Thematic Bible: Rapacity of


Thematic Bible




He who is a hired hand and not a shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and runs away; and the wolf snatches them and scatters them.

For I know that after my departure, vicious wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock.

The Lord said to him, "Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness.

But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you do not consume one another.

You lust, and do not have. You kill, covet, and cannot obtain. You fight and make war. You do not have, because you do not ask.

who devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers: these will receive greater condemnation."

"But when the farmers saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, 'This is the heir. Let us kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.'