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Virtues and Vices, Part 8: Covetousness: Good vs. Bad

// March 20th, 2010 // Bible Study, Mark's stuff

By David Watson

Benchley, March 14, 2010

• Applications, continued:
  • Covet God’s Word
    • Create interest in God’s Word
    • Ask for help.  Acts 8:26-40
    • Consider the value.  Romans 2:16
  • Covet good works.
    • I Timothy 3:1; Matthew 22:37
  • Don’t covet one who’s not your spouse.
    • Matthew 5:27-28; Exodus 20:14,17; Genesis 12:11; Esther 2:2-4,12-13; II Samuel 11:2; 13:3-4,14; Mark 6:22-23; Proverbs 6:25; I Corinthians 7:8-9 – Warnings and consequences of coveting women.
  • Don’t (inordinately) covet material goods.
    • Deuteronomy 7:25; Joshua 6:16-19; 7:20-21