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Psalms 94:4
They pour out arrogant words; all the evildoers boast.
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Jeremiah 22:17
But you have eyes and a heart for nothing except your own dishonest profit, shedding innocent blood and committing extortion and oppression.
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Micah 6:10-12
Are there still the treasures of wickedness and the accursed short measure in the house of the wicked?Can I excuse wicked scales or bags of deceptive weights?For the wealthy of the city are full of violence, and its residents speak lies; the tongues in their mouths are deceitful.
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Luke 12:19
Then I’ll say to myself,“ You have many goods stored up for many years. Take it easy; eat, drink, and enjoy yourself.”’
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Psalms 49:6
They trust in their wealth and boast of their abundant riches.
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Zechariah 11:5-8
Those who buy them slaughter them but are not punished. Those who sell them say,‘ Blessed be the LORD because I have become rich!’ Even their own shepherds have no compassion for them.Indeed, I will no longer have compassion on the inhabitants of the land”— this is the LORD’s declaration.“ Instead, I will turn everyone over to his neighbor and his king. They will devastate the land, and I will not rescue it from their hand.”So I shepherded the flock intended for slaughter, the oppressed of the flock. I took two staffs, calling one Favor and the other Union, and I shepherded the flock.In one month I got rid of three shepherds. I became impatient with them, and they also detested me.
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Psalms 49:11-13
Their graves are their permanent homes, their dwellings from generation to generation, though they have named estates after themselves.But despite his assets, mankind will not last; he is like the animals that perish.This is the way of those who are arrogant, and of their followers, who approve of their words. Selah
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Psalms 5:6
You destroy those who tell lies; the LORD abhors violent and treacherous people.
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Isaiah 37:23
Who is it you have mocked and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel!
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Hosea 12:7-8
A merchant loves to extort with dishonest scales in his hands.But Ephraim thinks,“ How rich I have become; I made it all myself. In all my earnings, no one can find any iniquity in me that I can be punished for!”
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1 Samuel 23 21
“ May you be blessed by the LORD,” replied Saul,“ for you have shown concern for me.
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Romans 1:29
They are filled with all unrighteousness, evil, greed, and wickedness. They are full of envy, murder, quarrels, deceit, and malice. They are gossips,
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Proverbs 28:4
Those who reject the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law pit themselves against them.
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Job 31:24
If I placed my confidence in gold or called fine gold my trust,
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Exodus 15:9
The enemy said:“ I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil. My desire will be gratified at their expense. I will draw my sword; my hand will destroy them.”
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Isaiah 57:17
Because of his sinful greed I was angry, so I struck him; I was angry and hid; but he went on turning back to the desires of his heart.
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Luke 12:15
He then told them,“ Watch out and be on guard against all greed, because one’s life is not in the abundance of his possessions.”
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2 Timothy 3 2-2 Timothy 3 4
For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, proud, demeaning, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, without love for what is good,traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
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Leviticus 26:30
I will destroy your high places, cut down your shrines, and heap your lifeless bodies on the lifeless bodies of your idols; I will reject you.
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Romans 1:32
Although they know God’s just sentence— that those who practice such things deserve to die— they not only do them, but even applaud others who practice them.
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1 Timothy 6 9-1 Timothy 6 10
But those who want to be rich fall into temptation, a trap, and many foolish and harmful desires, which plunge people into ruin and destruction.For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, and by craving it, some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.
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1 John 2 15
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
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Ephesians 5:5
For know and recognize this: Every sexually immoral or impure or greedy person, who is an idolater, does not have an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
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Colossians 3:5
Therefore, put to death what belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry.
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James 4:13
Come now, you who say,“ Today or tomorrow we will travel to such and such a city and spend a year there and do business and make a profit.”
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Matthew 26:15-16
and said,“ What are you willing to give me if I hand him over to you?” So they weighed out thirty pieces of silver for him.And from that time he started looking for a good opportunity to betray him.
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Psalms 52:1
Why boast about evil, you hero! God’s faithful love is constant.
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Luke 16:14-15
The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, were listening to all these things and scoffing at him.And he told them,“ You are the ones who justify yourselves in the sight of others, but God knows your hearts. For what is highly admired by people is revolting in God’s sight.
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Psalms 35:21
They open their mouths wide against me and say,“ Aha, aha! We saw it!”
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Isaiah 10:7-11
But this is not what he intends; this is not what he plans. It is his intent to destroy and to cut off many nations.For he says,“ Aren’t all my commanders kings?Isn’t Calno like Carchemish? Isn’t Hamath like Arpad? Isn’t Samaria like Damascus?As my hand seized the kingdoms of worthless images, kingdoms whose idols exceeded those of Jerusalem and Samaria,and as I did to Samaria and its worthless images will I not also do to Jerusalem and its idols?”
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Psalms 49:18
Though he blesses himself during his lifetime— and you are acclaimed when you do well for yourself—
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1 Corinthians 6 10
no thieves, greedy people, drunkards, verbally abusive people, or swindlers will inherit God’s kingdom.
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Habakkuk 2:9
Woe to him who dishonestly makes wealth for his house to place his nest on high, to escape the grasp of disaster!
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Deuteronomy 32:19
When the LORD saw this, he despised them, angered by his sons and daughters.
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Deuteronomy 29:19
When someone hears the words of this oath, he may consider himself exempt, thinking,‘ I will have peace even though I follow my own stubborn heart.’ This will lead to the destruction of the well-watered land as well as the dry land.
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Psalms 73:8-9
They mock, and they speak maliciously; they arrogantly threaten oppression.They set their mouths against heaven, and their tongues strut across the earth.
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James 4:16
But as it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.