Joshua 7:21

Achan Judged

²⁰ Achan answered Joshua: Indeed I have sinned against Jehovah the God of Israel. This I have done. ²¹ when I saw among the spoil a beautiful mantle from Shinar and two hundred shekels of silver and a bar of gold fifty shekels in weight, then I coveted them and took them; and behold, they are concealed in the earth inside my tent with the silver underneath it.” ²² So Joshua sent messengers to the tent and found it and the silver.

Shekels of Silver

Babylon

Jericho

Shinar

Deuteronomy 7:25

Burn the carved images of their gods with fire. Do not covet the silver or the gold that is on them. Do not take it for yourselves, or you will be snared by it. It is an abomination to Jehovah your God.

Genesis 3:6

When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.

Genesis 6:2

The sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful. They married any of them they chose.

Genesis 10:10

The first centers of his kingdom were Babylon, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in Shinar.

Exodus 20:17

Do not covet (desire) another man's house. Do not desire his wife, his slaves, his cattle, his donkeys, or anything else that he owns.

2 Samuel 11:2

Late one afternoon, David got up from his nap and went to the palace roof. He walked around on the roof. He saw a woman taking a bath. She was very beautiful.

2 Samuel 11:6-17

David sent a messenger to Joab, saying: Send me Uriah the Hittite. So Joab sent Uriah to David.

1 Kings 21:1-2

Naboth the Jezreelite had a garden in Jezreel, near the house of Ahab, king of Samaria.

2 Kings 5:20-27

when Elisha's servant Gehazi said to himself: My master has let Naaman get away without paying a thing! He should have accepted what that Syrian offered him. By the living God Jehovah I will run after him and get something from him.

Job 31:1

I made a covenant with my eyes not to look lustfully at a young woman.

Psalm 119:37

Turn away my eyes from looking at vanity, and revive me in your ways.

Proverbs 4:23

Guard your heart with all diligence for out of it come the source of life.

Proverbs 23:31

Do not look on the wine when it is red, when it shines in the cup, when it goes down smoothly.

Proverbs 28:22

He who hurries to be rich has an evil eye. He does not think poverty will come to him.

Isaiah 28:15

Because you have said: We have made a covenant with death, and with the grave we are in agreement. When the overflowing scourge passes through, it will not come to us, for we have made lies our refuge. We have hidden under falsehood!

Isaiah 29:15

You are in for trouble, if you try to hide your plans from Jehovah! You think what you do in the dark cannot be seen. So you ask: Who sees us, who knows us?

Micah 2:1-2

Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! When the morning comes they do it because they are able to (it is in the power of their hands).

Habakkuk 2:9

He who receives a dishonest profit for his house will have trouble. He may set his nest on high in order to be delivered from the hand of evil!

Matthew 5:28-29

However, I tell you that whoever looks at a woman with lustful thoughts commits adultery with her in his heart.

Luke 12:2

Everything covered up will be revealed. Everything hidden will be made known.

Luke 12:15

Jesus said: Be careful, do not covet, for life does not come from your possessions.

Romans 7:7-8

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid! I had not known sin except through the law. For I had not known coveting except the law had said: You should not covet.

Ephesians 5:3

Fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, must not even be mentioned among you, as is proper among holy ones.

Ephesians 5:5

For you know this with certainty, that no fornicator, no unclean person, no covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

Colossians 3:5

Make your members that are upon the earth dead with regard to fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness (greed), which is idolatry.

1 Timothy 6:9-10

Those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and hurtful lusts. These draw men into ruin and destruction.

Hebrews 13:5

You should be free from the love of money. Be content with what you have, for he has said: I will not leave you. I will not forsake you.

James 1:15

Then evil desires, when conceived, give birth to sin: and the sin, when it is full grown, brings forth death.

2 Peter 2:15

They went astray, forsaking the right way. They followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing.

1 John 2:15-16

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If any one loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.