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Isaiah 56:11
And the dogs are greedy, they are never satisfied. And they are shepherds who have no understanding; They have all turned to their own way, Each one to his unjust gain, without exception.
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Jeremiah 6:13
“ For from the least of them to the greatest of them, Everyone is greedy for gain, And from the prophet to the priest Everyone deals falsely.
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Ephesians 5:3-5
But sexual immorality or any impurity or greed must not even be mentioned among you, as is proper among saints;and there must be no filthiness or foolish talk, or vulgar joking, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks.For this you know with certainty, that no sexually immoral or impure or greedy person, which amounts to an idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.
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Jeremiah 2:30
“ In vain I have struck your sons; They did not accept discipline. Your sword has devoured your prophets Like a destroying lion.
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Jeremiah 22:17
“ But your eyes and your heart Are intent only upon your own dishonest gain, And on shedding innocent blood, And on practicing oppression and extortion.”
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Jeremiah 8:10
Therefore I will give their wives to others, Their fields to new owners; Because from the least even to the greatest Everyone is greedy for gain; From the prophet even to the priest, Everyone practices deceit.
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Luke 12:15
But He said to them,“ Beware, and be on your guard against every form of greed; for not even when one is affluent does his life consist of his possessions.”
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Isaiah 1:4
Oh, sinful nation, People weighed down with guilt, Offspring of evildoers, Sons who act corruptly! They have abandoned the Lord, They have despised the Holy One of Israel, They have turned away from Him.
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Luke 15:14-16
Now when he had spent everything, a severe famine occurred in that country, and he began doing without.So he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.And he longed to have his fill of the carob pods that the pigs were eating, and no one was giving him anything.
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Isaiah 5:8-9
Woe to those who attach house to house and join field to field, Until there is no more room, And you alone are a landowner in the midst of the land!In my ears the Lord of armies has sworn,“ Many houses shall certainly become desolate, Even great and fine ones, without occupants.
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Ezekiel 33:31
And they come to you as people come, and sit before you as My people and hear your words, but they do not do them; for they do the lustful desires expressed by their mouth, and their heart follows their unlawful gain.
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Jeremiah 5:3
Lord, do Your eyes not look for honesty? You have struck them, But they did not weaken; You have consumed them, But they refused to accept discipline. They have made their faces harder than rock; They have refused to repent.
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Micah 2:2-3
They covet fields, so they seize them; And houses, so they take them. They exploit a man and his house, A person and his inheritance.Therefore this is what the Lord says:“ Behold, I am planning against this family a catastrophe From which you cannot remove your necks; And you will not walk haughtily, For it will be an evil time.
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Isaiah 8:17
And I will wait for the Lord who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob; I will wait eagerly for Him.
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2 Peter 2 3
and in their greed they will exploit you with false words; their judgment from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.
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1 Timothy 6 9
But those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap, and many foolish and harmful desires which plunge people into ruin and destruction.
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Ecclesiastes 6:9
What the eyes see is better than what the soul desires. This too is futility and striving after wind.
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Isaiah 9:13
Yet the people do not turn back to Him who struck them, Nor do they seek the Lord of armies.
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Colossians 3:5
Therefore, treat the parts of your earthly body as dead to sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which amounts to idolatry.
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2 Peter 2 14
having eyes full of adultery that never cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having hearts trained in greed, accursed children;
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Isaiah 45:15
Truly, You are a God who hides Himself, God of Israel, Savior!