Covetousness is Idolatry
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Ephesians 5:5
For this you know, that no fornicator, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
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Colossians 3:5
Mortify therefore your members which are on the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
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Connection Between Covetousness and Idolatry. Certain Trades ...
... Chapter XI."Connection Between Covetousness and Idolatry. Certain Trades,
However Gainful, to Be Avoided. If we think over the ...
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Whether Other Sins Dissolve Marriage?
... Objection 4: Further, covetousness is idolatry according to Eph.5:5. Now
a wife may be put away on account of idolatry. Therefore ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether other sins dissolve marriage.htm

Whether Covetousness is the Greatest of Sins?
... Reply to Objection 4: Covetousness is compared to idolatry on account of a certain
likeness that it bears to it: because the covetous man, like the idolater ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether covetousness is the greatest.htm

On Idolatry
... Chapter X.--Of Schoolmasters and Their Difficulties. Chapter XI.--Connection Between
Covetousness and Idolatry. Certain Trades, However Gainful, to Be Avoided. ...
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Idolatry Led to all Immorality.
... Chapter XXXI."Idolatry Led to All Immorality. ... and liberty reduced to slavery; each
one, as he could, satisfied his lust and his covetousness, although no ...
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Letter xiv. To Heliodorus, Monk.
... a bowl. Covetousness is idolatry, or else the selling of the Lord for thirty
pieces of silver was a righteous act. [200] Lust involves ...
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Ephesians v. 5, 6
... Wouldest thou hear again another argument, to teach you how covetousness
is idolatry, and more shocking than idolatry? Idolaters ...
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Whether the Mode and Order of the Temptation were Becoming?
... But in the temptation on the mountain he counseled two sins"-namely, covetousness
and idolatry. Therefore the mode of the temptation was unfitting. ...
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Fruits and the Two Works.
... 4. Idolatry. Covetousness is idolatry. Col.3:5. Covetousness"A desire to gain money,
goods, honor, or praise, even at the expense of another. 5. Witchcraft. ...
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Saurin -- Paul Before Felix and Drusilla
... For the Scriptures teach, and experience confirms, that "covetousness is idolatry."
The covetous man is not a worshiper of the true God. ...
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Covetousness

Covetousness in Building Fine Houses While the House of the Lord Lay Waste

Covetousness in Buying Esau's Birthright

Covetousness in Deceiving Jacob in Wages

Covetousness in Deceiving Jacob when he Served Him Seven Years for Rachel

Covetousness in Defrauding Esau of His, Father's Blessing

Covetousness in Defrauding Laban of his Flocks and Herds

Covetousness in Exacting Usury from Their Brethren

Covetousness in Following Jesus Merely for the Loaves and Fish

Covetousness in Giving Rebekah to be Isaac's Wife

Covetousness in Keeping Back the Portion of the Levites

Covetousness is Idolatry

Covetousness is Inconsistent in Saints

Covetousness is Inconsistent: Specially in Ministers

Covetousness is Never Satisfied

Covetousness is the Root of all Evil

Covetousness is Vanity

Covetousness: A Characteristic of the Slothful

Covetousness: A Characteristic of the Wicked

Covetousness: Abhorred by God

Covetousness: Achan

Covetousness: Achan, in Hiding the Treasure

Covetousness: Ahab

Covetousness: Ahab, in Desiring Naboth's Vineyard

Covetousness: Ananias

Covetousness: Avoid Those Guilty of

Covetousness: Babylon

Covetousness: Balaam

Covetousness: Balaam, in Loving the Wages of Unrighteousness

Covetousness: Beware of

Covetousness: Comes from the Heart

Covetousness: Commended by the Wicked Alone

Covetousness: David, of Bath-Sheba

Covetousness: Demas in Forsaking Paul for Love of the World

Covetousness: Demetrius, in Raising a Riot Against Paul and Silas

Covetousness: Eli's Sons

Covetousness: Eli's Sons, in Taking the Flesh of the Sacrifice

Covetousness: Engrosses the Heart

Covetousness: Eve, in Desiring the Forbidden Fruit

Covetousness: Excludes from Heaven

Covetousness: Felix

Covetousness: Festus, in Hoping for a Bribe from Paul

Covetousness: Forbidden

Covetousness: Gehazi

Covetousness: Gehazi, in Taking a Gift from Naaman

Covetousness: General Scriptures Concerning

Covetousness: Hated by Saints

Covetousness: Jewish People

Covetousness: Judas

Covetousness: Judas, in Betraying Jesus for Twenty Pieces of Silver

Covetousness: Laban

Covetousness: Leads to Departure from the Faith

Covetousness: Leads to Domestic Affliction

Covetousness: Leads to Foolish and Hurtful Lusts

Covetousness: Leads to Injustice and Oppression

Covetousness: Leads to Lying

Covetousness: Leads to Misery

Covetousness: Leads to Murder

Covetousness: Leads to Poverty

Covetousness: Leads to Theft

Covetousness: Lot, in Choosing the Plain of the Jordan

Covetousness: Money-Changers in the Temple

Covetousness: Nobles of the Jews

Covetousness: Pharisees

Covetousness: Pray Against

Covetousness: Punishment of

Covetousness: Reward of Those Who Hate

Covetousness: Samuel's Sons

Covetousness: Samuel's Sons, in Taking Bribes

Covetousness: Saul

Covetousness: Saul, in Sparing, Agag and the Booty

Covetousness: Shall Abound in the Last Days

Covetousness: Simon Magus, in Trying to Buy the Gift of the Holy Spirit

Covetousness: The Pharisees

Covetousness: The Rich Fool

Covetousness: The Rich Young Ruler

Covetousness: The Sorcerers, in Filing Complaint Against Paul and Silas

Covetousness: The Unjust Steward

Covetousness: To be Mortified by Saints

Covetousness: Woe Denounced Against

Covetousness: Young Man

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