Bible Dictionary: Being Greedy

◄ Being Greedy ►

Jump to: Topical • Hebrew • Library • Subtopics

Topical Bible Verses

Hebrews 13:5
Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as you have: for he has said, I will never leave you, nor forsake you.
Topicalbible.org

Proverbs 28:25
He that is of a proud heart stirs up strife: but he that puts his trust in the LORD shall be made fat.
Topicalbible.org

Proverbs 15:27
He that is greedy of gain troubles his own house; but he that hates gifts shall live.
Topicalbible.org

Ephesians 5:5
For this you know, that no fornicator, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
Topicalbible.org

Strong's Hebrew

5315. nephesh -- a soul, living being, life, self, person, desire ...
... 1), endure* (1), feelings (1), fierce* (2), greedy* (1), heart (5), heart's (2),
herself (12), Himself (4), himself (19), human (1), human being (1), hunger (1 ...
/hebrew/5315.htm - 7k

Library

Kingo's Later Years
... Kingo was accused of being greedy, vain, over-ambitious and self-seeking,
all of which probably contained at least a grain of truth. ...
/.../aaberg/hymns and hymnwriters of denmark/chapter seven kingos later years.htm

Philippians ii. 19-21
... They indeed suffer no harm at your hands, even if it is with cause and justice that
they are thus charged of being greedy of gain; for, whether ye speak, or ...
/.../homily ix philippians ii 19-21.htm

The Egyptians, Then, Having Been Taught to Worship Antinous...
... of falsehood when he says, "that they will not endure his being compared with ... who
have learned also that all the gods of the heathen are greedy demons, which ...
/.../origen/origen against celsus/chapter xxxvii the egyptians then.htm

Argument: the Weapon that Cæcilius had Slightly Brandished ...
... Paulus also had greedy chickens at Cannæ, yet he was overthrown with the ... these spirits,
after having lost the simplicity of their nature by being weighed down ...
/.../felix/the octavius of minucius felix/chapter xxvi argument the weapon that.htm

Outside the Eden Gate.
... ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts; who, being
past feeling, gave themselves up to lasciviousness to make a greedy trade of ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/gordon/quiet talks about jesus/outside the eden gate.htm

1 Timothy iii. 10-Aug
... the Deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given much to wine, not greedy of filthy ...
be proved: then let them use the office of a Deacon, being found blameless ...
/.../homily xi 1 timothy iii.htm

The Rich Fool
... But covetousness, or the greedy clutching at more and more of earthly ... also a distinction
between 'abundance' and 'possessions' the former being a superfluous ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture e/the rich fool.htm

Epistle Xlviii. To Columbus, Bishop .
... and that very many, leave being given them through venality, are being baptized
a ... And, if the prowler should have bitten it with greedy mouth, how do they busy ...
/.../the epistles of saint gregory the great/epistle xlviii to columbus bishop.htm

But, as Far as what Has Been Already Said...
... If, then, by being "washed," as says the Prophet [2054] , in that mystic bath we ...
they call him by the same names, a covetous person, one who is greedy of what ...
/.../gregory/gregory of nyssa dogmatic treatises etc/chapter xl but as far.htm

Prologue. Who is a Faithful and Wise Servant? his Reward is ...
... the five talents [2514] of the faith entrusted to these five books being as it ... Neither
do I, my brethren, with greedy desires, long for this, so that I may be ...
/.../ambrose/works and letters of st ambrose/prologue who is a faithful.htm