Covetousness

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 vanity - Ps 39:6; Ec 4:8

IS INCONSISTENT

• In saints
- Eph 5:3; Heb 13:5
• Specially in ministers
- 1Ti 3:3

LEADS 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 15:27

Abhorred 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
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