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, rich ones, weep and howl for your hardships coming on.
Proverbs 1:19
So are the ways of everyone who gains unjust gain; it takes away its owners' life.
Ecclesiastes 4:8
There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he has neither son nor brother; yet there is no end to all his labor; and his eyes are not satisfied with riches; and he says, For whom do I labor and take good from my soul? This is also vanity. Yes, it is an evil business.
Habakkuk 2:5
And also wine indeed betrays a proud man, and he is not content. He widens his soul like Sheol, and he is like death, and is not satisfied, but gathers all nations to himself, and heaps to himself all the peoples.
1 Timothy 6:9
But they who 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 are not consumed by one another.