For the music director; a well-written song by David. It was written when Doeg the Edomite went and informed Saul: "David has arrived at the home of Ahimelech." Why do you boast about your evil plans, O powerful man? God's loyal love protects me all day long!

They mock and say evil things; they proudly threaten violence.

They spew out threats and speak defiantly; all the evildoers boast.

The enemy said, 'I will chase, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my desire will be satisfied on them. I will draw my sword, my hand will destroy them.'

But he does not agree with this, his mind does not reason this way, for his goal is to destroy, and to eliminate many nations.

Whom have you taunted and hurled insults at? At whom have you shouted and looked so arrogantly? At the Holy One of Israel!

Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go into this or that town and spend a year there and do business and make a profit."

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Their grave becomes their permanent residence, their eternal dwelling place. They name their lands after themselves,

When such a person hears the words of this oath he secretly blesses himself and says, "I will have peace though I continue to walk with a stubborn spirit." This will destroy the watered ground with the parched.

Saul replied, "May you be blessed by the Lord, for you have had compassion on me.

"If I have put my confidence in gold or said to pure gold, 'You are my security!'

Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law contend with them.

The businessmen love to cheat; they use dishonest scales.

Those who buy them slaughter them and are not held guilty; those who sell them say, 'Blessed be the Lord, for I am rich.' Their own shepherds have no compassion for them.

And I will say to myself, "You have plenty of goods stored up for many years; relax, eat, drink, celebrate!"'

They are filled with every kind of unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice. They are rife with envy, murder, strife, deceit, hostility. They are gossips,

For people will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

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I was angry because of their sinful greed; I attacked them and angrily rejected them, yet they remained disobedient and stubborn.

But you are always thinking and looking for ways to increase your wealth by dishonest means. Your eyes and your heart are set on killing some innocent person and committing fraud and oppression.

"I will not overlook, O sinful house, the dishonest gain you have hoarded away, or the smaller-than-standard measure I hate so much.

The one who builds his house by unjust gain is as good as dead. He does this so he can build his nest way up high and escape the clutches of disaster.

and said, "What will you give me to betray him into your hands?" So they set out thirty silver coins for him.

Then he said to them, "Watch out and guard yourself from all types of greed, because one's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions."

The Pharisees (who loved money) heard all this and ridiculed him.

thieves, the greedy, drunkards, the verbally abusive, and swindlers will not inherit the kingdom of God.

For you can be confident of this one thing: that no person who is immoral, impure, or greedy (such a person is an idolater) has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

So put to death whatever in your nature belongs to the earth: sexual immorality, impurity, shameful passion, evil desire, and greed which is idolatry.

Those who long to be rich, however, stumble into temptation and a trap and many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.

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You destroy liars; the Lord despises violent and deceitful people.

I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars, and I will stack your dead bodies on top of the lifeless bodies of your idols. I will abhor you.

But the Lord took note and despised them because his sons and daughters enraged him.

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Saul replied, "May you be blessed by the Lord, for you have had compassion on me.