When I saw among the spoils a beautiful cloak from Shinar, two hundred shekels of silver, and a bar of gold weighing fifty shekels, I coveted them and took them. They are hidden in the ground inside my tent, with the silver underneath.”
Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.
Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
Turn my eyes away from worthless things; revive me with Your word.
And He said to them, “Watch out! Guard yourselves against every form of greed, for one’s life does not consist in the ab
You must burn up the images of their gods; do not covet the silver and gold that is on them or take it for yourselves, o
They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of Beor, who loved the wages of wickedn
One evening David got up from his bed and strolled around on the roof of the palace. And from the roof he saw a woman ba
A stingy man hastens after wealth and does not know that poverty awaits him.
Some time after these events, Naboth the Jezreelite owned a vineyard in Jezreel next to the palace of Ahab king of Samar
the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they took as wives whomever they chose.
When the woman saw that the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eyes, and that it was desirable for obtaining wis
Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, “Look, my master has spared this Aramean, Naaman, by not accepting w
Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, for God has said: “Never will I leave you
Those who want to be rich, however, fall into temptation and become ensnared by many foolish and harmful desires that pl
For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure, or greedy person (that is, an idolater) has any inheritance in the king
“I have made a covenant with my eyes. How then could I gaze with desire at a virgin?
You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his manservant or maidservant, o
But among you, as is proper among the saints, there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impu
Woe to him who builds his house by unjust gain, to place his nest on high and escape the hand of disaster!
Do not gaze at wine while it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly.
For you said, “We have made a covenant with death; we have fashioned an agreement with Sheol. When the overwhelming scou
His kingdom began in Babylon, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
There is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, and nothing hidden that will not be made known.
At this, David sent orders to Joab: “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” So Joab sent him to David.
But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
Woe to those who dig deep to hide their plans from the LORD. In darkness they do their works and say, “Who sees us, and
Guard your heart with all diligence, for from it flow springs of life.
Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and gre
Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is
What then shall we say? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed, I would not have been mindful of sin if not for the law.