, ‘You are to pass through the border of your brothers, the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir; and they will be afraid of you. Therefore be careful.
Be careful, lest you forget the covenant of Yahweh your God, which he made with you, and make yourselves a carved image in the form of anything which Yahweh your God has forbidden you.
“You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. Neither shall you desire your neighbor’s house, his field, or his male servant, or his female servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.”
No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone as a pledge, for he takes a life 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.”
Shimei arose, saddled his donkey, and went to Gath to Achish, to seek his slaves; and Shimei went, and brought his slaves from Gath.
Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.
“If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, ‘You are my confidence;’
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.
We’ll find all valuable wealth. We’ll fill our houses with plunder.
A tyrannical ruler lacks judgment. One who hates ill-gotten gain will have long days.
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.
“For from their least even to their greatest, everyone is given to covetousness. From the prophet even to the priest, everyone deals falsely.
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.
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!
“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.
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.
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.
“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.
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.”
nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortionists, will inherit God’s Kingdom.
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,
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;