Thematic Bible: Avaricious men, examples of
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greed » Avaricious men, examples of » Judas
and said, "What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you?" And they appointed unto him thirty pieces of silver. And from that time he sought opportunity to betray him.
This said he, not that he cared for the poor: but because he was a thief, and kept the bag, and bare that which was given.
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greed » Avaricious men, examples of » Achan
I saw among the spoil a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundredth sicles of silver, and a tongue of gold of fifty sicles weight: and I coveted them, and I took them. And behold they lie hid in the earth in my tent and the silver thereunder."
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They are shameless dogs, that be never satisfied. The shepherds also in like manner have no understanding, but every man turneth his own way, everyone after his own covetousness, with all his power.
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greed » Avaricious men, examples of » The jews
O ye judges, ye give sentence for gifts; O ye priests, ye teach for lucre; O ye prophets, ye prophesy for money. Yet will they be taken as those that hold upon God, and say, "Is not the LORD among us? Tush, there can no misfortune happen us."
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They tread upon poor men's heads, in the dust of the earth, and crook the ways of the meek. The son and the father go to the harlot, to dishonour my holy name,
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greed » Avaricious men, examples of » The people of tyre
Tyre shall make herself strong, and heap up silver as the sand, and gold as the clay of the streets.
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greed » Avaricious men, examples of » balaam
and have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, which loved the reward of unrighteousness:
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greed » Avaricious men, examples of » The masters of the philippian damsel
And when her master and mistress saw that the hope of their gains was gone, they caught Paul and Silas, and drew them into the marketplace unto the rulers,
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greed » Avaricious men, examples of » Governor felix
He hoped also that money should have been given him of Paul that he might loose him, wherefore he called him the oftener, and communed with him.
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