No buying and selling outside outside of the
body of sin, body of this death, and worshiping its image.
4124. pleonexia
Definition: advantage, covetousness
Usage: covetousness, avarice, aggression, desire for advantage
Genesis 3:5 (...) your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”...
Topical Bible:
Covetousness
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (
n.) Strong desire.
2. (
n.)
A strong or inordinate desire of obtaining and possessing some supposed good; excessive desire for riches or money; -- in a bad sense.
James 4:13 ...ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and
get GAIN:
Matthew 16:26 For what is a man profited, if he shall GAIN the whole world, and lose his own soul? (...)
Nahum 3:16 You have
multiplied your merchants more than the stars of heaven. The locust plunders and flies away.
Luke 20:46 Beware of the scribes. They like to walk around in long robes, and they
LOVE the greetings in the marketplaces,
the chief seats in the synagogues, and
the places of honor at banquets.
Matthew 6:5 And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. Truly I tell you, they already have their full reward.
Matthew 6:16 When you fast, do not be somber like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces to show men they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they already have their full reward.
Matthew 6:1 And beware not to do your righteousness before men in order to be
seen by them. Otherwise you have no reward in the presence of your Father in the heavens.
Zephaniah 1:11 Wail,
you who live in the market district; all your merchants will be wiped out, all
who trade with silver will be destroyed.
Revelation 18:7 As much as she has
glorified herself and lived in luxury, give her the same measure of torment and grief. In her heart she says, ‘I sit as queen; I am not a widow and will never see grief.’
Jeremiah 4:30 And you, O devastated one, what will you do, though you dress yourself in scarlet, though you adorn yourself with gold jewelry, though you enlarge your eyes with paint? You adorn yourself in vain; your lovers despise you; they want to take your life.
Hosea 2:13 I will punish her for the days of the Baals when she burned incense to them, when she decked herself with rings and jewelry, and went after her lovers. But Me she forgot,” declares the LORD.
John 12:43 For they loved praise from men more than praise from God.
Proverbs 25:27 It is not good to eat too much honey or to search out one’s own glory.
1 Timothy 3:3 not dependent on wine, not violent but gentle, peaceable, and free of
the love of money.
Ecclesiastes 5:10 He who loves money is
never satisfied by money, and he who loves wealth is never satisfied by income. (...)
Ecclesiastes 5:13 There is a grievous evil I have seen under the sun:
wealth hoarded to the harm of its owner,
Isa 46:6 They pour out their bags of gold and weigh out silver on scales; they hire a goldsmith to fashion it into a god, so they can bow down and worship.
Matthew 22:5 But they paid no attention and went away, one to his field, another to his business.
Revelation 18:15 The merchants who sold these things and grew their wealth from her will stand at a distance, in fear of her torment. They will weep and mourn,
Hebrew 13:5 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, never will I forsake you.”
Luke 22:3-5 And Satan entered into Judas who was called Iscariot, belonging to the number of the twelve. And he went away and discussed with the chief priests and officers how he might
betray Him to them. They were glad and agreed to
give him money.
Zechariah 11:13 And the LORD said to me, “Throw it to the potter”—
this magnificent sum at which they valued Me! So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them to the potter in the Temple of the LORD.
Hebrews 12:6 See to it that no one is sexually immoral, or is godless like Esau,
who for a single meal SOLD his birthright.