Proverbs 15:27
He whose desires are fixed on profit is a cause of trouble to his family; but he who has no desire for offerings will have life.
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Proverbs 15:27
He whose desires are fixed on profit is a cause of trouble to his family; but he who has no desire for offerings will have life.
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Genesis 34:30
And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, You have made trouble for me and given me a bad name among the people of this country, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and because we are small in number they will come together against me and make war on me; and it will be the end of me and all my people.
Genesis 49:5
Simeon and Levi are brothers; deceit and force are their secret designs.
Genesis 49:6
Take no part in their secrets, O my soul; keep far away, O my heart, from their meetings; for in their wrath they put men to death, and for their pleasure even oxen were wounded.
Genesis 49:7
A curse on their passion for it was bitter; and on their wrath for it was cruel. I will let their heritage in Jacob be broken up, driving them from their places in Israel.
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Deuteronomy 7:26
And you may not take a disgusting thing into your house, and so become cursed with its curse: but keep yourselves from it, turning from it with fear and hate, for it is a cursed thing.
Joshua 7:1
But the children of Israel did wrong about the cursed thing: for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the family of Judah, took of the cursed thing, moving the Lord to wrath against the children of Israel.
Joshua 7:11
Israel has done wrong, sinning against the agreement which I made with them: they have even taken of the cursed thing; acting falsely like thieves they have put it among their goods.
Joshua 7:12
For this reason the children of Israel have given way, turning their backs in flight before their attackers, because they are cursed: I will no longer be with you, if you do not put the cursed thing away from among you.
Joshua 7:22
So Joshua sent men quickly, and looking in his tent, they saw where the robe had been put away secretly with the silver under it.
Joshua 7:23
And they took them from the tent and came back with them to Joshua and the children of Israel, and put them before the Lord.
1 Kings 18:17
And when he saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, Is it you, you troubler of Israel?
1 Kings 18:18
Then he said in answer, I have not been troubling Israel, but you and your family; because, turning away from the orders of the Lord, you have gone after the Baals.
1 Chronicles 2:7
And the sons of Carmi: Achan, the troubler of Israel, who did wrong about the cursed thing.
Proverbs 11:19
So righteousness gives life; but he who goes after evil gets death for himself.
Isaiah 5:9
The Lord of armies has said to me secretly, Truly, numbers of great and fair houses will be waste, with no one living in them.
Isaiah 5:10
For ten fields of vines will only give one measure of wine, and a great amount of seed will only give a small measure of grain.
Zechariah 5:4
And I will send it out, says the Lord of armies, and it will go into the house of the thief and into the house of him who takes a false oath by my name: and it will be in his house, causing its complete destruction, with its woodwork and its stones.
Galatians 5:12
My desire is that they who give you trouble might even be cut off themselves.
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1 Samuel 12:3
Here I am: give witness against me before the Lord and before the man on whom he has put the holy oil: whose ox or ass have I taken? to whom have I been untrue? who has been crushed down by me? from whose hand have I taken a price for the blinding of my eyes? I will give it all back to you.
1 Samuel 15:19
Why then did you not do the orders of the Lord, but by violently taking their goods did evil in the eyes of the Lord?
2 Kings 5:20
But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha, the man of God, said, Now my master has taken nothing from Naaman, this Aramaean, of what he would have given him: by the living Lord, I will go after him and get something from him.
Psalms 16:5
The Lord is my heritage and the wine of my cup; you are the supporter of my right.
Proverbs 18:5
To have respect for the person of the evil-doer is not good, or to give a wrong decision against the upright.
Proverbs 19:4
Wealth makes a great number of friends; but the poor man is parted from his friend.
Isaiah 33:16
He will have a place on high: he will be safely shut in by the high rocks: his bread will be given to him; his waters will be certain.
Jeremiah 7:11
Has this house, which is named by my name, become a hole of thieves to you? Truly I, even I, have seen it, says the Lord.
Jeremiah 8:10
So I will give their wives to others, and their fields to those who will take them for themselves: for everyone, from the least to the greatest, is given up to getting money; from the priest even to the prophet, everyone is false.
Ezekiel 22:27
Her rulers in her are like wolves violently taking their food; putting men to death and causing the destruction of souls, so that they may get their profit.
Amos 5:12
For I have seen how your evil-doing is increased and how strong are your sins, you troublers of the upright, who take rewards and do wrong to the cause of the poor in the public place.
Habakkuk 2:12
A curse on him who is building a place with blood, and basing a town on evil-doing!
Colossians 3:22
Servants, in all things do the orders of your natural masters; not only when their eyes are on you, as pleasers of men, but with all your heart, fearing the Lord:
1 Timothy 3:3
Not quickly moved to wrath or blows, but gentle; no fighter, no lover of money;
2 Timothy 4:10
For Demas has gone away from me, for love of this present life, and has gone to Thessalonica: Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.
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Psalms 3:1
A Psalm. Of David. When he went in flight from Absalom his son. Lord, how greatly are they increased who make attacks on me! in great numbers they come against me.
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Psalms 30:5
For his wrath is only for a minute; in his grace there is life; weeping may be for a night, but joy comes in the morning.
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Psalms 97:10
You who are lovers of the Lord, be haters of evil; he keeps the souls of his saints; he takes them out of the hand of sinners.
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Proverbs 11:5
The righteousness of the good man will make his way straight, but the sin of the evil-doer will be the cause of his fall.
Proverbs 11:15
He who makes himself responsible for a strange man will undergo much loss; but the hater of such undertakings will be safe.
Proverbs 15:21
Foolish behaviour is joy to the unwise; but a man of good sense makes his way straight.
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Proverbs 15:28
The heart of the upright gives thought to his answer; but from the mouth of the evil-doer comes a stream of evil things.
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Proverbs 18:1
He who keeps himself separate for his private purpose goes against all good sense.
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Proverbs 18:16
A man's offering makes room for him, letting him come before great men.
Proverbs 21:14
By a secret offering wrath is turned away, and the heat of angry feelings by money in the folds of the robe.
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Proverbs 25:14
As clouds and wind without rain, so is one who takes credit for an offering he has not given.
Jeremiah 6:13
For from the least of them even to the greatest, everyone is given up to getting money; from the prophet even to the priest, everyone is working deceit.
Matthew 6:27
And which of you by taking thought is able to make himself a cubit taller?
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Ecclesiastes 3:8
A time for love and a time for hate; a time for war and a time for peace.
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Numbers 22:21
So in the morning Balaam got up and, making his ass ready, went with the chiefs of Moab.
Deuteronomy 27:25
Cursed is he who for a reward puts to death one who has done no wrong. And let all the people say, So be it.
Judges 1:11
And from there he went up against the people of Debir. (Now the name of Debir in earlier times was Kiriath-sepher.)
1 Samuel 15:9
But Saul and the people did not put Agag to death, and they kept the best of the sheep and the oxen and the fat beasts and the lambs, and whatever was good, not desiring to put them to the curse: but everything which was bad and of no use they put to the curse.
2 Kings 5:27
Because of what you have done, the disease of Naaman the leper will take you in its grip, and your seed after you, for ever. And he went out from before him a leper as white as snow.
Psalms 15:5
He who does not put out his money at interest, or for payment give false decisions against men who have done no wrong. He who does these things will never be moved.
Proverbs 15:29
The Lord is far from sinners, but his ear is open to the prayer of the upright.
Isaiah 1:13
Give me no more false offerings; the smoke of burning flesh is disgusting to me, so are your new moons and Sabbaths and your holy meetings.
Isaiah 1:23
Your chiefs have gone against the Lord, they have become friends of thieves; every one of them is looking for profit and going after rewards; they do not give right decisions for the child who has no father, and they do not let the cause of the widow come before them.
Jeremiah 22:17
But your eyes and your heart are fixed only on profit for yourself, on causing the death of him who has done no wrong, and on violent and cruel acts.
Ezekiel 22:14
Will your heart be high or your hands strong in the days when I take you in hand? I the Lord have said it and will do it.
Micah 7:3
Their hands are made ready to do evil; the ruler makes requests for money, and the judge is looking for a reward; and the great man gives decisions at his pleasure, and the right is twisted.
Colossians 3:5
Then put to death your bodies which are of the earth; wrong use of the flesh, unclean things, passion, evil desires and envy, which is the worship of strange gods;
2 Peter 2:15
Turning out of the true way, they have gone wandering in error, after the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who was pleased to take payment for wrongdoing;
Jude 1:11
A curse on them! They have gone in the way of Cain, running uncontrolled into the error of Balaam for reward, and have come to destruction by saying evil against the Lord, like Korah.
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Isaiah 58:7
Is it not to give your bread to those in need, and to let the poor who have no resting-place come into your house? to put a robe on the unclothed one when you see him, and not to keep your eyes shut for fear of seeing his flesh?
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Romans 7:7
What then is to be said? is the law sin? in no way. But I would not have had knowledge of sin but for the law: for I would not have been conscious of desire if the law had not said, You may not have a desire for what is another's.
Romans 7:8
But sin, taking its chance through that which was ordered by the law, was working in me every form of desire: because without the law sin is dead.
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Job 20:15
He takes down wealth as food, and sends it up again; it is forced out of his stomach by God.
Job 20:19
Because he has been cruel to the poor, turning away from them in their trouble; because he has taken a house by force which he did not put up;
Job 20:20
There is no peace for him in his wealth, and no salvation for him in those things in which he took delight.
Job 20:21
He had never enough for his desire; for this cause his well-being will quickly come to an end.
Job 20:22
Even when his wealth is great, he is full of care, for the hand of everyone who is in trouble is turned against him.
Job 20:23
God gives him his desire, and sends the heat of his wrath on him, making it come down on him like rain.
Proverbs 10:22
The blessing of the Lord gives wealth: hard work makes it no greater.
Ecclesiastes 4:8
It is one who is by himself, without a second, and without son or brother; but there is no end to all his work, and he has never enough of wealth. For whom, then, am I working and keeping myself from pleasure? This again is to no purpose, and a bitter work.
Ecclesiastes 5:13
There is a great evil which I have seen under the sun--wealth kept by the owner to be his downfall.
Luke 16:9
And I say to you, Make friends for yourselves through the wealth of this life, so that when it comes to an end, you may be taken into the eternal resting-places.
James 2:13
For the man who has had no mercy will be judged without mercy, but mercy takes pride in overcoming judging.
James 5:1
Come now, you men of wealth, give yourselves to weeping and crying because of the bitter troubles which are coming to you.
James 5:2
Your wealth is unclean and insects have made holes in your clothing.
James 5:4
See, the money which you falsely kept back from the workers cutting the grass in your field, is crying out against you; and the cries of those who took in your grain have come to the ears of the Lord of armies.
James 5:5
You have been living delicately on earth and have taken your pleasure; you have made your hearts fat for a day of destruction.
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Acts 19:25
Whom he got together, with other workmen of the same trade, and said to them, Men, it is clear that from this business we get our wealth.
Revelation 18:15
The traders in these things, by which their wealth was increased, will be watching far off for fear of her punishment, weeping and crying;
Revelation 18:16
Saying, Sorrow, sorrow for the great town, she who was clothed in delicate linen, and purple, and red; with ornaments of gold and stones of great price and jewels!
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