Jeremiah 22:17

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.

Thine eyes

Covetousness

To shed

Zephaniah 3:3

General references

Leviticus 25:14

Proverbs 1:13

Bible References

Thine eyes

When I saw among the spoil a goodly Babylon mantle, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them. And, behold, they are hid in the ground in the midst of my tent

if my step has turned out of the way, and my heart walked after my eyes, and if any spot has clung to my hands,

Incline my heart to thy testimonies, and not to covetousness.

And he went up and down among the lions. He became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey. He devoured men.

And they come to thee as the people come, and they sit before thee as my people. And they hear thy words, but do not do them. For with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.

For from inside the heart of men proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts,

But each man is tempted by his own lust, being drawn away and enticed.

having eyes full of adultery, and unceasing sin, enticing unstable souls, having a heart trained in greed, children of a curse,

Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Covetousness

Moreover thou shall provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating unjust gain, and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens,

For the wicked man boasts of his heart's desire. And the greedy man renounces, [yea], despises LORD.

And he said to them, Watch, and keep away from greed, because to any man, life to him is not in the abundance of things possessed by him.

No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will hold to one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

having been filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity;

nor greedy men, nor thieves, nor drunkards, nor the slanderous, nor the predatory will inherit the kingdom of God.

But fornication, and all uncleanness, or greed, shall not even be named among you as befits the sanctified,

Put to death therefore your body-parts on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry.

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.

And they will exploit you in greed with fabricated words, whose judgment is not idle for long, and their destruction will not slumber.

To shed

Thus says LORD: Execute ye justice and righteousness. And deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. And do no wrong. Do no violence to the sojourner, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in t

And Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt, [namely], Elnathan the son of Achbor, and certain men with him, into Egypt,

And thou shall speak to him, saying, Thus says LORD, Have thou killed and also taken possession? And thou shall speak to him, saying, Thus says LORD, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, eve

and also for the innocent blood that he shed, for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and LORD would not pardon.

Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his abominations which he did, and that which was found in him, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah. And Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.

And he went up and down among the lions. He became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey. He devoured men.

Her rulers in the midst of her are roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing till the morrow.

General references

And if thou sell anything to thy neighbor, or buy of thy neighbor's hand, ye shall not wrong each other.

We shall find all precious substance. We shall fill our houses with spoil.