Bible Dictionary: Lying: Vanity of Getting Riches By

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Torrey's Topical Textbook

Proverbs 21:6
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.
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Thoughts Upon Worldly Riches. Sect. I.
... they see us busying our selves about getting a little ... get what they can, it is but
Vanity and vexation of ... thing as cheating and cousenage, as lying and perjury ...
/.../private thoughts upon a christian life/thoughts upon worldly riches sect.htm

There is a Blessedness in Reversion
... They are like a castle made of snow, lying under the ... to wind (Hosea 12:1) to show
their vanity, so to ... and as they pierce the head with care of getting, so they ...
/.../the beatitudes an exposition of matthew 51-12/2 there is a blessedness.htm

Tenth Commandment
... In fact we might add lying, and make ... translated "covetousness" means"an inordinate
desire of getting. ... loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity. ...
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The Folly of Slander. Part 2.
... 'Tis true which the wise man saith, "The getting of treasures by a lying tongue,
is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death." And, "Woe ...
/.../barrow/sermons on evil-speaking by isaac barrow/the folly of slander part 2.htm

Matt. xii. 46-49.
... do this before all, evincing a superfluous vanity, and wishing to ... sits by the sea,"
fishing and getting into His ... being no longer trampled on, nor lying open to ...
/.../homilies on the gospel of saint matthew/homily xliv matt xii 46-49.htm

Death in Life
... talking, and to drunkenness, and to vanity about fine ... judgment is the stem, and plain
lying and slandering ... greediness to get much, ends by getting nothing at all ...
/.../kingsley/sermons for the times/sermon xvii death in life.htm

The one Escape.
... right was the only possible way of getting out of ... most ready to excuse a man for
lying, cringing, plotting ... poor Christian, when he went through Vanity Fair, and ...
/.../kingsley/westminster sermons/sermon xiii the one escape.htm

Profit and Loss
... but as your poor soul how that is getting on, and ... Vanity of vanities, all is vanity;"
thus saith ... root and branch; and when he entered into hell, lying on their ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 2 1856/profit and loss.htm

Rom. x. 1
... beauty of the appearance, nor the desire of lying with her ... as the man who thinks
scorn of getting respected and ... any one, so are they that be slaves of vanity. ...
/.../chrysostom/homilies on acts and romans/homily xvii rom x 1.htm

Book Six Turmoil in the Twenties. ...
... joy of a faithful hope is incomparably beyond such vanity. ... following after the ambition
of my pride by lying. ... Behold, I was now getting close to thirty, still ...
/.../augustine/confessions and enchiridion/book six turmoil in the.htm

Subtopics

Lying

Lying About Giving

Lying Lips

Lying: A Characteristic of the Apostasy

Lying: A Hindrance to Prayer

Lying: An Abomination to God

Lying: Ananias

Lying: Antinomians Guilty of

Lying: Cain

Lying: Cretans

Lying: David