Bible Dictionary: Temptation: Comes From: Covetousness

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Proverbs 28:20
A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that makes haste to be rich shall not be innocent.
Torrey's Topical Textbook

1 Timothy 6:9,10
But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
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Library

Whether the Mode and Order of the Temptation were Becoming?
... Therefore Matthew unfittingly gives the last place to the temptation to covetousness
on the mountain ... I answer that, The temptation which comes from the ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether the mode and order.htm

Warning.
... than for strength to resist when temptation has overtaken ... It comes in innocent guise,
and saps the life ... the fruits of extravagance, of pride, of covetousness? ...
//christianbookshelf.org/moody/sowing and reaping/chapter viii warning.htm

Hell on Earth
... respectable vices that the devil mostly tempts us,"to covetousness, to party ... When
temptation comes, when evil looks pleasant, and arguments rise up in your ...
/.../kingsley/twenty-five village sermons/sermon ix hell on earth.htm

A Description of Heart-Purity
... 19:2). When the Spirit of God comes He is repulsed and grieved, but when temptation
comes, the sinner ... Covetousness is the root of all evil' (1 Timothy 6:10). ...
/.../16 a description of heart-purity.htm

How a Man's Conduct Comes Home to Him
... and everything made ready for that one temptation by which ... of the bow, greed is prudence,
covetousness is economy ... baked in the oven; but the bread comes to the ...
/.../spurgeon/sermons on proverbs/how a mans conduct comes.htm

The Tenth Commandment
... so much of it as may keep us from the temptation of poverty ... Whom God abhors he curses,
and his curse blasts wherever it comes. (6) Covetousness precipitates men ...
/.../watson/the ten commandments/2 1 the tenth commandment.htm

On Sin and Its Kinds
... The followers of covetousness are: Want of charity, dishonest dealing ... Sloth comes
under the First Commandment, because it has ... Do not listen to that temptation. ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/kinkead/baltimore catechism no 4/lesson 6 on sin and.htm

Secondly, to Assign Some Reasons Why Christians must Make this the ...
... were commanded by their lusts, they went after their covetousness. ... watchful heart
that discovers and suppresses the temptation before it comes to its ...
/.../flavel/on keeping the heart/secondly to assign some reasons.htm

On a Holy Martyr's Day
... and to withstand this kind of temptation, you must ... and naked." This is the rule against
spiritual covetousness. ... himself in true humility; this comes no doubt ...
//christianbookshelf.org/tauler/the inner way/sermon xxxi on a holy.htm

Sermon on a Martyr's Day
... from these sins, and withstand this kind of temptation, you must ... This is the rule
against spiritual covetousness. ... himself in true humility, this comes no doubt ...
/.../xxvii sermon on a martyrs.htm

Subtopics

Temptation

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Temptation: Abraham Leads Pharaoh

Temptation: Achan

Temptation: Always Conformable to the Nature of Man

Temptation: Balaam

Temptation: Balak Tempts Balaam

Temptation: Blessedness of Those Who Meet and Overcome

Temptation: Christ is Able to Help Those Under