Jeremiah 22:17
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17 But your eyes and heart
are only on your dishonest gain,
for shedding innocent blood,
and for practicing oppression and violence.(A)
2 Peter 2:14
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14 They have eyes full of adultery,[a] insatiable for sin. They entice unsteady souls. They have hearts trained in greed. Accursed children!
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- 2.14 Gk adulteress; or longing for an adulteress
Ezekiel 19:6
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6 He prowled among the lions;
he became a young lion,
and he learned to catch prey;
he devoured people.(A)
Jeremiah 22:3
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3 Thus says the Lord: Act with justice and righteousness and deliver from the hand of the oppressor anyone who has been robbed. And do no wrong or violence to the alien, the orphan, and the widow, or shed innocent blood in this place.(A)
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2 Kings 24:4
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4 and also for the innocent blood that he had shed, for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the Lord was not willing to pardon.(A)
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Ezekiel 33:31
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31 They come to you as people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but they will not obey them. For flattery is on their lips, but their heart is set on their gain.[a](A)
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- 33.31 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Psalm 10:3
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3 For the wicked boast of the desires of their heart;
those greedy for gain curse and renounce the Lord.(A)
2 Peter 2:3
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3 And in their greed they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation, pronounced against them long ago, has not been idle, and their destruction is not asleep.(A)
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James 1:14-15
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14 But one is tempted by one’s own desire, being lured and enticed by it; 15 then, when desire has conceived, it engenders sin, and sin, when it is fully grown, gives birth to death.(A)
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Colossians 3:5
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5 Put to death, therefore, whatever in you is earthly: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed (which is idolatry).(A)
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Ephesians 5:3-5
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Renounce Pagan Ways
3 But sexual immorality and impurity of any kind or greed must not even be mentioned among you, as is proper among saints.(A) 4 Entirely out of place is obscene, silly, and vulgar talk; but instead, let there be thanksgiving. 5 Be sure of this, that no sexually immoral or impure person or one who is greedy (that is, an idolater) has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.(B)
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1 Corinthians 6:10
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10 thieves, the greedy, drunkards, revilers, swindlers—none of these will inherit the kingdom of God.
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Romans 1:29
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29 They were filled with every kind of injustice, evil, covetousness, malice. Full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, craftiness, they are gossips,
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Luke 16:13-14
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13 No slave can serve two masters, for a slave will either hate the one and love the other or be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.”[a](A)
The Law and the Kingdom of God
14 The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all this, and they ridiculed him.(B)
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- 16.13 Gk mammon
Luke 12:15-21
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15 And he said to them, “Take care! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of possessions.”(A) 16 Then he told them a parable: “The land of a rich man produced abundantly. 17 And he thought to himself, ‘What should I do, for I have no place to store my crops?’ 18 Then he said, ‘I will do this: I will pull down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. 19 And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.’(B) 20 But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life is being demanded of you. And the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’(C) 21 So it is with those who store up treasures for themselves but are not rich toward God.”(D)
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Mark 7:21-22
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21 For it is from within, from the human heart, that evil intentions come: sexual immorality, theft, murder, 22 adultery, avarice, wickedness, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, pride, folly.
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Zephaniah 3:3
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3 The officials within it
are roaring lions;
its judges are evening wolves
that leave nothing until the morning.(A)
Jeremiah 26:22-24
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22 Then King Jehoiakim sent[a] Elnathan son of Achbor and men with him to Egypt,(A) 23 and they took Uriah from Egypt and brought him to King Jehoiakim, who struck him down with the sword and threw his dead body into the burial place of the common people.
24 But the hand of Ahikam son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah so that he was not given over into the hands of the people to be put to death.(B)
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- 26.22 Heb adds men to Egypt
Psalm 119:36-37
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36 Turn my heart to your decrees
and not to selfish gain.(A)
37 Turn my eyes from looking at vanities;
be gracious to me[a] according to your word.(B)
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- 119.37 Q ms: MT give me life
Job 31:7
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7 if my step has turned aside from the way,
and my heart has followed my eyes,
and if any spot has clung to my hands,(A)
2 Chronicles 36:8
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8 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim and the abominations that he did and what was found against him are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah, and his son Jehoiachin succeeded him.(A)
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1 Kings 21:19
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19 You shall say to him: Thus says the Lord: Have you killed and also taken possession? You shall say to him: Thus says the Lord: In the place where dogs licked up the blood of Naboth, dogs will also lick up your blood.”(A)
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Joshua 7:21
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21 when I saw among the spoil a beautiful mantle from Shinar and two hundred shekels of silver and a bar of gold weighing fifty shekels, then I coveted them and took them. They now lie hidden in the ground inside my tent, with the silver underneath.”
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Exodus 18:21
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21 You should also look for able men among all the people, men who fear God, are trustworthy, and hate dishonest gain; set them as officers over thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens.(A)
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1 John 2:15-16
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15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. The love of the Father is not in those who love the world,(A) 16 for all that is in the world—the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, the pride in riches—comes not from the Father but from the world.
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