Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.

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Bible References

Lust

James 5:1
Go now, ye rich, weep, howling for your miseries that are approaching.
Proverbs 1:19
So are the ways of everyone who is greedy of gain. It takes away the life of the owners of it.
Habakkuk 2:5
Yea, moreover, wine is treacherous.) [He is] a haughty man, who does not keep at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol, and he is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathers to him all nations, and heaps to him all peoples.
1 Timothy 6:9
But those who want to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, which sink men in destruction and ruin.

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Galatians 5:15
But if ye bite and devour each other, watch out that ye be not consumed by each other.