I replied: "You could have ascertained the parsimony of the wealthy only through the medium of your own beggary; otherwise to him who lays covetousness aside the generous man and miser seem all one.
Put covetousness aside, and be independent as a prince; the neck of contentment can raise its head erect.
If you desire her for a wife, myself and all other relations will be quite willing; and if for a mistress, we will not make any squeamish objections, provided you have money, for covetousness never departs from our ranchos.
The envy and covetousness of the rogues was excited, and they were always watching for an opportunity to steal me, for any way of making money by sport has great charms for many.
The imposture was exposed; and it came out how, through the hands of justice itself, the thieves had sold what they had stolen; and almost everybody rejoiced that my master's covetousness had made him burn his fingers.
Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, (to his church,) that he may set his nest on high: for he could not do the one before he had obtained the other.
Thus their covetousness hath set them on high, even above the suns, moons, and stars of this world: but to what end?
And for this covetousness also it is that this destruction is to fall upon him.
Let every man know that his covetousness will be laid to the charge of his own conscience, that he will have to answer for it, for God will not be deceived.
He should not bear the name without the works; he cannot be a Christian and yet live a heathenish life, a life of unchastity, covetousness and other vices.
Among these idle chatterers and misleading teachers the sluggards and drones should beware of being classified, who, with better light than the heathen, know full well that covetousness and unchastity are sin.
It must not be called covetousness or dishonest striving after property, but must be known as upright, legitimate endeavor to obtain a livelihood, a seeking to acquire property honestly.
Again, because of wantonness, covetousness and unchastity, the entire world was destroyed by the flood.
Where unfairness exists, covetousness must obtain to some extent.
In the last quoted clause Paul also implies that worldly conduct, the life of worldly lusts such as covetousness and other vices, is inconsistent and impossible with faith, and that the power of Christ's resurrection cannot reach it.
No civil government, no, nor a preacher even, can censure covetousness under that guise unless it be betrayed in gross robbing and stealing.
They cease to heed it and drown in lust, pride and covetousness of the world, being concerned entirely with accumulating wealth and seeking pleasure.
Indeed, such excess of covetousness obtains that the public robbing and stealing, and the faithlessness and fraud, of the meanest hirelings, servants and maids everywhere can no longer be restrained.
For some who seem wise are most fools, for all their wisdom they spill in covetousness and care about the world.
For whereso covetousness is, is no love of Christ.
A man or woman that is appointed to contemplative life, first GOD inspires them to forsake this world, and all the vanity and covetousness and vile lust thereof.
He lengthens life and saves from death, But love him not o'er well, God saith, For covetousness is woe.
The wheel that runs thus is for the punishment of covetousness that now reigns everywhere.
There are oak doors, oak cupboards, oak settles and tables, and an oak dresser, all with the polish of old age upon them and with much quaint carving; all of which is calculated to drive a connoisseur to covetousness and mental arithmetic.
The prince that wanteth understanding is also a great oppressor: but he that hateth covetousness shall prolong his days.
Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!
For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.
And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
Let us, as the Bible bids us, beware ofcovetousness even in the smallest matter.
But in the temptation on the mountain he counseled two sins--namely, covetousnessand idolatry.
Therefore Matthew unfittingly gives the last place to the temptation to covetousness on the mountain, and the second place to the temptation to vainglory in the Temple, especially since Luke puts them in the reverse order.
He undertook to preach to us yesterday, but from the aforesaid embarrassment, or the deadness, or the covetousness of the church, he could get none of the Spirit of the Lord to assist him.
The covenants being broken through transgression, bycovetousness and feigned words; 53.
Goltz does not dissimulate at present the covetousness as regards this group of confederates.
The disguised fairy, convinced of the woman's covetousnessby these repeated experiments, no longer restrained her indignation.
And so they were forced to turn their blame into public praise; for they said it was plain the Infant was another Alexander; and their covetousness now began to wax greater.
In the event recorded in the last chapter there seemeth to me a great mystery contained, for I know not whether it came about from the spirit of covetousness or from the wish to render service, or from the desire to gain honour.
Covetousness is a rust which will obscure and at last destroy the finest metal!
Voltaire's countenance darkened; his gay smile disappeared, and lines of selfishness and covetousness clouded the brow of the great poet.
Whatever was stored in granaries or hoarded in chambers, to answer the hopes of the avaricious husbandman, or the covetousness of the miser, all was deserted, or bartered for military equipments.
His habitual covetousness intruded however into the courtship, and had well-nigh subjected him to a sixth disappointment.
Truly, saith the Scripture; 'Woe unto him that coveteth an evil covetousness unto his house.
Covetousness includes more than the love of money.
If the ecclesiastics were checked in the pursuit of personal emolument, they would exert a more laudable industry to increase the wealth of the church; and dignify theircovetousness with the specious names of piety and patriotism.
Their covetousness arose from anxiety, which may have been occasioned by their distressing poverty in the days of Claudius.
They will put on the garb of religious decorum; but the inner life will be eaten by the canker of covetousness and self-righteous pride.
And is it then true," cried he, "that covetousness only is the soul of men?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "covetousness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
