Deuteronomy 8:12
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12 When you have eaten your fill and have built fine houses and live in them
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Proverbs 30:9
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9 lest I be full and deny you
and say, “Who is the Lord?”
or I be poor and steal
and profane the name of my God.(A)
Hosea 13:5-6
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Deuteronomy 32:15
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15 Jacob ate his fill;[a]
Jeshurun grew fat and kicked.
You grew fat, bloated, and gorged!
He abandoned God who made him
and scoffed at the Rock of his salvation.(A)
Footnotes
- 32.15 Q mss Sam Gk: MT lacks Jacob ate his fill
Deuteronomy 28:47
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47 “Because you did not serve the Lord your God joyfully and with gladness of heart for the abundance of everything,(A)
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Luke 17:28
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28 Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot, they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building,(A)
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Haggai 1:4
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4 “Is it a time for you yourselves to live in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?(A)
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Amos 5:11
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11 Therefore because you trample on the poor
and take from them levies of grain,
you have built houses of hewn stone,
but you shall not live in them;
you have planted pleasant vineyards,
but you shall not drink their wine.(A)
Ezekiel 11:3
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3 they say, ‘The time is not near to build houses; this city is the pot, and we are the meat.’(A)
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Jeremiah 22:14-15
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14 who says, “I will build myself a spacious house
with large upper rooms,”
and who cuts out windows[a] for it,
paneling it with cedar
and painting it with vermilion.(A)
15 Are you a king
because you compete in cedar?
Did not your father eat and drink
and do justice and righteousness?
Then it was well with him.(B)
Footnotes
- 22.14 Gk Vg Syr Tg: MT my windows
Ecclesiastes 2:4
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4 I made great works; I built houses and planted vineyards for myself;(A)
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Deuteronomy 31:20
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20 For when I have brought them into the land flowing with milk and honey, which I promised on oath to their ancestors, and they have eaten their fill and grown fat, they will turn to other gods and serve them, despising me and breaking my covenant.(A)
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