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Luke 12:15
Amplified Bible, Classic Edition
Luke 12:15
Amplified Bible, Classic Edition
15 And He said to them, Guard yourselves and keep free from all covetousness (the immoderate desire for wealth, the greedy longing to have more); for a man’s life does not consist in and is not derived from possessing [a]overflowing abundance or that which is [b]over and above his needs.
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- Luke 12:15 Alexander Souter, Pocket Lexicon.
- Luke 12:15 G. Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon.
Colossians 3:5
Amplified Bible, Classic Edition
Colossians 3:5
Amplified Bible, Classic Edition
5 So kill (deaden, [a]deprive of power) the evil desire lurking in your members [those animal impulses and all that is earthly in you that is employed in sin]: sexual vice, impurity, sensual appetites, unholy desires, and all greed and covetousness, for that is idolatry (the deifying of self and other created things instead of God).
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- Colossians 3:5 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon.
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