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  2. Matthew 6:24 - Wikipedia

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    In Matthew, the previous verses imply it can mean placing anything above God. Leon Morris notes that the Greek: δουλεύειν, douleuein, translated as serve, literally means be a slave to, unlike in Luke where the reference is to servants. [1] The Holman Christian Standard Bible translated the phrase as "No one can be a slave of two ...

  3. Mammon - Wikipedia

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    The Revised Standard Version of the Bible says it is "a Semitic word for money or riches". [13] The International Children's Bible (ICB) uses the wording "You cannot serve God and money at the same time". [14] Christians began to use "mammon" as a term that was used to describe gluttony, excessive materialism, greed, and unjust worldly gain.

  4. Woes of the Pharisees - Wikipedia

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    These are found in Matthew 23 verses 13–16, 23, 25, 27 and 29. Only six are given in Luke, whose version is thus known as the six woes: three are directed to the Pharisees and three to the scribes. [2] The woes mostly criticise the Pharisees for hypocrisy and perjury. They illustrate the differences between inner and outer moral states. [1]

  5. Seven deadly sins - Wikipedia

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    The concepts of the sins involved were in part based on Greco-Roman and Biblical antecedents. Later, the concept of seven deadly sins evolved further, based upon historical context based upon the Latin language of the Roman Catholic Church, though with a significant influence from the Greek language and associated religious traditions.

  6. Parable of the Rich Fool - Wikipedia

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    Christ does not here deny that He has judicial power, for He was the King of kings and the Lord of lords; but He wished to use His power over a covetous man to cure him of his greed, and to teach him to prefer heavenly to earthly things, and to give way willingly to them, according to His own words, 6:29, “From him that takes away thy cloak ...

  7. 35 Bible Verses About Grief to Help You Mourn the Loss of a ...

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    These Bible verses about grief serve as a reminder that God is with you, offering support during the days when sorrow seems overwhelming. Deuteronomy 31:8 “But the Lord is the one who is ...

  8. Love of money - Wikipedia

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    (The full verse is shown but Bold added being the subject of this page.) Another popular text, the New International Version has "For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil...." During the Reformation, Martin Luther (1483–1546) translated the Latin Vulgate Bible into German, and 1 Timothy 6:10 "Die Habsucht ist die Wurzel allen Übels.

  9. Jewish views on sin - Wikipedia

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    In several Biblical verses, a person confesses to several such categories of sin one after the other. [8] According to the rabbis, these terms refer to sins of different severities: ḥeṭ refers to unintentional sin, avon to intentional sin (not done to defy God), and pesha to rebellion. [9]

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