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 now, you rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
Proverbs 1:19
So are the ways of everyone that is greedy of gain; which takes away the life of its owners.
Ecclesiastes 4:8
There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he has neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labor; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither says he, For whom do I labor, and deprive my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a heavy travail.
Habakkuk 2:5
Yea also, because he transgresses by wine, he is a proud man, neither keeps at home, who enlarges his desire as sheol, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathers unto him all nations, and heaps unto him all people:
1 Timothy 6:9
But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which plunge men into destruction and perdition.
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Galatians 5:15
But if you bite and devour one another, take heed that you be not consumed one of another.