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Isaiah 56:11
Yes, the dogs are greedy. They can never have enough. They are shepherds who can’t understand. They have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.
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Jeremiah 6:13
“ For from their least even to their greatest, everyone is given to covetousness. From the prophet even to the priest, everyone deals falsely.
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Ephesians 5:3-5
But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate, but rather giving of thanks.Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.
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Jeremiah 2:30
“ I have struck your children in vain. They received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
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Jeremiah 22:17
But your eyes and your heart are only for your covetousness, for shedding innocent blood, for oppression, and for doing violence.”
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Jeremiah 8:10
Therefore I will give their wives to others, and their fields to those who will possess them. For everyone from the least even to the greatest is given to covetousness; from the prophet even to the priest everyone deals falsely.
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Luke 12:15
He said to them,“ Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.”
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Isaiah 1:4
Ah sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.
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Luke 15:14-16
When he had spent all of it, there arose a severe famine in that country, and he began to be in need.He went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.He wanted to fill his belly with the husks that the pigs ate, but no one gave him any.
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Isaiah 5:8-9
Woe to those who join house to house, who lay field to field, until there is no room, and you are made to dwell alone in the middle of the land!In my ears, Yahweh of Armies says:“ Surely many houses will be desolate, even great and beautiful, unoccupied.
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Ezekiel 33:31
They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don’t do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.
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Jeremiah 5:3
O Yahweh, don’t your eyes look on truth? You have stricken them, but they were not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock. They have refused to return.
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Micah 2:2-3
They covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.Therefore Yahweh says:“ Behold, I am planning against these people a disaster, from which you will not remove your necks, neither will you walk haughtily; for it is an evil time.
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Isaiah 8:17
I will wait for Yahweh, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
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2 Peter 2 3
In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.
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1 Timothy 6 9
But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation, a snare, and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.
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Ecclesiastes 6:9
Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.
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Isaiah 9:13
Yet the people have not turned to him who struck them, neither have they sought Yahweh of Armies.
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Colossians 3:5
Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
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2 Peter 2 14
having eyes full of adultery, and who can’t cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;
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Isaiah 45:15
Most certainly you are a God who has hidden yourself, God of Israel, the Savior.’”