Thematic Bible: Avaricious men, examples of
Thematic Bible
greed » Avaricious men, examples of » Judas
and said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver. And from that time he sought opportunity to betray him.
This he said, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief and had the bag and would take from what was put therein.
greed » Avaricious men, examples of » Achan
When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment and two hundred shekels of silver and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.
And these anxious dogs are insatiable, and even the shepherds did not know enough to understand: they all look to their own ways, each one for his gain, from his quarter.
greed » Avaricious men, examples of » The jews
the heads thereof judge for bribes, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet they come near unto the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? No evil can come upon us.
desiring that there be dust of the earth upon the head of the poor, and to twist the way of the humble: and the man and his father have gone in unto the same maid, profaning my holy name:
greed » Avaricious men, examples of » The people of tyre
And Tyre built herself a stronghold and heaped up silver as the dust and fine gold as the mire of the streets.
greed » Avaricious men, examples of » balaam
who forsaking the right way have erred, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness,
greed » Avaricious men, examples of » The masters of the philippian damsel
And when her masters saw that the hope of their gains was gone, they caught Paul and Silas and drew them into the marketplace unto the rulers
greed » Avaricious men, examples of » Governor felix
He hoped also that money should have been given him from Paul, that he might loose him; therefore he sent for him many times and communed with him.