Psalm 10:3

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Summary

Psalm 10:3

For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.

Boasteth

James 4:13

And blesseth, etc

Whom

1 Timothy 6:9

Bible References

Boasteth

As for you, who affirm, "to-day, or, to-morrow we will go to such a city, we will stay there a whole year, there we will traffic, and find our account."

And blesseth, etc

then I will say to my soul, soul, you have many enjoyments in reserve for a number of years; take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.

they were full of all injustice, fornication, mischief, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, contention, fraud, malignity;

for men will be selfish, avaricious, vain, proud, slanderers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful,

Love not the world, nor let worldly things engage your affections. he that is worldly affected is a stranger to divine love.

Whom

and said, what will ye give me, and I will deliver him to you? and they promised him thirty pieces of silver.

then he said to them, take care to be clear of all avarice: for the enjoyment of life does not depend upon the having large possessions.

The Pharisees too, who were noted for avarice, heard all this discourse, and treated him with derision.

nor thieves, nor misers, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor raparees, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

for this you know, that no licentious or dissolute person, no lewd libertine, that is, an idolater, hath any part in the kingdom of Christ, and of God.

Mortify therefore your sensual appetites, fornication, impurity, irregular passions, wicked desires, and that licentiousness practised by idolaters.

themselves to temptations and snares, and to many foolish noxious passions, which plunge men into ruin and perdition. for the love of money is the root of all evil: