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 people, weep [and] cry aloud over the miseries that are coming upon you!
Proverbs 1:19
Thus are the ways of all who are greedy [for] gain-- it will take the life of its possessors.
Ecclesiastes 4:8
Sometimes a man is all alone with no companion; he also has neither son nor brother. Yet there is no end to all his toil, and his eye is not satisfied with wealth. [He laments,] "For whom am I toiling and depriving {myself} of pleasure?" This also [is] vanity--it is an unhappy business!
Habakkuk 2:5
{How much less} the defiant; [the] arrogant, treacherous man? He who broadens his throat like Sheol, and who, like death, is not satisfied, and who gathers to himself all the nations, and harvested for himself all the peoples, will not succeed.
1 Timothy 6:9
But those who want to be rich fall into temptation and a trap and many foolish and harmful desires, which plunge those people into ruin and destruction.
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Galatians 5:15
But if you bite and devour one another, watch out [that] you are not consumed by one another.