Bible Cross References
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Proverbs 15:27
A receiver of bribes destroys himself, but he that hates the receiving of bribes is safe. [ 15:27A] By alms and by faithful dealings sins are purged away, but by the fear of the Lord everyone departs from evil.
Proverbs 23:3
desire not his provisions; for these belong to a false life.
Proverbs 23:4
If you are poor, measure not yourself with a rich man, but refrain yourself in your wisdom.
2 Samuel 18:11-13
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And Joab said to the man who reported it to him, Behold, did you indeed see him? Why then did you not strike him there to the ground? And I would have given you ten [pieces] of silver, and a belt.
12
And the man said to Joab, Were I even to receive a thousand shekels of silver, I would not lift my hand against the king's son; for in our ears the king charged you and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Take care of the young man Absalom for me,
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so as to do no harm to his life: and nothing of the matter will be concealed from the king, and you will set yourself against me.
2 Kings 5:20-27
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And Gehazi the servant of Elisha said, Behold, my Lord has spared this Syrian Naaman, so as not to take of his hand what he has brought; as the Lord lives, I will surely run after him, and take something from him.
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So Gehazi followed after Naaman. And Naaman saw him running after him, and turned back from his chariot to meet him.
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And [Gehazi] said, All is well: my master has sent me, saying, Behold, now two young men of the sons of the prophets have come to me from Mount Ephraim; please give them a talent of silver, and two changes of clothes.
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And [Naaman] said, Take two talents of silver. And he took two talents of silver in two bags, and two changes of clothing, and put them upon two of his servants, and they bore them before him.
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And he came to a secret place, and took them from their hands, and laid them up in the house, and dismissed the men.
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And he went in himself and stood before his master. And Elisha said to him,
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From where [have you come], Gehazi? And Gehazi said, Your servant has not been anywhere. And Elisha said to him, Did not my heart go with you, when the man returned from his chariot to meet you? And now you have received silver, and now you have received clothing, olive groves and vineyards, sheep and oxen, menservants, and maidservants.
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The leprosy also of Naaman shall cleave to you, and to your seed forever. And he went out from his presence leprous, like snow.
Jeremiah 22:17-19
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Behold, your eyes are not good, nor your heart, but [they go] after your covetousness, and after the innocent blood to shed it, and after acts of injustice and slaughter, to commit them.
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Therefore thus says the Lord concerning Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah, even concerning this man: they shall not lament for him, [saying], Ah brother! Neither shall they weep for him, [saying], Alas Lord.
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He shall be buried with the burial of a donkey; he shall be dragged roughly along and cast outside the gate of Jerusalem.
Micah 2:1-3
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They meditated troubles, and wrought wickedness on their beds, and they put it in execution with the daylight; for they have not lifted up their hands to God.
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And they desired fields, and plundered orphans, and oppressed families, and spoiled a man and his house, even a man and his inheritance.
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Therefore thus says the Lord; Behold, I devise evils against this family, out of which you shall not lift up your necks, neither shall you walk upright speedily: for the time is evil.
Micah 3:10-12
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who build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
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Their heads have judged for gifts, and their priests have answered for hire, and her prophets have divined for silver: and yet they have rested on the Lord, saying, Is not the Lord among us? No evil shall come upon us.
12
Therefore on your account Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall be as a storehouse of fruits, and the mountain of the house as a grove of the forest.
Habakkuk 2:9
Woe to him that covets an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evils.
Acts 8:19
saying, "Give me this power also, that on whom ever I lay my hands he may receive the Holy Spirit."
Acts 8:20
But Peter said to him, "Your money perish with you, because you thought to acquire the gift of God through money!
1 Timothy 3:3
not given to wine, not a bully, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not loving money;
1 Timothy 6:9
But those desiring to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and many senseless and harmful lusts which sink men in destruction and perdition.
1 Timothy 6:10
For the love of money is a root of all evils, of which some [by] aspiring have strayed away from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
James 5:1-4
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Listen now, you rich, weep and howl at your miseries which are coming upon you!
2
Your riches have decayed, and your garments have become moth-eaten.
3
Your gold and silver have become corroded, and their poison will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You stored up treasure in the last days.
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Indeed, the wages of the laborers who reaped your fields, which were kept back by you, cry out, and the cries of the reapers have entered into the ears of the Lord of Hosts.
2 Peter 2:3
And by covetousness they will exploit you with fabricated words; for a long time their judgment has not been idle, and their destruction will not sleep.
2 Peter 2:14-16
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having eyes full of adultery and unable to cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having a heart having been trained in greediness, they are accursed children.
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They have left behind the straight way and gone astray, having followed after the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
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but he was rebuked for his own lawlessness: a dumb donkey speaking with the voice of a man restrained the madness of the prophet.
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Job 31:39
and if I ate its strength alone without price, and if I too grieved the heart of the owner of the soil, by taking from [him],
Ecclesiastes 5:13
There is an infirmity which I have seen under the sun, [namely], wealth kept for its owner to his [own] hurt.