Hosea 12:8
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8 Ephraim has said, “Ah, but (A)I am rich;
I have found wealth for myself;
in all my labors (B)they cannot find in me iniquity or sin.”
Revelation 3:17
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17 (A)For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing, not realizing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, (B)blind, and naked.
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Psalm 62:10
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10 Put no trust in extortion;
(A)set no vain hopes on robbery;
(B)if riches increase, set not your heart on them.
1 Timothy 6:5
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5 and constant friction among people (A)who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, (B)imagining that godliness is a means of gain.
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Zechariah 11:5
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5 (A)Those who buy them slaughter them and go unpunished, and those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be the Lord, (B)I have become rich,’ and their own shepherds have no pity on them.
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Proverbs 30:20
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20 This is the way of an adulteress:
she eats and wipes her mouth
and says, “I have done no wrong.”
Proverbs 30:12
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12 There are those who are (A)clean in their own eyes
but are not washed of their filth.
Psalm 52:7
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7 “See the man who would not make
God his refuge,
but (A)trusted in the abundance of his riches
and sought refuge in his own destruction!”[a]
Footnotes
- Psalm 52:7 Or in his work of destruction
Psalm 49:6
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6 those who (A)trust in their wealth
and boast of the abundance of their riches?
Deuteronomy 8:17
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17 Beware (A)lest you say in your heart, ‘My power and the might of my hand have gotten me this wealth.’
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Luke 16:15
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15 And he said to them, “You are those who (A)justify yourselves before men, but (B)God knows your hearts. For what is exalted among men (C)is an abomination in the sight of God.
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Luke 16:13
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13 (A)No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.”
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Luke 12:19
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19 And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have ample goods laid up (A)for many years; relax, (B)eat, drink, be merry.”’
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Luke 10:29
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29 But he, (A)desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”
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Malachi 3:13
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13 (A)“Your words have been hard against me, says the Lord. (B)But you say, ‘How have we spoken against you?’
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Habakkuk 2:5-6
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5 “Moreover, wine[a] is (A)a traitor,
an arrogant man who is never at rest.[b]
His greed is as wide as Sheol;
like death (B)he has never enough.
(C)He gathers for himself all nations
and collects as his own all peoples.”
Woe to the Chaldeans
6 Shall not all these (D)take up their taunt against him, with scoffing and riddles for him, and say,
(E)“Woe to him (F)who heaps up what is not his own—
for (G)how long?—
and (H)loads himself with pledges!”
Footnotes
- Habakkuk 2:5 Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scroll wealth
- Habakkuk 2:5 The meaning of the Hebrew of these two lines is uncertain
Habakkuk 1:16
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16 (A)Therefore he sacrifices to his net
and makes offerings to his dragnet;
for by them he lives in luxury,[a]
and his food is rich.
Footnotes
- Habakkuk 1:16 Hebrew his portion is fat
Jeremiah 2:23
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23 (A)How can you say, ‘I am not unclean,
I have not gone after the Baals’?
Look at your way (B)in the valley;
know what you have done—
a restless young camel running here and there,
Isaiah 10:13-14
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13 (A)For he says:
“By the strength of my hand I have done it,
and by my wisdom, for I have understanding;
I remove the boundaries of peoples,
and plunder their treasures;
like a bull I bring down those who sit on thrones.
14 My hand has found like a nest
the wealth of the peoples;
and as one gathers eggs that have been forsaken,
so I have gathered all the earth;
and there was none that moved a wing
or opened the mouth or chirped.”
Jeremiah 2:35
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35 you say, ‘I am innocent;
surely his anger has turned from me.’
(A)Behold, I will bring you to judgment
for (B)saying, ‘I have not sinned.’
Malachi 2:17
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The Messenger of the Lord
17 (A)You have wearied the Lord with your words. (B)But you say, “How have we wearied him?” (C)By saying, “Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and he delights in them.” Or by asking, (D)“Where is the God of justice?”
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