Proverbs 15:27
He who is greedy for gain troubles his own house, but he who hates bribes will live.
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Proverbs 15:27
He who is greedy for gain troubles his own house, but he who hates bribes will live.
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Exodus 18:21
Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men which fear God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
Exodus 20:17
“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.”
Joshua 7:21
When I saw among the plunder a beautiful Babylonian robe, two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, then I coveted them and took them. Behold, they are hidden in the ground in the middle of my tent, with the silver under it.”
Psalms 10:3
For the wicked boasts of his heart’s cravings. He blesses the greedy and condemns Yahweh.
Proverbs 1:13
We’ll find all valuable wealth. We’ll fill our houses with plunder.
Proverbs 21:26
There are those who covet greedily all day long; but the righteous give and don’t withhold.
Ecclesiastes 5:10
He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he who loves abundance, with increase. This also is vanity.
Ephesians 5:5
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.
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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1 Samuel 8:4
Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together and came to Samuel to Ramah.
1 Samuel 8:5
They said to him, “Behold, you are old, and your sons don’t walk in your ways. Now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.”
Isaiah 5:8
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!
Habakkuk 2:11
For the stone will cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the woodwork will answer it.
Zechariah 5:3
Then he said to me, “This is the curse that goes out over the surface of the whole land, for everyone who steals shall be cut off according to it on the one side; and everyone who swears falsely shall be cut off according to it on the other side.
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1 Kings 2:40
Shimei arose, saddled his donkey, and went to Gath to Achish to seek his slaves; and Shimei went and brought his slaves from Gath.
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Job 15:34
For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of bribery.
Psalms 26:10
in whose hands is wickedness; their right hand is full of bribes.
Proverbs 17:8
A bribe is a precious stone in the eyes of him who gives it; wherever he turns, he prospers.
Isaiah 5:23
who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice for the innocent!
Ezekiel 22:12
In you have they taken bribes to shed blood. You have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me,” says the Lord Yahweh.
Ezekiel 22:13
“ ‘ “Behold, therefore I have struck my hand at your dishonest gain which you have made, and at the blood which has been shed within you.
Hosea 4:18
Their drink has become sour. They play the prostitute continually. Her rulers dearly love their shameful way.
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Proverbs 11:17
The merciful man does good to his own soul, but he who is cruel troubles his own flesh.
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Proverbs 15:6
In the house of the righteous is much treasure, but the income of the wicked brings trouble.
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Proverbs 15:25
Yahweh will uproot the house of the proud, but he will keep the widow’s borders intact.
Proverbs 15:26
Yahweh detests the thoughts of the wicked, but the thoughts of the pure are pleasing.
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