Bible Dictionary: Covetousness: Leads to Poverty

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Torrey's Topical Textbook

Proverbs 28:22
He that hastens to be rich has an evil eye, and considers not that poverty shall come on him.
Torrey's Topical Textbook

Library

Of Poverty
... nor God, whom by divers wiles he leads to endless ... for they dare not suffer anguish,
poverty and neediness ... seek more than enough is foul covetousness; to keep ...
//christianbookshelf.org/rolle/the fire of love/chapter iii of poverty.htm

On Contempt for Pain, Poverty, and Other External Things.
... The conversion, however, which leads to divine things ... also honour, and marriage,
and poverty, have ten ... these very words, "Take heed, therefore, of covetousness. ...
/.../clement/the stromata or miscellanies/chapter v on contempt for pain.htm

On a Holy Martyr's Day
... Ensample unto us, to comfort our poverty and bereavement ... Therefore, beware of spiritual
covetousness, for the poorer ... And this often leads people to make many ...
//christianbookshelf.org/tauler/the inner way/sermon xxxi on a holy.htm

Sermon on a Martyr's Day
... ensample unto us, to comfort our poverty and bereavement ... Therefore, beware of spiritual
covetousness; for the poorer ... And this often leads people to make many ...
/.../xxvii sermon on a martyrs.htm

Matt. xxviii. 11-14.
... But then, the one, covetousness, urges to insult the other ... Seest thou how far the
praises of poverty have proceeded ... it places thee, to what men it leads thee on ...
/.../homilies on the gospel of saint matthew/homily xc matt xxviii 11-14.htm

A Liberal Church
... It is the spirit of covetousness which leads men to ... closely to the One who was rich,
yet for our sakes became poor, that we through His poverty might be ...
/.../white/the acts of the apostles/lesson 32 a liberal church.htm

Blessed are the Poor in Spirit
... Poverty leads the van, and persecution brings up the rear ... By the blessed effects
of this poverty, which are ... Christ and his pleasure, Christ and his covetousness. ...
/.../watson/the beatitudes an exposition of matthew 51-12/4 blessed are the poor.htm

Hebrews x. 13-Aug
... So great a good is Poverty. ... by the hand, as it were, on the path which leads to Heaven ...
but he shamelessly [asks] for ten thousand things for covetousness' sake. ...
/.../homilies on the gospel of st john and hebrews/homily xviii hebrews x 13-aug.htm

Homilies on Galatians and Ephesians.
... Idolatry of Christians is covetousness, [339]134; its origin, [340]135. ... 377]29; once
led to, now leads from Christ ... Poverty the lot of the Christian, [481]46. ...
/.../homilies on galatians and ephesians.htm

Matt. xxvi. 6, 7
... and that the harm arises not from poverty but from ... diligence to put away the pest
of covetousness, that we ... This leads to the identification of Mary, the sister ...
/.../chrysostom/homilies on the gospel of saint matthew/homily lxxx matt xxvi 6.htm