Covetousness

How Nave’s arranged it

• General scriptures concerning Jude 1:11Exodus 18:21Exodus 20:17Deuteronomy 5:21Nehemiah 5:7Job 20:15Job 31:24Job 31:25Job 31:28Psalms 10:3Psalms 119:36Proverbs 1:19Proverbs 11:24Proverbs 11:26Proverbs 15:27Proverbs 21:25Proverbs 21:26Proverbs 22:16Proverbs 23:4Proverbs 23:5Proverbs 30:8
• See Avarice
• See Rich
• See Riches
• See Worldliness
• INSTANCES OF
• Eve, in desiring the forbidden fruitGenesis 3:6
• Lot, in choosing the plain of the JordanGenesis 13:10–13
• Laban
• In giving Rebekah to be Isaac's wifeGenesis 24:29–51
• In deceiving Jacob when he served him seven years for RachelGenesis 29:15–30
• In deceiving Jacob in wagesGenesis 31:7Genesis 31:15Genesis 31:41Genesis 31:42

The passages, in Bible order (136)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Genesis 3:6

   When the woman saw that the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eyes, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom, she took the fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 3:61 voice

   “That the Lord then was manifestly coming to His own things, and was sustaining them by means of that creation which is supported by Himself, and was making a recapitulation of that disobedience which had occurred in connection with a tree, through the obedience which was [exhibited by Himself when He hung] upon a tree, [the effects] also of that deception being done away with, by which that virgin Eve, who was already espoused to a man, was unhappily misled,-was happily announced, through means of the truth [spoken] by the angel to the Virgin Mary, who was [also espoused] to a man.

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2. Genesis 13:10–13

   And Lot looked out and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan, all the way to Zoar, was well watered like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)

   ›Commentary on Genesis 13:10–131 voice

   “Haughtiness is the companion of those who deviate from the truth. In fact, as Abraham was quite humble in that he offered the choice, so Lot was rather insolent in presuming to choose. Virtue humbles itself, whereas wickedness becomes arrogant. Lot should rather have relied on one more wise than he, to be on the safe side. Indeed, he did not have the knowledge to make a choice.

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3. Genesis 24:29–51

   Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban, and he rushed out to the man at the spring.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 24:29–511 voice

   “And Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban,.... Perhaps he was her only brother, or however the elder brother, the principal in the family, her father Bethuel being old: and Laban ran out: out of his house, and out of the city of Haran: unto the man unto the well; this was after Rebekah had got home, and had related to the family whom she had met with at the well, and what had passed between them, as follows:

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4. Genesis 25:31

   “First sell me your birthright,” Jacob replied.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 25:311 voice

   “Reason would then curtail the attractions of gluttony and the other excessive desires and would check the passions and emotions of the body. Therefore temperance comes before correction and is the mistress of learning. Proceeding from it, holy Jacob received from his brother the primacy that he had not possessed; by his agreement to that preference, Esau taught for the future that those who do not govern their own selves are worthless in judgment.

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5. Genesis 27:6–29

   Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Behold, I overheard your father saying to your brother Esau,

   ›Commentary on Genesis 27:6–291 voice

   “And Rebekah spake unto Jacob her son,.... Who was in the tent with her, and for whom she had the strongest affection: saying, behold, I heard thy father speak unto Esau thy brother; heard the conversation that passed between them, and particularly what Isaac had given in charge to Esau: saying, as follows:

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6. Genesis 29:15–30

   Laban said to him, “Just because you are my relative, should you work for nothing? Tell me what your wages should be.”

   ›Commentary on Genesis 29:15–301 voice

   “And Laban said unto Jacob, because thou art my brother,....

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7. Genesis 30:35–43

   That very day Laban removed all the streaked or spotted male goats and every speckled or spotted female goat—every one that had any white on it—and every dark-colored lamb, and he placed them under the care of his sons.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 30:35–431 voice

   “And he removed that day the he goats that were ringstraked and spotted,....

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8. Genesis 31:7

   And although he has cheated me and changed my wages ten times, God has not allowed him to harm me.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 31:71 voice

   “(Chapter XXXI, verses 7 and 8) And your father deceived me and changed my wages ten times, and God did not allow him to harm me. If he said, 'Your wages will be the spotted flock,' then every flock was born spotted. And if he said, 'Your wages will be the solid-colored flock,' then every flock was born solid-colored. Because of this, he changed my wages ten times. The Seventy Interpreters have stated, driven by some unknown opinion, that 'moni' in the Hebrew language means 'number' rather than 'lambs.'

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9. Genesis 31:15

   Are we not regarded by him as outsiders? Not only has he sold us, but he has certainly squandered what was paid for us.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 31:151 voice

   “Are we not accounted of him strangers?....

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10. Genesis 31:41

    Thus for twenty years I have served in your household—fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks—and you have changed my wages ten times!

    ›Commentary on Genesis 31:411 voice

    “(Verse 41.) And you changed my reward to ten lambs. The same mistake as above: The word 'numerus' should be read instead of 'agnis'.

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11. Genesis 31:42

    If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, surely by now you would have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my affliction and the toil of my hands, and last night He rendered judgment.”

    ›Commentary on Genesis 31:421 voice

    “Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me,....

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12. Exodus 18:21

    Furthermore, select capable men from among the people—God-fearing, trustworthy men who are averse to dishonest gain. Appoint them over the people as leaders of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens.

    ›Commentary on Exodus 18:211 voice

    “Hence Moses, who speaks with God, is judged by the reproof of Jethro, who was of alien race, because with ill-advised labour he devotes himself to the people's earthly affairs: and counsel too is presently given him, that he should appoint others in his stead for settling earthly strifes, and he himself should be more free to learn spiritual secrets for the instruction of the people.

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13. Exodus 20:17

    You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his manservant or maidservant, or his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”

    ›Commentary on Exodus 20:171 voice

    “Love of money then is an old, an ancient vice, which showed itself even at the declaration of the divine law; for a law was given to check it.

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14. Numbers 22:1

    Then the Israelites traveled on and camped in the plains of Moab near the Jordan, across from Jericho.

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15. Deuteronomy 5:21

    You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. You shall not covet your neighbor’s house or field, or his manservant or maidservant, or his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”

    ›Commentary on Deuteronomy 5:211 voice

    “Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour's wife,.... Here a neighbour's wife is put before his house, different from Exo 20:17 and "his field" is added, which with what follows take in everything that is a man's property; and which is not to be desired or coveted in an unlawful manner by another, and much less should any means be made use of to deprive him of it; but "lust" is the thing intended and prohibited, be it after what it may, which is another man's: see Mat 5:28, of a man's field, see Isa 5:8.

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16. Joshua 7:21

    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.”

    ›Commentary on Joshua 7:211 voice

    “When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment,....

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