Jeremiah 17:11
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11 Like the (A)partridge that gathers a brood that she did not hatch,
so is (B)he who gets riches but not by justice;
(C)in the midst of his days they will leave him,
(D)and at his end he will be a fool.
Proverbs 28:20
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20 A faithful man will abound with blessings,
but whoever hastens to be rich (A)will not go unpunished.
Proverbs 21:6
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6 (A)The getting of treasures by a lying tongue
is a (B)fleeting (C)vapor and a (D)snare of death.[a]
Footnotes
- Proverbs 21:6 Some Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint, Latin; most Hebrew manuscripts vapor for those who seek death
Proverbs 15:27
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27 Whoever is (A)greedy for unjust gain (B)troubles his own household,
but he who hates (C)bribes will live.
2 Peter 2:14
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14 They have eyes full of adultery,[a] (A)insatiable for sin. They entice unsteady souls. They have hearts (B)trained in greed. (C)Accursed children!
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- 2 Peter 2:14 Or eyes full of an adulteress
Luke 12:20
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20 But God said to him, (A)‘Fool! (B)This night (C)your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, (D)whose will they be?’
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Zephaniah 1:9
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9 On that day I will punish
everyone (A)who leaps over the threshold,
and those who fill their master's[a] house
with violence and fraud.
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- Zephaniah 1:9 Or their Lord's
Habakkuk 2:6-12
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Woe to the Chaldeans
6 Shall not all these (A)take up their taunt against him, with scoffing and riddles for him, and say,
(B)“Woe to him (C)who heaps up what is not his own—
for (D)how long?—
and (E)loads himself with pledges!”
7 (F)Will not your debtors suddenly arise,
and those awake who will make you tremble?
Then you will be spoil for them.
8 (G)Because you have plundered many nations,
all the remnant of the peoples shall plunder you,
(H)for the blood of man and (I)violence to the earth,
to cities and all who dwell in them.
9 (J)“Woe to him who gets evil gain for his house,
(K)to (L)set his nest on high,
to be safe from the reach of harm!
10 You have devised shame for your house
(M)by cutting off many peoples;
you have forfeited your life.
11 For (N)the stone will cry out from the wall,
and the beam from the woodwork respond.
Micah 2:1-2
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Woe to the Oppressors
2 (A)Woe to those who devise wickedness
and work evil (B)on their beds!
When the morning dawns, they perform it,
because it is in the power of their hand.
2 They covet fields and (C)seize them,
and houses, and take them away;
they oppress a man and his house,
a man and his inheritance.
Jeremiah 22:17
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17 But you have eyes and heart
only for your dishonest gain,
(A)for shedding innocent blood,
and for practicing oppression and violence.”
Jeremiah 22:13
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13 (A)“Woe to him who builds his house by (B)unrighteousness,
and his upper rooms by injustice,
(C)who makes his neighbor serve him for nothing
and does not give him his wages,
Ecclesiastes 5:13-16
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13 (A)There is a grievous evil that I have seen under the sun: riches were kept by their owner to his hurt, 14 and those riches were lost in a bad venture. And he is father of a son, but he has nothing in his hand. 15 (B)As he came from his mother's womb he shall go again, naked as he came, and shall take nothing for his toil that he may carry away in his hand. 16 This also is a grievous evil: just as he came, so shall he go, and what (C)gain is there to him who (D)toils for the wind?
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Proverbs 28:22
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- Proverbs 28:22 Hebrew A man whose eye is evil
Proverbs 28:8
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8 Whoever multiplies his wealth (A)by interest and profit[a]
(B)gathers it for him who is (C)generous to the poor.
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- Proverbs 28:8 That is, profit that comes from charging interest to the poor
Proverbs 13:11
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- Proverbs 13:11 Or by fraud
James 5:3-5
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3 Your gold and silver have corroded, and their corrosion will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. (A)You have laid up treasure (B)in the last days. 4 Behold, (C)the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and (D)the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of (E)the Lord of hosts. 5 (F)You have lived on the earth in luxury and (G)in self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in (H)a day of slaughter.
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Titus 1:11
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11 They must be silenced, since (A)they are upsetting whole families by teaching (B)for shameful gain what they ought not to teach.
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Zechariah 7:9-13
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9 “Thus says the Lord of hosts, (A)Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another, 10 (B)do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, (C)or the poor, and (D)let none of you devise evil against another in your heart.” 11 But (E)they refused to pay attention (F)and turned a stubborn shoulder and stopped their ears that they might not hear.[a] 12 (G)They made their hearts diamond-hard (H)lest they should hear the law and the words that the Lord of hosts had sent (I)by his Spirit through (J)the former prophets. (K)Therefore great anger came from the Lord of hosts. 13 (L)“As I[b] called, and they would not hear, (M)so they called, and I would not hear,” says the Lord of hosts,
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- Zechariah 7:11 Hebrew and made their ears too heavy to hear
- Zechariah 7:13 Hebrew he
2 Peter 2:3
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3 And (A)in their greed they will exploit you (B)with false words. (C)Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.
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1 Timothy 6:9
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9 But (A)those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, (B)into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that (C)plunge people into ruin and destruction.
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Matthew 23:13
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13 “But woe (A)to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you (B)shut the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. For you (C)neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in.[a]
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- Matthew 23:13 Some manuscripts add here (or after verse 12) verse 14: Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows' houses and for a pretense you make long prayers; therefore you will receive the greater condemnation
Malachi 3:5
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5 “Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be (A)a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those (B)who oppress the hired worker in his wages, (C)the widow and the fatherless, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.
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Zechariah 5:4
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4 I will send it out, declares the Lord of hosts, and it shall enter the house of the thief, and the house of (A)him who swears falsely by my name. And (B)it shall remain in his house and (C)consume it, both timber and stones.”
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Micah 7:3
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3 (A)Their hands are on what is evil, to do it well;
(B)the prince and (C)the judge ask for a bribe,
and the great man utters the evil desire of his soul;
thus they weave it together.
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