Proverbs 1:13

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

“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.”

In the house of the righteous is much treasure, but the income of the wicked brings trouble.

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

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.

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.”

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.

Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and robbery. The prey doesn’t depart.

Then the cloud covered the Tent of Meeting, and Yahweh’s glory filled the tabernacle.

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.

“Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me. He has crushed me. He has made me an empty vessel. He has, like a monster, swallowed me up. He has filled his mouth with my delicacies. He has cast me out.

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.

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve. Afterward they will come out with great wealth;

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.”

He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill to make them sit with princes and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh’s. He has set the world on them.

Shimei arose, saddled his donkey, and went to Gath to Achish, to seek his slaves; and Shimei went, and brought his slaves from Gath.

Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying, “Give me your vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near my house; and I will give you for it a better vineyard than it. Or, if it seems good to you, I will give you its worth in money.”

But Gehazi the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, “Behold, my master has spared this Naaman the Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought. As Yahweh lives, I will run after him, and take something from him.”

and said to the judges, “Consider what you do, for you don’t judge for man, but for Yahweh; and he is with you in the judgment.

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;’

if I have eaten its fruits without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life,

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

His ways are prosperous at all times. He is arrogant, and your laws are far from his sight. As for all his adversaries, he sneers at them.

You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forever more.

He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

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

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

but if he is found, he shall restore seven times. He shall give all the wealth of his house.

With me are riches, honor, enduring wealth, and prosperity.

that I may give wealth to those who love me. I fill their treasuries.

by knowledge the rooms are filled with all rare and beautiful treasure.

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

There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.

It will happen in that day that the nations will seek the root of Jesse, who stands as a banner of the peoples; and his resting place will be glorious.

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.

Yahweh’s glory mounted up from the cherub, and stood over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of Yahweh’s glory.

In you have they taken bribes to shed blood. You have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me,” says the Lord Yahweh.

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.

He will be our peace when Assyria invades our land, and when he marches through our fortresses, then we will raise against him seven shepherds, and eight leaders of men.

The lion tore in pieces enough for his cubs, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his caves with the kill, and his dens with prey.

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!

Go up to the mountain, bring wood, and build the house. I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified,” says Yahweh.

‘Who is left among you who saw this house in its former glory? How do you see it now? Isn’t it in your eyes as nothing?

‘The latter glory of this house will be greater than the former,’ says Yahweh of Armies; ‘and in this place I will give peace,’ says Yahweh of Armies.”

“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.”

These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

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

“Glory to God in the highest, on earth peace, good will toward men.”

“But woe to you who are rich! For you have received your consolation.

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 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.

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, I give to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

The word which he sent to the children of Israel, preaching good news of peace by Jesus Christ—he is Lord of all—

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.”

and if children, then heirs: heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.

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.

Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times in all ways. The Lord be with you all.

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

Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.

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

For you both had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens.

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,

My brothers, don’t hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory with partiality.

to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn’t fade away, reserved in Heaven for you,

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

He who overcomes, I will give him these things. I will be his God, and he will be my son.

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