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:

Deut 33:29 Blessed art thou, Israel: who is like to thee, O people, that art saved by the Lord? the shield of thy help, and the sword of thy glory: thy enemies shall deny thee, and thou shalt tread upon their necks.
I Ki 17:45 And David said to the Philistine: Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, which thou hast defied.
II Par 20:12 O our God, wilt thou not then judge them? as for us we have not strength enough, to be able to resist this multitude, which cometh violently upon us. But as we know not what to do, we can only turn our eyes to thee.
II Par 20:20 And they rose early in the morning, and went out through the desert of Thecua: and as they were marching, Josaphat standing in the midst of them, said: Hear me, ye men of Juda, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem: believe in the Lord your God, and you shall be secure: believe his prophets, and all things shall succeed well.
Prov 3:5 Have confidence in the Lord with all thy heart, and lean not upon thy own prudence.
Wis 3:9 They that trust in him, shall understand the truth: and they that are faithful in love shall rest in him: for grace and peace is to his elect.
Isa 40:31 But they that hope in the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall take wings as eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.
Isa 42:5 Thus saith the Lord God that created the heavens, and stretched them out: that established the earth, and the things that spring out of it: that giveth breath to the people upon it, and spirit to them that tread thereon.
Isa 50:7 The Lord God is my helper, therefore am I not confounded: therefore have I set my face as a most hard rock, and I know that I shall not be confounded.
Jer 7:14 I will do to this house, in which my name is called upon, and in which you trust, and to the place which I have given you and your fathers, as I did to Silo.
Jer 17:7 Blessed be the man that trusteth in the Lord, and the Lord shall be his confidence.
II Cor 7:4 Great is my confidence for you, great is my glorying for you. I am filled with comfort: I exceedingly abound with joy in all our tribulation.
Heb 4:16 Let us go therefore with confidence to the throne of grace: that we may obtain mercy, and find grace in seasonable aid.