{"query": "Easton: Covetousness", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_c922bbf2ea73", "title": "Easton: Covetousness", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A strong desire after the possession of worldly things (Col. 3:5; Eph. 5:5; Heb. 13:5; 1 Tim. 6:9, 10; Matt. 6:20). It assumes sometimes the more aggravated form of avarice, which is the mark of cold-"}, {"id": "card_c_m_f433d1ae8874", "title": "Matthew cites Easton: Covetousness", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Matthew cites Easton: Covetousness."}, {"id": "card_src_comm_isaiah_57_17", "title": "Matthew Henry on Isaiah 57:17", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Isaiah 57:17 — The body of the people of Israel, in this account of God's dealings with them, is spoken of as a particular person (Isa 57:17, Isa 57:18), but divided into two sorts, differently dea"}, {"id": "card_src_word_covetousness", "title": "covetousness", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "covetousness: (noun) an envious eagerness to possess something · (noun) extreme greed for material wealth — syn: avarice, avariciousness, cupidity · (noun) reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable de"}, {"id": "card_n_f2924f2030c7", "title": "Easton: Adultery", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Conjugal infidelity. An adulterer was a man who had illicit intercourse with a married or a betrothed woman, and such a woman was an adulteress. Intercourse between a married man and an unmarried woma"}, {"id": "card_c_b6d96e872225", "title": "Easton: Covetousness references Matthew", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Matthew. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_src_comm_proverbs_28_16", "title": "Matthew Henry on Proverbs 28:16", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Proverbs 28:16 — Two things are here intimated to be the causes of the mal-administration of princes: - 1. The love of money, that root of all evil; for hating covetousness here stands opposed to o"}, {"id": "card_src_word_avarice", "title": "avarice", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "avarice: (noun) reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins) — syn: greed, covetousness, rapacity, avaritia · (noun) extreme greed for material w"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_luke_12_22", "title": "Matthew Henry on Luke 12:22", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Luke 12:22 — Our Lord Jesus is here inculcating some needful useful lessons upon his disciples, which he had before taught them, and had occasion afterwards to press upon them; for they need to hav"}, {"id": "card_n_9020bfa8475b", "title": "Polycarp to the Philippians XI", "shelf": "patristics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "I am greatly grieved for Valens, who was once a presbyter among you, because he so little understands the place that was given him [in the church]. I exhort you, therefore, that ye abstain from coveto"}, {"id": "card_src_word_avariciousness", "title": "avariciousness", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "avariciousness: (noun) extreme greed for material wealth — syn: avarice, covetousness, cupidity"}, {"id": "card_src_word_cupidity", "title": "cupidity", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "cupidity: (noun) extreme greed for material wealth — syn: avarice, avariciousness, covetousness"}, {"id": "card_src_word_avaritia", "title": "avaritia", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "avaritia: (noun) reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins) — syn: avarice, greed, covetousness, rapacity"}, {"id": "card_src_word_rapacity", "title": "rapacity", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "rapacity: (noun) extreme gluttony — syn: edacity, esurience, rapaciousness, voracity, voraciousness · (noun) reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the dead"}, {"id": "card_src_lex_h8378", "title": "H8378 — תַּאֲוָה (ta.a.vah): desire", "shelf": "lexicon", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "תַּאֲוָה (ta.a.vah), Strong's H8378: desire. 1) desire 1a) desire, wish, longings of one's heart 1a1) lust, appetite, covetousness (bad sense) 1b) thing desired, object of desire"}, {"id": "card_src_lex_g5365", "title": "G5365 — φιλαργυρία (philarguria): love of money", "shelf": "lexicon", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "φιλαργυρία (philarguria), Strong's G5365: love of money. φιλαργυρία , -ας, ἡ (φιλάργυρος), [in LXX: 4Ma.1:26 4Mac 2:15 א1 * ;] love of money, avarice : 1Ti.6:1. † SYN. : πλεονεξία, covetousness (see T"}, {"id": "card_src_word_greed", "title": "greed", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "greed: (noun) excessive desire to acquire or possess more (especially more material wealth) than one needs or deserves · (noun) reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified"}, {"id": "card_src_lex_g4124", "title": "G4124 — πλεονεξία (pleonexia): greediness", "shelf": "lexicon", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "πλεονεξία (pleonexia), Strong's G4124: greediness. πλεονεξία , -ας, ἡ (πλεονέκτης), [in LXX for בֶּצַע ;] the character and conduct of a πλεονέκτης. __1. advantage. __2. desire for advantage, grasping"}, {"id": "card_n_fef98224a746", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_066: Thus then have I considered the sicknesses of my sins in that threefold concu...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Thus then have I considered the sicknesses of my sins in that threefold concupiscence, and have called Thy right hand to my help. For with a wounded heart have I beheld Thy brightness, and stricken ba"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_ephesians_5_3", "title": "Matthew Henry on Ephesians 5:3", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Ephesians 5:3 — These verses contain a caution against all manner of uncleanness, with proper remedies and arguments proposed: some further cautions are added, and other duties recommended. Filthy "}]}