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Covetousness
Comes from the heart - Mr 7:22,23
Engrosses the heart - Eze 33:31; 2Pe 2:14
Is idolatry - Eph 5:5; Col 3:5
Is the root of all evil - 1Ti 6:10
Is never satisfied - Ec 5:10; Hab 2:5
IS INCONSISTENT
- In saints
- Eph 5:3; Heb 13:5- Specially in ministers
- 1Ti 3:3LEADS TO
- Injustice and oppression
- Pr 28:20; Mic 2:2- Foolish and hurtful lusts
- 1Ti 6:9- Departure from the faith
- 1Ti 6:10- Lying
- 2Ki 5:22-25- Murder
- Pr 1:18,19; Eze 22:12- Theft
- Jos 7:21- Poverty
- Pr 28:22- Misery
- 1Ti 6:10- Domestic affliction
- Pr 15:27Abhorred by God - Ps 10:3
Forbidden - Ex 20:17
A characteristic of the wicked - Ro 1:29
A characteristic of the slothful - Pr 21:26
Commended by the wicked alone - Ps 10:3
Hated by saints - Ex 18:21; Ac 20:33
To be mortified by saints - Col 3:5
Woe denounced against - Isa 5:8; Hab 2:9
Punishment of - Job 20:15; Isa 57:17; Jer 22:17-19; Mic 2:2,3
Excludes from heaven - 1Co 6:10; Eph 5:5
Beware of - Lu 12:15
Avoid those guilty of - 1Co 5:11
Pray against - Ps 119:36
Reward of those who hate - Pr 28:16
Shall abound in the last days - 2Ti 3:2; 2Pe 2:1-3
Exemplified
- Laban
- Ge 31:41- Achan
- Jos 7:21- Eli's sons
- 1Sa 2:12-14- Samuel's sons
- 1Sa 8:3- Saul
- 1Sa 15:9,19- Ahab
- 1Ki 21:2-4- Gehazi
- 2Ki 5:20-24- Nobles of the Jews
- Ne 5:7; Isa 1:23- Jewish people
- Isa 56:11; Jer 6:13- Babylon
- Jer 51:13- Young man
- Mt 19:22- Judas
- Mt 26:14,15; Joh 12:6- Pharisees
- Lu 16:14- Ananias &c
- Ac 5:1-10- Felix
- Ac 24:26- Balaam
- 2Pe 2:15; Jude 1:11 Next Topic (Creation)