Moral Concordance
S. Antonii de Padua Concordantiae Morales Sacorum Bibliorum
"Damned money! Alas! How many religious did it blind! How many cloistered religious did it deceive! Money is the 'droppings of birds' that blinded the eyes of Tobit."
Categories:
1. Against sin, absolutely.
2. Of the weight of sin.
3. Of the blindness of sin.
4. Of the hardness of sin.
5. Of the chains of sin.
6. Of new devices in sin.
7. Of gluttony.
8. Of drunkenness.
9. Against gluttony and drunkenness, in common.
10. Against daintiness in meats.
11. Against those who provoke to excessive eating and drinking.
12. Of temperance, or sobriety.
13. That the flesh must be subdued to the spirit; or of temperance and carnal, desires.
14. Of fasting.
15. Against indiscreet fasting.
16. Of a good feast.
17. Of good enebriation.
18. Of lasciviousness and its effects.
19. Of either fornication or riotess living.
20. Of spiritual fornication.
21. Against adultery.
22. Against either rape or deflowering.
23. Against prostitution.
24. Against incest.
25. Against womanizers.
26. Against sodomy.
27. Of a bad kiss.
28. Of a good kiss.
29. Of bad women.
30. Of good women.
31. That wives be submissive to husbands.
32. Of chastity or continence.
33. Of the twofold continence of mind and body.
34. Of virgins and virginity.
35. Against excessive confidence in continence.
36. Of widows and widowhood.
37. Of joining together and marriage.
38. Against opponents of marriage.
39. Against covetousness.
40. Against fraudulent buying, selling or negotiation.
41. Against bad loans or usurers
42. Of good loans or good lenders.
43. Against seeking and retaining earthly abundance.
44. Against those that keep back the pay of their labourers.
45. Against theft and thieves.
46. Against sacrilege.
47. Against holding back tithes, first-fruits and offerings.
48. Against simoniacs or simony.
49. Against the four sins crying to God.
50. That robbers and usurers have to restitute or recompense damages.
Scripture:
| Gen 1:21 | And God created the great whales, and every living and moving creature, which the waters brought forth, according to their kinds, and every winged fowl according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. |
| Gen 9:2 | And let the fear and dread of you be upon all the beasts of the earth, and upon all the fowls of the air, and all that move upon the earth: all the fishes of the sea are delivered into your hand. |
| Gen 10:8 | Now Chus begot Nemrod: he began to be mighty on the earth. |
| Gen 10:10 | And the beginning of his kingdom was Babylon, and Arach, and Achad, and Chalanne in the land of Sennaar. |
| Gen 28:11 | And when he was come to a certain place, and would rest in it after sunset, he took of the stones that lay there, and putting under his head, slept in the same place. |
| Gen 40:14 | Only remember me, when it shall be well with thee, and do me this kindness: to put Pharao in mind to take me out of this prison: |
| Job 5:3 | I have seen a fool with a strong root, and I cursed his beauty immediately. |
| Job 15:21 | The sound of dread is always in his ears: and when there is peace, he always suspecteth treason. |
| Job 21:7 | Why then do the wicked live, are they advanced, and strengthened with riches? |
| Job 27:18 | He hath built his house as a moth, and as a keeper he hath made a booth. |
| Ps 13:5 | They have not called upon the Lord: there have they trembled for fear, where there was no fear. |
| Eccles 6:2 | A man to whom God hath given riches, and substance, and honour, and his soul wanteth nothing of all that he desireth: yet God doth not give him power to eat thereof, but a stranger shall eat it up. This is vanity and a great misery. |
| Wis 5:8 | What hath pride profited us? or what advantage hath the boasting of riches brought us? |
| Wis 6:6 | Horribly and speedily will he appear to you: for a most severe judgment shall be for them that bear rule. |
| Eccli 31:8 | Blessed is the rich man that is found without blemish: and that hath not gone after gold, nor put his trust in money nor in treasures. |
| Isa 13:17 | Behold I will stir up the Medes against them, who shall not seek silver, nor desire gold: |
| Isa 28:1 | WOE to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower the glory of his joy, who were on the head of the fat valley, staggering with wine. |
| Isa 40:4 | Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked shall become straight, and the rough ways plain. |
| Isa 43:6 | I will say to the north: Give up: and to the south: Keep not back: bring my sons from afar, and my daughters from the ends of the earth. |
| Jer 17:5 | Thus saith the Lord: Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord. |
| Jer 48:1 | Against Moab thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Woe to Nabo, for it is laid waste, and confounded: Cariathaim is taken: the strong city is confounded and hath trembled. |
| Osee 12:7 | He is like Chanaan, there is a deceitful balance in his hand, he hath loved oppression. |
| Joel 1:5 | Awake, ye that are drunk, and weep, and mourn all ye that take delight in drinking sweet wine: for it is cut off from your mouth. |
| Lk 6:24 | But woe to you that are rich: for you have your consolation. |
| Lk 8:14 | And that which fell among thorns, are they who have heard, and going their way, are choked with the cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and yield no fruit. |
| Jn 14:30 | I will not now speak many things with you. For the prince of this world cometh, and in me he hath not any thing. |
| Jas 4:4 | Adulterers, know you not that the friendship of this world is the enemy of God? Whosoever therefore will be a friend of this world, becometh an enemy of God. |
| Jas 5:1 | Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl in your miseries, which shall come upon you. |