Greed
6 links · from 1 Samuel 8:3
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1 Samuel 8:3
And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.
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Proverbs 1:13
We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
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Proverbs 1:19
So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
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Proverbs 15:27
He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live.
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Proverbs 21:26
He coveteth greedily all the day long: but the righteous giveth and spareth not.
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Isaiah 56:11
Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.
From Thompson’s Chain-Reference Bible (1908), by Frank Charles Thompson.