coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness.
Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or do you begrudge my generosity?’
Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”
For this is the will of God, that by doing good you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish people.
We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ,
but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rock, in your lofty dwelling, who say in your heart, “Who will bring me down to the ground?” Though you soar aloft like the eagle, though your nest is set among the stars, from there I will bring you down, declares the Lord.
I turned my heart to know and to search out and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know the wickedness of folly and the foolishness that is madness.
A stingy man hastens after wealth and does not know that poverty will come upon him.
Crush a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, yet his folly will not depart from him.
The devising of folly is sin, and the scoffer is an abomination to mankind.
Do not eat the bread of a man who is stingy; do not desire his delicacies,
Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
A prudent man conceals knowledge, but the heart of fools proclaims folly.
In the pride of his face the wicked does not seek him; all his thoughts are, “There is no God.”
And so in the matter of the envoys of the princes of Babylon, who had been sent to him to inquire about the sign that had been done in the land, God left him to himself, in order to test him and to know all that was in his heart.
But Hezekiah did not make return according to the benefit done to him, for his heart was proud. Therefore wrath came upon him and Judah and Jerusalem. But Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the Lord did not come upon them in the days of Hezekiah.
And Saul was very angry, and this saying displeased him. He said, “They have ascribed to David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed thousands, and what more can he have but the kingdom?” And Saul eyed David from that day on.
The most tender and refined woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because she is so delicate and tender, will begrudge to the husband she embraces, to her son and to her daughter,
The man who is the most tender and refined among you will begrudge food to his brother, to the wife he embraces, and to the last of the children whom he has left,
Take care lest there be an unworthy thought in your heart and you say, ‘The seventh year, the year of release is near,’ and your eye look grudgingly on your poor brother, and you give him nothing, and he cry to the Lord against you, and you be guilty of sin.
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