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Today for a few moments I invite you on the journey with us as we consider three perspectives of this sin and hindrance called covetousness.
Preachers of the Future: Three Sermons From Young Christians Bryan Maygers 2011
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Today for a few moments I invite you on the journey with us as we consider three perspectives of this sin and hindrance called covetousness.
Preachers of the Future: Three Sermons From Young Christians Bryan Maygers 2011
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Now as regards goods having the aspect of utility, there is but one capital vice, namely covetousness.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas
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Fame, honor, worldly pleasures, gratification of unholy appetites and passions, may be properly termed covetousness.
The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity Charles Ebert Orr 1897
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And this, perhaps, is that which is most frequently in Scripture called covetousness.
The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 05. 1630-1694 1820
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Those that would be kept from sinful actions must mortify and check in themselves sinful desires, particularly the desire of worldly wealth, which we more particularly call covetousness.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume II (Joshua to Esther) 1721
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"covetousness." cursed children -- rather as Greek, "children of curse," that is, devoted to the curse.
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