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."

St. Anthony of Padua (A.D. 1195-1231)

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Gen 14:21 And the king of Sodom said to Abram: Give me the persons, and the rest take to thyself.
Gen 37:28 And when the Madianite merchants passed by, they drew him out of the pit, and sold him to the Ismaelites, for twenty pieces of silver: and they led him into Egypt.
Lev 19:35 Do not any unjust thing in judgment, in rule, in weight, or in measure.
Deut 25:13 Thou shalt not have divers weights in thy bag, a greater and a less:
Esth 7:10 So Aman was hanged on the gibbet, which he had prepared for Mardochai: and the king's wrath ceased.
Ps 7:16 He hath opened a pit and dug it; and he is fallen into the hole he made.
Prov 1:11 If they shall say: Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us hide snares for the innocent without cause:
Prov 20:10 Diverse weights and diverse measures, both are abominable before God.
Prov 20:14 It is nought, it is nought, saith every buyer: and when he is gone away, then he will boast.
Prov 26:27 He that diggeth a pit, shall fall into it: and he that rolleth a stone, it shall return to him.
Eccli 26:28 Two sorts of callings have appeared to me hard and dangerous: a merchant is hardly free from negligence: and a huckster shall not be justified from the sins of the lips.
Eccli 27:1-2 Through poverty many have sinned: and he that seeketh to be enriched, turneth away his eye.
Isa 5:20 Woe to you that call evil good, and good evil: that put darkness for light, and light for darkness: that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter.
Isa 24:2 And it shall be as with the people, so with the priest: and as with the servant, so with his master: as with the handmaid, so with her mistress: as with the buyer, so with the seller: as with the lender, so with the borrower: as with him that calleth for his money, so with him that oweth.
Jer 9:5 And a man shall mock his brother, and they will not speak the truth: for they have taught their tongue to speak lies: they have laboured to commit iniquity.
Jer 9:8 Their tongue is a piercing arrow, it hath spoken deceit: with his mouth one speaketh peace with his friend, and secretly he lieth in wait for him.
Jer 9:15 Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Behold I will feed this people with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.
Osee 11:12 Ephraim hath compassed me about with denials, and the house of Israel with deceit: but Juda went down as a witness with God, and is faithful with the saints.
Osee 12:7 He is like Chanaan, there is a deceitful balance in his hand, he hath loved oppression.
Amos 8:5 Saying: When will the month be over, and we shall sell our wares: and the sabbath, and we shall open the corn: that we may lessen the measure, and increase the sicle, and may convey in deceitful balances,
Nah 3:1 Woe to thee, O city of blood, all full of lies and violence: rapine shall not depart from thee.
Mt 8:20 And Jesus saith to him: The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air nests: but the son of man hath not where to lay his head.
Apoc 18:11 And the merchants of the earth shall weep, and mourn over her: for no man shall buy their merchandise any more.
Apoc 18:15-16 The merchants of these things, who were made rich, shall stand afar off from her, for fear of her torments, weeping and mourning.
Apoc 18:23 And the light of the lamp shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth, for all nations have been deceived by thy enchantments.