Proverbs 1:19

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Summary

Proverbs 1:19

So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

Every

Taketh

Job 31:39

Ecclesiastes 5:13

General references

Proverbs 1:13

Bible References

Every

He that is greedy of gain troubles his own house; but he that hates bribes shall live.

Be not desirous of his delicacies: for they are deceitful food.

And Joab said unto the man that told him, And, behold, you saw him, and why did you not strike him there to the ground? and I would have given you ten shekels of silver, and a belt.

But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my master has spared Naaman this Syrian, in not receiving from his hands that which he brought: but, as the LORD lives, I will run after him, and take something from him.

But your eyes and your heart are for nothing but for your covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.

Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

Woe to him that covets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of ruin!

Saying, Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I lay hands, he may receive the Holy Spirit.

Not given to wine, not violent, not greedy of money; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;

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.

Come now, you rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.

And through covetousness shall they with false words exploit you: whose judgment of old now lingers not, and their destruction slumbers not.

Taketh

If I have eaten its fruit without payment, or have caused its owners to lose their life:

There is a great evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept by their owners to their hurt.

General references

We shall find all kinds of precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil: