Covetousness: Leads to Lying

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2 Kings 5:22-25
And he said, All is well. My master has sent me, saying, Behold, even now there be come to me from mount Ephraim two young men of the sons of the prophets: give them, I pray you, a talent of silver, and two changes of garments.
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Tenth Commandment
... Dr. Boardman has shown how covetousness leads to the ... the covetous man with an idolater:
'Covetousness, which is ... falsehood: for instance, Gehazi, lying in the ...
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Of the Source from which Covetousness Springs, and of the Evils of ...
... it shrinks not from the crime of lying, perjury, and ... the worship of idols, saying
"And covetousness (which in ... downfall this madness step by step leads, so that ...
/.../cassian/the works of john cassian /chapter vii of the source.htm

Psalm XL.
... The "broad way" leads unto death, [1110] its breadth ... aside after them: they are
"vanities, and lying madnesses." Let ... Whither does worldly covetousness lead thee ...
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Self-Destruction
... of his path, and the ruin to which it leads. ... Then, when the lying spirit comes and
whispers to ... to pamper ourselves, our greediness, covetousness, ambition, or ...
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"For to be Carnally Minded is Death; but to be Spiritually Minded ...
... How thorny, how miry is the way of covetousness! ... a self destroyer, and that is done
by lying and deceiving. ... as of its own nature inevitably leads to destruction ...
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The Pure in Heart
... snares for his creatures, or leads them into ... lest he frighten them into lying; to
avoid ... spite, vanity, bad temper, wounded pride, disappointed covetousness? ...
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Matt. xxviii. 11-14.
... were stuck on with the myrrh; for Peter saw these lying. ... But then, the one, covetousness,
urges to insult the other ... it places thee, to what men it leads thee on ...
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The one Escape.
... mine heart unto Thy testimonies, and not unto covetousness. ... ready to excuse a man
for lying, cringing, plotting ... and Truth, and Justice, which leads men into all ...
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Achan's Sin, Israel's Defeat
... terms of ordinary morality, as theft, lying, and concealment ... bloodhounds following
up the scent which leads them straight ... Covetousness was the sin of all three. ...
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The Valley of Achor
... Their defeat was caused by the covetousness of Achan ... again followed their assault,
and Achan lying stiff and ... Sorrow forsakes its own nature, and leads in its ...
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