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."

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III Ki 21:18 Arise, and go down to meet Achab king of Israel, who is in Samaria: behold he is going down to the vineyard of Naboth, to take possession of it:
Job 20:15 The riches which he hath swallowed, he shall vomit up, and God shall draw them out of his belly.
Job 27:16 If he shall heap together silver as earth, and prepare raiment as clay,
Ps 4:3 O ye sons of men, how long will you be dull of heart? why do you love vanity, and seek after lying?
Ps 48:18 For when he shall die he shall take nothing away; nor shall his glory descend with him.
Ps 61:11 Trust not in iniquity, and cover not robberies: if riches abound, set not your heart upon them.
Ps 75:6 All the foolish of heart were troubled. They have slept their sleep; and all the men of riches have found nothing in their hands.
Prov 10:2 Treasures of wickedness shall profit nothing: but justice shall deliver from death.
Prov 11:4 Riches shall not profit in the day of revenge: but justice shall deliver from death.
Prov 15:16 Better is a little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasures without content.
Wis 5:8 What hath pride profited us? or what advantage hath the boasting of riches brought us?
Eccli 11:11 There is an ungodly man that laboureth, and maketh haste, and is in sorrow, and is so much the more in want.
Ezech 7:19 Their silver shall be cast forth, and their gold shall become a dunghill. Their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the Lord. They shall not satisfy their soul, and their bellies shall not be filled: because it hath been the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
Amos 5:11 Therefore because you robbed the poor, and took the choice prey from him: you shall build houses with square stone, and shall not dwell in them: you shall plant most delightful vineyards, and shall not drink the wine of them.
Mich 6:10 As yet there is a fire in the house of the wicked, the treasures of iniquity, and a scant measure full of wrath.
Soph 1:18 Neither shall their silver and their gold be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the Lord: all the land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy, for he shall make even a speedy destruction of all them that dwell in the land.
Lk 12:20 But God said to him: Thou fool, this night do they require thy soul of thee: and whose shall those things be which thou hast provided?
I Tim 6:17 Charge the rich of this world not to be highminded, nor to trust in the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, (who giveth us abundantly all things to enjoy,)