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
Come on now, you rich people, cry and wail over the miseries that are coming upon you.
1 Timothy 6:9
But those people who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires, which plunge people into ruin and [spiritual] destruction.

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Galatians 5:15
But if you [unlovingly] bite and eat one another [i.e., figuratively], be careful that you do not totally consume one another.