And Lot lifted up his eyes and saw all the area around Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere (before Jehovah destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah) like the garden of Jehovah, like the land of Egypt as you go toward Zoar.

Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelt around the cities, and pitched his tent even as far as Sodom.

for I will honor you with great honor, and I will do whatever you say to me. Therefore please come, curse this people for me.

Now therefore, please, you also stay here tonight, that I may know what more Jehovah will say to me.

Israel has sinned, and they have also transgressed My covenant which I have commanded them. For they have even taken some of the devoted things, and have both stolen and deceived; and they have also put it among their own stuff.

But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my master has spared Naaman this Syrian, in not receiving from his hands what he brought; but as Jehovah lives, I will run after him and take something from him.

And he said, All is well. My master has sent me, saying, Behold, just now two young men of the sons of the prophets have come to me from the mountains of Ephraim. Please give them a talent of silver and two changes of garments.

And when he came to the hill, he took them from their hand, and deposited them in the house; and he sent the men away, and they departed.

Then he said to him, Did not my heart go with you when the man turned back from his chariot to meet you? Is it a time to receive money and to receive clothing, olive groves and vineyards, sheep and oxen, male and female servants?

He who is greedy for gain troubles his own house, but he who hates bribes shall live.

An inheritance obtained by greed in the beginning will not be blessed in the end.

The acquisition of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity driven about by those who seek death.

He who oppresses the poor to make increase for himself, and he who gives to the rich, shall surely come to poverty.

A faithful man shall abound with blessings, but he who makes haste to be rich shall not be found innocent.

He who hastens to be rich has an evil eye, and does not recognize that poverty will come upon him.

Woe to those who join house to house, laying field to field, until there is no more space for you to dwell alone in the midst of the earth!

He is a merchant; the scales of deceit are in his hand; he loves to oppress.

And Ephraim said, I am rich; I have found much wealth for myself. In all my labors they shall find no iniquity in me that is sin.

Hear this, you who swallow up the needy, and make the poor of the land to fail,

in order to buy the poor with silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals, and sell the refuse of the wheat?

whose possessors kill them and are not held guilty. And those who sell them say, Blessed be Jehovah, for I am rich. And their shepherds do not pity them.

And that which was sown among the thorns is he who hears the Word, and the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the Word, and he becomes unfruitful.

But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful, for he had many possessions.

and said, What will you give me, and I will deliver Him to you? And they counted out to him thirty pieces of silver.

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your calamities that are coming upon you.

Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have heaped up treasure in the last days.

They have forsaken the right way and gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;

but he was rebuked for his iniquity: a dumb donkey speaking with a man's voice restrained the madness of the prophet.

Woe to them! For they have gone in the way of Cain, have rushed out in the error of Balaam for profit, and perished in the rebellion of Korah.

Moreover he must have a good testimony with those who are outside, that he not fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

You shall burn the graven images of their gods with fire; you shall not covet the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it for yourselves, lest you be snared by it; for it is an abomination to Jehovah your God.

Upon the wicked He will rain snares, fire and brimstone; and a horrible tempest shall be the portion of their cup.

Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.

So are the ways of everyone who gets unjust gain; it takes away the soul of its master.

For it will come as a snare on all those who dwell on the face of the whole earth.

and that they may come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him to do his will.

and the cares of this world, the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts for other things entering in choke the Word, and it becomes unfruitful.

that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which is corrupted according to the deceitful lusts,

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

And the world is passing away, and its lust; but he who does the will of God abides forever.

knowing this: that the Law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for the unholy and profane, for slayers of fathers and slayers of mothers, for murderers,

And they killed the kings of Midian with the rest of those who were killed; Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian. Balaam the son of Beor they also killed with the sword.

And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, the silver, the garment, the wedge of gold, his sons, his daughters, his oxen, his donkeys, his sheep, his tent, and all that he had, and they brought them to the valley of Achor.

And they raised over him a great heap of stones, still there to this day. And Jehovah turned back from His burning anger. Therefore the name of that place has been called the Valley of Achor to this day.

Then Judas, His betrayer, seeing that He was condemned, repented and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,

And he threw down the pieces of silver in the temple and departed, and went and hanged himself.

While it remained, was it not your own? And after it was sold, was it not in your own control? Why have you put this deed in your heart? You have not lied to men but to God.

Then Ananias, hearing these words, fell down and breathed his last. So great fear came upon all those who heard these things.

But Peter said to him, Your money perish with you, because you thought that the gift of God could be purchased with money!

By covetousness they will exploit you with well-turned words; whose judgment of old is not idle, and their destruction does not slumber.