²⁶ The LORD abhorreth the imaginations of the wicked; but pure words are pleasant to him. ²⁷ The covetous man rooteth up his own house; but whoso hateth rewards, shall live. ²⁸ A righteous man museth in his mind how to do good; but the mind of the ungodly imagineth how he may do harm.

Phrases

Greedy for Gain

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Cross References

Exodus 23:8

Thou shalt take no gifts, for gifts blind the seeing and pervert the words of the righteous.

Proverbs 1:19

These are the ways of all such as be covetous, that one would ravish another's life.

Deuteronomy 16:19

Wrest not the law, nor know any person, neither take any reward: for gifts blind the wise and pervert the words of the righteous.

Proverbs 11:29

Whoso maketh disquietness in his own house, he shall have wind for his heritage; and the fool shall be servant to the wise.

Jeremiah 17:11

The deceitful maketh a nest, but bringeth forth no young: He cometh by riches, but not righteously. In the midst of his life must he leave them behind him, and at the last be found a very fool.

Exodus 18:21

Moreover, seek out, among all the people, men of activity which fear God; and men that are true and hate covetousness: and make them heads over the people, captains over thousands, over hundreds, over fifty, and over ten.

Deuteronomy 7:26

Bring not therefore the Abomination to thine house, lest thou be a damned thing as it is: but utterly defy it and abhor it, for it is a thing that must be destroyed.

Joshua 6:18

And in any wise beware of the excommunicate things, lest ye make yourselves excommunicate. For if you take of the excommunicate things, so shall you make the host of Israel excommunicate and shall trouble it.

Joshua 7:11-12

Israel hath sinned and also transgressed my covenant, which I commanded them, and have taken of the excommunicate things, and have stolen and hid them, and also put them unto their own stuff:

Joshua 7:24-25

And Joshua took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the tongue of gold, and his sons and his daughters, his oxen, asses, sheep, his tent and all that he had, and all Israel with him, and brought them unto the valley of Achor.

1 Samuel 8:3-5

Nevertheless, his sons followed not his steps: but turned aside after lucre and took rewards, and perverted the right.

2 Kings 5:27

The leprosy therefore of Naaman cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed forever." And he went out from him a leper as white as snow.

Proverbs 11:19

Like as righteousness bringeth life; even so to cleave unto evil, bringeth death.

Proverbs 20:21

The heritage that cometh too hastily at the first, shall not be praised at the end.

Proverbs 28:16

Where the prince is without understanding, there is great oppression and wrong; but if he be such one as hateth covetousness, he shall long reign.

Proverbs 29:4

With true judgment the king setteth up the land; but if he be a man that taketh gifts, he turneth it upside down.

Isaiah 5:8-10

Woe be unto you that join one house to another, and bring one land so nigh unto another, that the poor can get no more ground. Will ye dwell upon the earth alone?

Isaiah 33:15-16

He that leadeth a godly life - say I - and speaketh the truth; He that abhorreth to do violence and deceit; he that keepeth his hand that he touch no reward; which stoppeth his ears, that he hear no counsel against the innocent; which holdeth down his eyes, that he see none evil.

Habakkuk 2:9-11

Woe unto him, that covetously gathereth evil gotten goods into his house: that he may set his nest on high, to escape from the power of misfortune.

Zechariah 5:3-4

Then said he unto me, 'This is the curse, that goeth forth over the whole earth: for all thieves shall be judged after this book, and all swearers shall be judged according to the same.