Bible Dictionary: Covetousness: A Characteristic of the Wicked

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Torrey's Topical Textbook

Romans 1:29
Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
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The Law, Even in Correcting and Punishing, Aims at the Good of Men ...
... possession of, for example, by wrong or covetousness,"it will be ... To know the law
is characteristic of a good ... And again: "Wicked men do not understand the law ...
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The Many-Sided Contrast of Wisdom and Folly
... sense; for it is the characteristic of animals ... sympathetic interest, even when the
'wicked' means to be ... the former, showing that the covetousness which follows ...
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1 Cor. vi. 15
... For this also is characteristic of the wisdom of ... Both however are bad, both covetousness
and fornication; and ... our mind abstain from every wicked thought, and ...
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Ephesians v. 5, 6
... so if your light shine, the wicked being discovered ... And dost thou hear that covetousness
is idolatry, and ... of this weakness; for this too is characteristic of a ...
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Preface --The Author's Object --The Utility of Written ...
... it, without increase, He said, "Thou wicked and slothful ... that which is, as it were,
characteristic of a ... know," says the apostle, "nor a cloak of covetousness. ...
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Hopkinsians.
... disinterested friendly affection is its distinguishing characteristic. ... the fear of
the wicked, consists in ... is the foundation of all covetousness and sensuality ...
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A Young Man's Best Counsellor
... Reverence for traditional wisdom was characteristic of that state ... be weak is generally
to be wicked; for in ... What is true about 'covetousness,' as verse 19 tells ...
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Ananias and Sapphira.
... thou art influenced solely by vanity and covetousness?" But I ... event to the righteous
and to the wicked; to the ... of spiritual things, and as characteristic of a ...
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Victory Over the World through Faith
... world is, that the spirit of covetousness in respect ... are born of God by this
characteristic"they overcome ... of Christian life before those wicked, sceptical men ...
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A Description of Heart-Purity
... (xii) Covetousness is the ... Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances and with
the bag of ... 3 Purity of heart is the characteristic note of God's people. ...
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