Bible Dictionary: Covetousness: Leads to Misery

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Torrey's Topical Textbook

1 Timothy 6:10
For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
Torrey's Topical Textbook

Library

A Liberal Church
... It is the spirit of covetousness which leads men to keep ... Thus they hope to secure
happiness and ease, but the fruit of their sowing is misery and death. ...
/.../white/the acts of the apostles/lesson 32 a liberal church.htm

The Natural Supremacy of Reflection
... little more than relief from that misery; whereas the ... no doubt concerning ambition
and covetousness, virtue and ... perfectly coincide with virtue, and leads us to ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/butler/human nature/sermon iii the natural supremacy.htm

Thoughts Upon Worldly Riches. Sect. I.
... We have the way that leads thereto revealed to us ... they still desire more, and therefore
Covetousness in Scripture ... and the Evil of Punishment or Misery; and the ...
/.../private thoughts upon a christian life/thoughts upon worldly riches sect.htm

Opposition to Messiah Ruinous
... connection, which He has established between sin and misery. ... of the dreadful end
to which it leads. ... gnawing of envy, the thirst of covetousness, the anxieties ...
/.../newton/messiah vol 2/sermon xxxv opposition to messiah.htm

The Pure in Heart
... who lays snares for his creatures, or leads them into ... he may make it, by ambition,
covetousness, and wild ... be miserable yourself, and a maker of misery to others ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/kingsley/the good news of god/sermon xvi the pure in.htm

"For to be Carnally Minded is Death; but to be Spiritually Minded ...
... our eternity, whether it be happiness or misery, is but ... How thorny, how miry is the
way of covetousness! ... way is intricate, deep, unpassable, that leads to that ...
/.../binning/the works of the rev hugh binning/sermon xix for to be.htm

{24A} Upon the Love of Our Neighbour. Preached on Advent Sunday.
... inconveniences, and often is downright pain and misery. ... or any other particular
affection leads to. ... of tranquillity and freedom than ambition or covetousness? ...
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Jowett -- Apostolic Optimism
... reprobate minds," "unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full ...
fearless severity the apostle leads us through ... of evil and misery and contempt ...
/.../various/the worlds great sermons volume 10/jowett apostolic optimism.htm

On the Nativity of John the Baptist the First Sermon
... is the result of the first; it is pain and misery. ... He leads them into whatsoever
he finds them most inclined to by nature: unchastity, or covetousness, or pride ...
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The Important Question
... the love of our neighbour naturally leads all that ... is a life of misery; seeing true ...
Ambition, covetousness, vanity, inordinate affection, malice, revengefulness ...
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