Psalm 10:3
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3 For the wicked (A)boasts of the desires of his soul,
and the one greedy for gain (B)curses[a] and (C)renounces the Lord.
Footnotes
- Psalm 10:3 Or and he blesses the one greedy for gain
Psalm 94:4
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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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Zechariah 11:5-8
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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. 6 For (C)I will no longer have pity on the inhabitants of this land, declares the Lord. Behold, I will cause each of them to fall into the hand of his neighbor, and each into the hand of his king, and they shall crush the land, and I will deliver none from their hand.”
7 (D)So I became the shepherd of the flock doomed to be slaughtered by the sheep traders. And I took two staffs, one I named (E)Favor, the other I named (F)Union. (G)And I tended the sheep. 8 In one month (H)I destroyed the three shepherds. But I became impatient with them, and they also detested me.
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Micah 6:10-12
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10 Can I forget any longer the treasures[a] of wickedness in the house of the wicked,
and the scant measure that is accursed?
11 Shall I acquit the man (A)with wicked scales
and with a bag of deceitful weights?
12 Your[b] rich men are (B)full of violence;
your inhabitants (C)speak lies,
and (D)their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
Footnotes
- Micah 6:10 Or Are there still treasures
- Micah 6:12 Hebrew whose
Isaiah 37:23
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23 “‘Whom have you mocked and reviled?
Against whom have you raised your voice
and lifted your eyes to the heights?
Against (A)the Holy One of Israel!
Psalm 49:11-13
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11 Their (A)graves are their homes forever,[a]
their dwelling places (B)to all generations,
though they (C)called lands by their own names.
12 Man in his pomp (D)will not remain;
(E)he is like the beasts that perish.
13 This is the path of those who have (F)foolish confidence;
yet after them people approve of their boasts.[b] Selah
Footnotes
- Psalm 49:11 Septuagint, Syriac, Targum; Hebrew Their inward thought was that their homes were forever
- Psalm 49:13 Or and of those after them who approve of their boasts
Psalm 49:6
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6 those who (A)trust in their wealth
and boast of the abundance of their riches?
Psalm 5:6
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Job 31:24
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Deuteronomy 29:19
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19 one who, when he hears the words of this sworn covenant, blesses himself in his heart, saying, ‘I shall be safe, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart.’ This will lead to the sweeping away of moist and dry alike.
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Exodus 15:9
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9 The enemy said, (A)‘I will pursue, I will overtake,
I (B)will divide the spoil, my desire shall have its fill of them.
I will draw my sword; my hand shall destroy them.’
1 John 2:15
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Do Not Love the World
15 (A)Do not love the world or the things in the world. (B)If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
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James 4:13
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Boasting About Tomorrow
13 Come now, you who say, (A)“Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”—
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2 Timothy 3:2-4
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2 For people will be (A)lovers of self, (B)lovers of money, (C)proud, (D)arrogant, abusive, (E)disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 (F)heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, (G)not loving good, 4 treacherous, reckless, (H)swollen with conceit, (I)lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
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1 Timothy 6:9-10
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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. 10 For the love of money is a root of (D)all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.
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Colossians 3:5
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5 (A)Put to death therefore (B)what is earthly in you:[a] (C)sexual immorality, impurity, (D)passion, evil desire, and covetousness, (E)which is idolatry.
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- Colossians 3:5 Greek therefore your members that are on the earth
Ephesians 5:5
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5 For you may be sure of this, that (A)everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous ((B)that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.
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1 Corinthians 6:10
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10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
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Romans 1:32
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32 Though they know (A)God's righteous decree that those who practice such things (B)deserve to die, they not only do them but (C)give approval to those who practice them.
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Romans 1:29
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29 They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips,
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Luke 16:14-15
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The Law and the Kingdom of God
14 (A)The Pharisees, who were (B)lovers of money, heard all these things, and they (C)ridiculed him. 15 And he said to them, “You are those who (D)justify yourselves before men, but (E)God knows your hearts. For what is exalted among men (F)is an abomination in the sight of God.
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Luke 12:15
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15 And he said to them, (A)“Take care, and be on your guard against all covetousness, for one's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”
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Matthew 26:15-16
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15 and said, “What will you give me if I deliver him over to you?” And they (A)paid him (B)thirty pieces of silver. 16 And from that moment he sought an opportunity (C)to betray him.
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Habakkuk 2:9
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9 (A)“Woe to him who gets evil gain for his house,
(B)to (C)set his nest on high,
to be safe from the reach of harm!
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