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covetousness
«I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that.... I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature.»
Author: Abraham Cowley
(Essayist, Poet)
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conveniences, covetousness, dedicate, joined, moderate, remainder, The Culture
«For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, / Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: / All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.»
Author: Bible
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adulteries, blasphemy, covetousness, defile, evil eye, foolishness, lasciviousness, thefts
«O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness.»
«For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.»
«Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.»
Author: Bible
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covetousness
«For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God is witness: / Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor yet of others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ.»
«Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: / For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience: / In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.»
Author: Bible
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concupiscence, covetousness, fornication, idolatries, idolatry, inordinate, mortified, mortifies, mortify, mortifying, uncleanness, wrath
«Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens: / And let them judge the people at all seasons: and it shall be, that every great matter they shall bring unto thee, but every small matter they shall judge: so shall it be easier for thyself, and they shall bear the burden with thee.»