Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live.
Bible References
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Proverbs 1:19
So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; who taketh away the life of its owners.
Proverbs 11:19
As righteousness tendeth to life: so he that pursueth evil pursueth it to his own death.
Proverbs 20:21
An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end of it shall not be blessed.
Deuteronomy 7:26
Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thy house, lest thou shouldst be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.
Joshua 6:18
And ye, in any wise keep yourselves from the accursed thing, lest ye make yourselves accursed, when ye take of the accursed thing, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it.
Joshua 7:11
Israel hath sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded them: for they have even taken of the accursed thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also, and they have put it even among their own goods.
1 Samuel 8:3
And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.
2 Kings 5:27
The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave to thee, and to thy seed for ever. And he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow.
Isaiah 5:8
Woe to them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there is no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!
Jeremiah 17:11
As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.
Habakkuk 2:9
Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!
Zechariah 5:3
Then said he to me, This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off as on this side according to it; and every one that sweareth shall be cut off as on that side according to it.