Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

Boasteth

Bible References

Boasteth

James 4:13
Go to now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we shall journey to such a city and spend a year there, and trade and make money,"

And blesseth, etc

Luke 12:19
"'And I will say to my soul, "'Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years! Take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.'
Romans 1:29
They were overflowing with every kind of iniquity, depravity, greed, and malice. They were full of envy, murder, quarreling, deceit, and malignity.
2 Timothy 3:2
For men will be selfish, mercenary, boastful, haughty, blasphemous, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, irreligious,
1 John 2:15
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Whom

Matthew 26:15
went to the chief priests and said, "What are you ready to give me for betraying him to you?" So they weighed him thirty pieces of silver;
Luke 12:15
And to the people he said, "Take heed and guard yourselves from all covetousness, for a man's life does not consist in the abundance of the things which he possesses."
Luke 16:14
Now the Pharisees who loved money listened to all this and they jeered at him.
1 Corinthians 6:10
or thieves, or avaricious men, or drunkards, or foul-mouthed men, or extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.
Ephesians 5:5
For be well assured that no one guilty of fornication or impurity or covetousness which is idolatry, has any heritage in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
Colossians 3:5
So slay your baser inclinations. fornication, impurity, appetite, unnatural desires, and the greed which is idolatry.
1 Timothy 6:9
Those who desire to be rich fall into the snares of temptation and many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.