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1 Timothy 6:10
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For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
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Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.
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He coveteth greedily all the day long: but the righteous giveth and spareth not.
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Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour's wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbour's.
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Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
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Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!
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No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
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No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
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And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.
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And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.
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And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.
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Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
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But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
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So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
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If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?
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He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
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Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
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Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
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I have coveted no man's silver, or gold, or apparel.
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And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
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He that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife: but he that putteth his trust in the LORD shall be made fat.
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He that hasteth to be rich hath an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him.
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He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live.
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