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| [[File:ring2.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Accepting the ring of power from a [[Benefactors|Benefactor]] who [[Exercises authority]] over your neighbor by establishing a [[One purse]] system of [[Corban]] for your [[Welfare]] is a [[Covetous Practices|Covetous Practice]] that makes you and your soul [[Merchandise]] and [[Curse children|curses your children]]. Accepting the [[Benefits]] is like [[Biting one another]] and will lead you to becoming [[Workers of Iniquity]] even though you may think or even say you believe in Christ.]]
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| == Covet ==
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| To covet is to yearn, to possess or have (something). From Old French cuveitier, based on Latin cupiditas. Covetous means having or showing a great desire to possess something, typically something belonging to someone else.
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| Synonyms of COVETOUS. Greedy, acquisitive, grasping, avaricious. While covetous implies inordinate desire for especially material possessions, greed implies lack of restrain in that desire. Grasping adds to covetous and greedy an implication of selfishness, and it often suggests unfair or ruthless means to acquire what is desired. Avaricious strongly suggests stinginess.
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| :Wanting or desiring a nice car or more food or a great wife does not really qualify as "[[covet]]ing". [[Covet]]ing is wanting your neighbor's nice car or his food or his wife. That is amoral. Amoral is the absence of morals. The amoral actions of society are the result of a lack of moral character. Moral character is the result of the practice of [[social virtues]]. We know nature abhors a vacuum so if [[society]] does not regularly engage in [[charitable practices]] it will find itself engaged in [[covetous practices]] thinking them to be moral. They will call evil good and good evil. | | {{Template:Religion}} |
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| == The Effects of Covetousness == | | ==Footnotes== |
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| Desiring the things like what your neighbor has is not coveting. Coveting is wanting what your neighbor actually has, to the point you are comfortable with your neighbor losing some of what is his if it means you get what you desire.
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| The effects of covetousness on the part of the people is always a loss of freedom.
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| <blockquote>'' “The real [[Perfect law of liberty|destroyers of the liberties]] of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and [[benefits]].” —[[Plutarch]]''</blockquote>
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| [[File:Polybius.jpg|left|200px|thumb|[[Polybius]] ]]
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| '''Polybius believed all [[Democracy|democracies]] fail.'''
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| <blockquote>'' "The masses continue with an appetite for [[benefits]] and the habit of receiving them by way of a rule of force and violence. The people, having grown accustomed to feed at the expense of others and to depend for their livelihood on the property of others... institute the rule of violence;<Ref>Matthew 11:12 And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force. </Ref> and now uniting their forces massacre, banish, and plunder,<Ref>Luke 16:16 The law and the prophets [were] until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it.</Ref> until they degenerate again into perfect savages and find once more a master and monarch." — Polybius''</blockquote>
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| Even Lincoln said in his speech at Edwardsville, Ill., Sept. 13, 1858, ''"Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you."''
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| The authoritarian state uses force and violence to become the [[Benefactors]] of the people. They force one class of citizen to provide for another. Christ forbid that type of government. He told us not to make the [http://www.hisholychurch.org/sermon/fatherabba.php Fathers of the earth] our [[Benefactors]].
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| Even though this principle was well known in history, still we see in Luke 16:16, ''"The law and the prophets [were] until John: since that time the [[Kingdom of God|kingdom of God]] is preached, and every man presseth into it."''
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| The word "presseth" appears twice in the Bible, and both times it is describing the contrast of John's teaching to what were the common aspects of welfare at that time.
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| We see the same word in Matthew 11:12, ''"And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force."''
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| Here it is translated "suffereth violence". It is from the word ''biazo'' <Ref>971 ~βιάζω~ biazo \@bee-ad’-zo\@ from 970; v AV-suffer violence 1, press 1; 2 1) to use force, to apply force 2) to force, inflict violence on</Ref>
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| John spoke about how you were to provide for the needy people of society with [[Pure Religion]] that did not depend upon what we see called the [[World]]. He is talking about those Jesus called the ''"[[Fathers]] of the earth"'' or the ''"[[Benefactors]] who exercise authority"''. One way is by forced contributions and the other is by charity. When the people asked John "... What shall we do then?"
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| {{#ev:youtube|Dq2TsDbylUg|300|right|Published on Dec 1, 2014
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| There is only one Commandment that prohibits a thought, and it is this: "Do not covet." Why does the [[Bible]], which is preoccupied with behavior, legislate a thought? The foundation of all [[Socialism]] is coveting your neighbors stuff. [http://www.prageruniversity.com Prager University ] Time 4:31}}
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| <blockquote>'' "He answereth and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do likewise." (Luke 3:11)''</blockquote>
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| There were riots at the time of Christ, and they were put down violently by Pilate.
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| Why?
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| The people complained about their new social welfare system called [[Corban]] that was started under Herod the Great. They claimed the funds were being pilfered by the government and used on other civic projects, such as an aqueduct into Jerusalem.
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| == The Great Society Schemes ==
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| Since the days of [[Mark of Cain|Cain]] and [[Nimrod]], men have plotted and planned for power. All governments expand their power or influence over the people in schemes with offers of gifts, gratuities, and [[benefits]],<Ref>“The real destroyers of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and [[benefits]].” [[Plutarch]], 2000 years ago.</Ref> which gives government an increase in authority and compels a corresponding decrease in the individual’s right to choose. What they will contribute, to whom and for what purpose becomes the province of the government, and the “Will of the People” is imposed upon the people by the [[Benefactors|benefactors]] chosen for the people.
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| [[Herod]] the Great had a grand scheme of a vast membership in a social [[welfare]] scheme called [[Corban]].<Ref>[[Mark 7]]:13 “Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.”</Ref> You joined with a ceremony of ritual [[Baptism|baptism]] after filing an application for membership with the administering “scribe”.<Ref>Scribe is from the Greek grammateus meaning “a clerk, scribe, esp. a public servant, secretary, recorder, whose office and influence differed in different states”</Ref>. Payment of prescribed fees was required and annual accounting of what you paid or did not pay was made available to the proper authorities.
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| With annual contributions collected and recorded by the scribes, this system of individual sacrifice to support the needy of society became popular with many people who were jealous and envious of the rich, or just covetous of their neighbor’s goods. With guaranteed entitlements and forced contributions, the apathy and avarice of the people flourished.
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| Members were given a white stone as a form of national ID<Ref>“The missionaries… with their... white stones, would come back with the same wallets full of money, in foreign currency. Once put into Jewish currency by the money-changers [porters of the temple], it would be stored in vaults ...[[Herod]]’s scheme of initiation into a new form of Judaism was immensely successful....” Jesus and the Riddle of the Dead Sea Scrolls by Barbara Thiering, Harper Collins: 1992</Ref> and Herod was able to expand his hope of a kingdom of God on earth by this religious system of social security ([[Corban]]) which provided for a statutory enforcement and collection from membership in the form of a tax.
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| [[File:aqueduct.jpg|right|thumb|250px|The actual carved stone used in the aqueduct that brought water into Jerusalem. Using [[Corban|social security funds]] for this government project enraged the people to riot.]]
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| Pilate "... used the sacred treasure of the temple, called ''[[Corban|corban]]'' (qorban), to pay for bringing water into Jerusalem by an aqueduct. A crowd came together and clamored against him..."<Ref>20The Aqueduct- Josephus, War 2.175-177, Antiq 18.60-62.</Ref> because those funds were for their individual social [[welfare]], and the people complained.
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| Few understood that what should have been for their welfare had brought them into [[Bondage|bondage]], though they had been warned centuries before in the sacred text.<Ref>22“And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:” [[Romans 11]]:9. [[Exodus 20]]:17, [[Exodus 23]]:32, [[Exodus 34]]:12...; [[Proverbs 1]]:10, 23:1...; [[Romans 13]]:9, [[Mark 7]]:22, [[Matthew 5]]:34, [[James 5]]:12, [[2 Peter 2]]:3</Ref> Paul and others repeated that warning for the first century Church.<Ref>Episkeptomai “ to look upon or after ... have care for, provide for:”</Ref> But [[Modern Christians]] are oblivious to the truth of this system because they hire pastors who tickle their ears with Christian fables.
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| Why do I say this [[Social Security|social security]] system was religious? Because:
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| <blockquote>'' “[[Pure Religion|Pure religion]] and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit<Ref>[[Matthew 11]]:12 “And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence [biazo=to use force, to apply force, violence], and the violent [biastes] take it by force [harpazo = to seize, carry off by force].” Luke 16:16 “ The law and the prophets [were] until John: since that time the [[Kingdom of God]] is preached, and every man [all] presseth [biazo] into it.”</Ref> the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep himself unspotted from the [[world]].” ([[James 1]]:27)''</blockquote>
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| [[John the Baptist]] offered a similar plan of social welfare to collect the contributions of his people, but without the use of force. <Ref> [[Matthew 11]]:12 “And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence [biazo=to use force, to apply force, violence], and the violent [biastes] take it by force [harpazo = to seize, carry off by force].” Luke 16:16 “ The law and the prophets [were] until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man [all] presseth [biazo] into it.”</Ref> His plan was based on free will offerings like ancient Israel<Ref>[[Exodus 35]]:29, 36:3, Lev. 7:16, 22:18-23, 23:38, Nu. 15:3, 29:39, Deut. 12:6, 12:17, 16:10, 23:23, 2 Chron. 31:14, 35:8, [[Ezra 1]]:4, 3:5, 7:13-16, 8:28, Psalms 54:6, 68:9, 110:3, 119:108, Ezek. 46:12, [[Hosea 14]]:4, Amos 4:5.</Ref> when it was still a Republic.<Ref>[[Luke 3]]:11 “He answereth and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do likewise.”</Ref> Christ objected to the plan offered by Herod and the Pharisees,<Ref>The [[Corban]] of the [[Pharisees]], http://www.hisholychurch.org/sermon/corban.php</Ref> not only because it weakened the character of the people, and therefore society as a whole, but it also violated the precepts of God found in the Ten Commandments.
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| [[Jesus]] preached a system of social welfare that operated under the [[Perfect law of liberty|perfect law of liberty]]<Ref>James 1:25 “But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth [therein], he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.”</Ref> by faith, hope and charity.<Ref>1 Corinthians 13:13 “And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these [is] charity.”</Ref> Christians stood fast in the liberty of Christ <Ref>Galatians 5:1 “Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.” </Ref> and cared for each other through their own system of social welfare managed by the Church. <Ref>“And they who are well to do, and willing, give what each thinks fit; and what is collected is deposited with the president, who succours the orphans and widows and those who, through sickness or any other cause, are in want, and those who are in bonds and the strangers sojourning among us, and in a word takes care of all who are in need.” The Church government in 150 AD are described in Justin’s First Apology:</Ref> The Church in those days actually understood the Gospel of the Kingdom appointed by Christ, and they would never send their people to the men of government that called themselves benefactors but exercised authority one over the other in opposition to His specific instructions.<Ref>[[Luke 22]]:25 “And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors. But it shall not be so among you:” [[Matthew 20]]:25, Mark 10:42.</Ref>
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| The early [[Church]] called people to repentance from that system of [[Corban]], and the people were brought into a new [[Baptism|baptism]] of John. This was not just some meaningless ritual. They would no longer covet their neighbor’s goods through the agency of [[Herod]]’s [[socialist]] government nor [[Rome]]’s [[Bread and circuses|free bread]] and its extensive welfare state. They learned to care for one another in a network of love and service.<Ref> Join the '''Living [[Network]]'''.</ref>
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| '''[[Rome]]''' and [[Jerusalem]] would soon falter and fail under the weight of their own corruption. Christians hearing the fullness of the [[Gospel of the Kingdom]] preached by John and Christ formed a new society that would survive and prosper in true faith during that decline and fall of the Roman Empire.
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| [[Social Security]] schemes in every country today are the antitheses of the [[Corban]] of which Christ told them it was to ''make the word of God to none effect''. The [[Corban]] of the [[Pharisees]] was identical to the unrighteous [[Mammon]] mentioned by [[Christ]], which will ''fail''.<Ref>Luke 16:9 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.</Ref> When it fails, what will you do if you have not been seeking the [[Kingdom of God]] and His righteousness nor attending to the {{Template:Weightier matters}}.
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| [[Freewill offerings]] in support of the [[Welfare|welfare]] of the people's needs has been a [[Charity|charitable]] theme of the [[Bible]] from [[Abraham]] to [[Moses]] and from [[John the Baptist]] and [[Jesus]] to [[Paul the Apostle|Paul]] and Peter.
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| == Links to articles on coveting ==
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| '''The Nicolaitan who God hates?'''<Br>
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| Because they '''covet''' their neighbor's goods<Br>
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| http://www.hisholychurch.org/sermon/nicolaity.php
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| '''Doom, Gloom, and Democracy''' <Br>
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| The real destroyer is our own '''covetousness''' <Br>
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| http://www.hisholychurch.org/news/articles/doomdemocracy.php<Br>
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| Appeared first on NewsWithViews 4-30-09
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| '''The Covetous Prayers'''<Br>
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| From the book The Higher Liberty, Sec. 42<Br>
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| http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/THL/thecovetous.php
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| '''To Heal Our Land'''<Br>
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| The Hateful Connection, The Unrighteous Corban, The Indictment<Br>
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| http://www.hisholychurch.org/sermon/healland.php
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| '''To Enslave a Nation'''<Br>
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| How do you enslave a whole nation, even the whole world?<Br>
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| http://www.hisholychurch.org/sermon/enslave.php
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| '''The Corban of the Pharisees'''
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| It made the word of God to none effect.
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| Is our Corban making the word of God to none effect today?
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| http://www.hisholychurch.org/sermon/corban.php
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| '''Baptism, the Ritual and the Jurisdiction'''
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| Are Christians repenting and getting baptized or are they just all wet?
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| http://www.hisholychurch.org/sermon/baptismjura.php
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| == Bible quotes on Coveting ==
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| Proverbs Chapter 23 verses 1-8
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| : 1 When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what [is] before thee: <Br>
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| : 2 And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.<Br>
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| : 3 Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.<Br>
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| : 4 Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.<Br>
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| : 5 Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.<Br>
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| : 8 The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.
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| 2 Peter 2:3 ¶ 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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| 2 Peter 2:14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with '''covetous''' practices; cursed children:
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| : Psalms 69:22 Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.
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| : Romans 11:9 And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:
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| Exodus 18:21 Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating '''covetousness'''; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:
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| Exodus 20:17 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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| Deuteronomy 5:21 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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| Joshua 7:21 When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I '''coveted''' them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.
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| Psalms 10:3 For the wicked boasteth of his heart’s desire, and blesseth the '''covetous''', whom the LORD abhorreth.
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| Psalms 119:36 Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to '''covetousness'''.
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| Proverbs 21:26 He '''coveteth''' greedily all the day long: but the righteous giveth and spareth not.
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| Proverbs 28:16 The prince that wanteth understanding is also a great oppressor: but he that hateth '''covetousness''' shall prolong his days.
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| Isaiah 57:17 For the iniquity of his '''covetousness''' was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.
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| Jeremiah 6:13 For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to '''covetousness'''; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
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| Jeremiah 8:10 Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall inherit them: for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to '''covetousness''', from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
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| Jeremiah 22:17 But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy '''covetousness''', and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.
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| Jeremiah 51:13 O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy '''covetousness'''.
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| Ezekiel 33:31 And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their '''covetousness'''.
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| Micah 2:2 And they '''covet''' fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
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| Habakkuk 2:9 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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| Mark 7:22 Thefts, '''covetousness''', wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.
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| Luke 12:15 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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| Luke 16:14 And the Pharisees also, who were '''covetous''', heard all these things: and they derided him.
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| Acts 20:33 I have '''coveted''' no man’s silver, or gold, or apparel.
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| Romans 1:29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, '''covetousness''', maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
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| Romans 7:7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not '''covet'''.
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| Romans 13:9 For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not '''covet'''; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
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| 1 Corinthians 5:10 Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the '''covetous''', or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.
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| 1 Corinthians 5:11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or '''covetous''', or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
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| 1 Corinthians 6:10 Nor thieves, nor '''covetous''', nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, <U>shall inherit the kingdom of God</U>.
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| 2 Corinthians 9:5 Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your bounty, whereof ye had notice before, that the same might be ready, as a matter of bounty, and not as of '''covetousness'''.
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| Ephesians 5:3 But fornication, and all uncleanness, or '''covetousness''', let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
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| Ephesians 5:5 For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor '''covetous man''', <U>who is an idolater</U>, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
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| Colossians 3:5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and '''covetousness''', <U>which is idolatry</U>:
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| 1 Thessalonians 2:5 For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of '''covetousness'''; God is witness:
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| 1 Timothy 3:3 Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not '''covetous''';
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| 1 Timothy 6:10 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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| 2 Timothy 3:2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, '''covetous''', boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
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| Hebrews 13:5 Let your conversation be without '''covetousness'''; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
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| == Related ideas ==
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| Seeking the [[kingdom of God]] and His [[righteousness]] is the antitheses of [[covetous practices]].
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