A faithful man will have many blessings, but one in a hurry to get rich will not go unpunished.

But those who want to be rich fall into temptation, a trap, and many foolish and harmful desires, which plunge people into ruin and destruction.

Don't eat a stingy person's bread, and don't desire his choice food,

Don't I have the right to do what I want with my business? Are you jealous because I'm generous?'

adulteries, greed, evil actions, deceit, lewdness, stinginess, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.

Lot looked out and saw that the entire Jordan Valley as far as Zoar was well-watered everywhere like the LORD's garden and the land of Egypt. This was before God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.

Abram lived in the land of Canaan, but Lot lived in the cities of the valley and set up his tent near Sodom.

As soon as the angels got them outside, one of them said, "Run for your lives! Don't look back and don't stop anywhere on the plain! Run to the mountains, or you will be swept away!"

He must return the fruit of his labor without consuming [it]; he doesn't enjoy the profits from his trading.

Because his appetite is never satisfied, he does not escape his desires.

At the height of his success distress will come to him; the full weight of misery will crush him.

Though he piles up silver like dust and heaps up a wardrobe like clay--

he may heap [it] up, but the righteous will wear [it], and the innocent will divide up his silver.