I'm writing a book and I'd like to include some passages from the Bible. I already have Deuteronomy 6, 10-13 and Numbers 16 8-10, but it'll be a rather long book which focuses around greed quite a bit.
2007-11-02 18:17:39 · 10 answers · asked by pixiecat_girl 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Use a concordance.
2007-11-02 18:24:45 · answer #1 · answered by war~horse 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In 2Kings chapter 5 is a very short and fitting story that tellsof greed. Very briefly, the story goes that even if the master, in this case Elisha, refused to received gifts from Naaman, an Aramean general who was cured of leprosy by God through Elisha, the prophet's servant Gehazi went after the general and solicited a talent of silver and two new garments purportedly for some young men from the community of prophets... Maybe it's also a story about corruption.
2007-11-03 01:51:35 · answer #2 · answered by cougar 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ecclesiastes 5:8
Ecclesiastes 6:12
Luke 12:13-34
1 Timothy 6:3-10
James 5:1-6
2007-11-03 01:23:05 · answer #3 · answered by tracy211968 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Keep the Sabbath day holy - God said this because He knew that businessmen would taste money and start to work 24/7/365 if He didn't tell them not to - and that kind of work ruins the family unit.
Do not covet - be happy for others in what they have and learn to be content with what you have - or you'll get ulcers.
Tithing - learn to be a "giver" and it'll be more profitable in the long run. I can live better on 90% of what God and I make together than on 100% of what I can make on my own.
2007-11-03 01:26:28 · answer #4 · answered by teran_realtor 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Theres a verse in the new testament somewhere tha I love it talks about not showing favouritism to those who are wealthy. It says not to give them the best seats and then give the less wealthy people the worse seating. It says something about how you have become that you are entertaiing wicked thougghts or something like that. There is an online concordance on biblegateway.com
2007-11-03 01:26:20 · answer #5 · answered by Edward J 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if you want to understand greed... skip the bible and just observe catholicims and christianity... there are a great number of example right out in the open to go by....
2007-11-03 01:23:09 · answer #6 · answered by Gyspy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"For the love of money is a root of all sorts of evil, and some by longing for it have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs." I Timothy 6:10
2007-11-03 01:21:42 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I found some by googling "God's promises about greed" and I would post them myself but I hate the superlong posts that are just cut and pasted.
2007-11-03 01:21:56 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You could always include passages about tithing.
2007-11-03 01:23:26 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://www.biblegateway.com
2007-11-03 01:25:51 · answer #10 · answered by bungyow2 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋