Both and – refer to covetousness, but there appears to be a marked distinction between them. (from and , ‘to have more’) is not confined to money, and is often connected with open wickedness, the force of the word being ‘desiring more (than is necessary),’ and hence ‘an over-reaching to get,’ and is thus applied to the lusts of the flesh, Rom 1:29; Eph 4:19, where it is translated ‘greediness’; Eph 5:3; etc. It is declared to be idolatry, Col 3:5<\/p>\n
On the other hand, (from and ) literally ‘love of money,’ is the miser’s sin, and may be indulged in with a profession of religion. Thus in Luk 16:14 it is applied to the Pharisees, and in 2Ti 3:2 to those who had a form of godliness, but denied the power thereof. This love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, 1Ti 6:10, and those who go after it are liable to wander away from the faith, and to pierce themselves through with many sorrows<\/p>\n
5. COVETOUSNESS. LOVE OF MONEY Both and – refer to covetousness, but there appears to be a marked distinction between them. (from and , ‘to have more’) is not confined to money, and is often connected with open wickedness, the force of the word being ‘desiring more (than is necessary),’ and hence ‘an over-reaching to … Continue reading “5. COVETOUSNESS. LOVE OF MONEY”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}