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Bible Word Study Greedy

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Psalms 17:1-15

1

Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.

2

Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; let thine eyes behold the things that are equal.

3

Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.

4

Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer.

5

Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.

6

I have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, O God: incline thine ear unto me, and hear my speech.

7

Shew thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou that savest by thy right hand them which put their trust in thee from those that rise up against them.

8

Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings,

9

From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about.

10

They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.

11

They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;

12

Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

13

Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, which is thy sword:

14

From men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.

15

As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.

Psalms 17:1-15

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Proverbs 1:10-19

10

My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.

11

If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:

12

Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:

13

We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:

14

Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:

15

My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:

16

For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

17

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

18

And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.

19

So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

Proverbs 1:10-19

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Proverbs 15:27

27

A greedy man brings trouble to his family, but he who hates bribes will live.

Proverbs 15:27

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Proverbs 21:24-27

24

Proud and haughty scorner is his name, who dealeth in proud wrath.

25

The desire of the slothful killeth him; for his hands refuse to labour.

26

He coveteth greedily all the day long: but the righteous giveth and spareth not.

27

The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind?

Proverbs 21:24-27

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Isaiah 56:1-12

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Thus saith the LORD, Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.

2

Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that layeth hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil.

3

Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the LORD, speak, saying, The LORD hath utterly separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.

4

For thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant;

5

Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.

6

Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant;

7

Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people.

8

The Lord GOD, which gathereth the outcasts of Israel saith, Yet will I gather others to him, beside those that are gathered unto him.

9

All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, yea, all ye beasts in the forest.

10

His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.

11

Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.

12

Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to morrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant.

Isaiah 56:1-12

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Ezekiel 22:1-16

1

Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

2

Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? yea, thou shalt shew her all her abominations.

3

Then say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD, The city sheddeth blood in the midst of it, that her time may come, and maketh idols against herself to defile herself.

4

Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed; and hast defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast made; and thou hast caused thy days to draw near, and art come even unto thy years: therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the heathen, and a mocking to all countries.

5

Those that be near, and those that be far from thee, shall mock thee, which art infamous and much vexed.

6

Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in thee to their power to shed blood.

7

In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.

8

Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.

9

In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in thee they eat upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they commit lewdness.

10

In thee have they discovered their fathers' nakedness: in thee have they humbled her that was set apart for pollution.

11

And one hath committed abomination with his neighbour's wife; and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter in law; and another in thee hath humbled his sister, his father's daughter.

12

In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD.

13

Behold, therefore I have smitten mine hand at thy dishonest gain which thou hast made, and at thy blood which hath been in the midst of thee.

14

Can thine heart endure, or can thine hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with thee? I the LORD have spoken it, and will do it.

15

And I will scatter thee among the heathen, and disperse thee in the countries, and will consume thy filthiness out of thee.

16

And thou shalt take thine inheritance in thyself in the sight of the heathen, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.

Ezekiel 22:1-16

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Ephesians 4:17-32

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This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,

18

Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:

19

Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

20

But ye have not so learned Christ;

21

If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:

22

That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;

23

And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;

24

And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

25

Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.

26

Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:

27

Neither give place to the devil.

28

Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.

29

Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

30

And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.

31

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

32

And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.

Ephesians 4:17-32

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1 Timothy 3:1-16

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This is a true saying, if a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.

2

A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

3

Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;

4

One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;

5

(For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)

6

Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.

7

Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

8

Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;

9

Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.

10

And let these also first be proved; then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless.

11

Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.

12

Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

13

For they that have used the office of a deacon well purchase to themselves a good degree, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

14

These things write I unto thee, hoping to come unto thee shortly:

15

But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

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And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.

1 Timothy 3:1-16

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Jude 1:1-25

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Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called:

2

Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.

3

Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.

4

For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

5

I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.

6

And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.

7

Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

8

Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.

9

Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.

10

But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.

11

Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.

12

These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

13

Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.

14

And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,

15

To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.

16

These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.

17

But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;

18

How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.

19

These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.

20

But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,

21

Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.

22

And of some have compassion, making a difference:

23

And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.

24

Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,

25

To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.

Jude 1:1-25

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KJV Verses Containing Greedy

Psalms 17:12   (  KJV    NASB    NIV  )
Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.


Proverbs 1:19   (  KJV    NASB    NIV  )
So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.


Proverbs 15:27   (  KJV    NASB    NIV  )
He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live.


Isaiah 56:11   (  KJV    NASB    NIV  )
Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.


1 Timothy 3:3   (  KJV    NASB    NIV  )
Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;


1 Timothy 3:8   (  KJV    NASB    NIV  )
Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;

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Proverbs 21:26   (  KJV    NASB    NIV  )
He coveteth greedily all the day long: but the righteous giveth and spareth not.


Ezekiel 22:12   (  KJV    NASB    NIV  )
In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD.


Jude 1:11   (  KJV    NASB    NIV  )
Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.

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KJV Verses Containing Greediness

Ephesians 4:19   (  KJV    NASB    NIV  )
Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

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