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.

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  1. Psalm 10:3 Or and he blesses the one greedy for gain

They pour out their (A)arrogant words;
    all (B)the evildoers boast.

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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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(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. 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.”

(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. In one month (H)I destroyed the three shepherds. But I became impatient with them, and they also detested me.

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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.

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  1. Micah 6:10 Or Are there still treasures
  2. Micah 6:12 Hebrew whose

17 But you have eyes and heart
    only for your dishonest gain,
(A)for shedding innocent blood,
    and for practicing oppression and violence.”

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those who (A)trust in their wealth
    and boast of the abundance of their riches?

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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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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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For people will be (A)lovers of self, (B)lovers of money, (C)proud, (D)arrogant, abusive, (E)disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, (F)heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, (G)not loving good, treacherous, reckless, (H)swollen with conceit, (I)lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

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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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(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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  1. Colossians 3:5 Greek therefore your members that are on the earth

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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10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

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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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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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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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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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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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(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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A merchant, in whose hands are (A)false balances,
    he loves (B)to oppress.
Ephraim has said, “Ah, but (C)I am rich;
    I have found wealth for myself;
in all my labors (D)they cannot find in me iniquity or sin.”

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17 Because of the iniquity of his (A)unjust gain I was angry,
    I struck him; I hid my face and was angry,
    but he went on backsliding in the way of his own heart.

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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!

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But he (A)does not so intend,
    and his heart does not so think;
but it is in his heart to destroy,
    and to cut off nations not a few;
for he says:
(B)“Are not my commanders all kings?
(C)Is not (D)Calno like (E)Carchemish?
    Is not (F)Hamath like (G)Arpad?
    (H)Is not (I)Samaria like Damascus?
10 As my hand has reached to (J)the kingdoms of the idols,
    whose carved images were greater than those of Jerusalem and Samaria,
11 shall I not do to Jerusalem and (K)her idols
    (L)as I have done to Samaria and her images?”

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Those who forsake the law (A)praise the wicked,
    but those who keep the law (B)strive against them.

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