Proverbs 1:19

Advice To The Young

¹⁸ Yet, they, for their own blood, lie in wait, They watch in secret for their own life. ¹⁹ Such are the ways of every one that graspeth with greed, The life of the owners thereof, it taketh away! ²⁰ Wisdom, in the open place, soundeth forth, in the broadways, she raiseth her voice;

Greedy for Gain

Proverbs 15:27

He, troubleth his own house, who graspeth with greed, but, he that hateth gifts, shall live.

2 Samuel 18:11-13

Then said Joab to the man that was telling him, Lo! since thou sawest him, why didst thou not smite him there, to the ground? then should I have been bound to give thee ten pieces of silver, and a girdle.

2 Kings 5:20-27

Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said - Lo! my lord, hath restrained, this Naaman the Syrian, by not taking at his hand that which he brought! By the life of Yahweh, verily, I will runs after him, and accept of him, something.

Job 31:39

If, the strength thereof, I used to eat, without payment, and, the soul of the holders thereof, I made groan;

Proverbs 23:3-4

Do not crave his dainties, for, the same, are deceitful food.

Ecclesiastes 5:13

Here was an incurable evil, I had seen under the sun, riches kept by the owner thereof, to his hurt;

Jeremiah 22:17-19

Verily thou hast neither eyes nor heart, save for thy plundering and for thy shedding of innocent blood, and for oppression and for crushing to do them!

Micah 2:1-3

Alas for them who devise iniquity and work wickedness upon their beds, - in the light of the morning, they will execute it, for it is in the power of their hand.

Micah 3:10-12

Building Zion, with deeds of blood, - and Jerusalem, with perversity.

Habakkuk 2:9

Alas! for him who extorteth an extortion of wrong for his own house, - that he may set on high his nest, that he may be delivered from the grasp of calamity.

Acts 8:19-20

Saying - Give unto me also this authority, - in order that, on whomsoever may lay my hands, he may receive Holy Spirit.

1 Timothy 3:3

Not given to wine, not ready to wound, but considerate, averse to contention, not fond of money,

1 Timothy 6:9-10

But, they who are determined to be rich, fall into temptation, and a snare, and many foolish and hurtful covetings, the which, sink men into ruin and destruction, -

James 5:1-4

Come now! ye wealthy! Weep ye, howling, for your hardships which are coming upon you:

2 Peter 2:3

And, in greed, with forged words, will they, of you, make merchandise: for whom, the sentence from of old, is not idle, and, their destruction, doth not slumber.

2 Peter 2:14-16

Having, eyes, full of an adulteress, and that cannot rest from sin, enticing unstable souls, having, a heart trained in greed, - children of a curse, -