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Example sentences for "filthy lucre"

  • Many parents (but we don't call such Christians,) sacrifice their children upon the altar of mammon, and prostitute their earthly and eternal happiness to their love of filthy lucre.

  • When man becomes greedy of filthy lucre—loves money—he can be influenced by it and thus be led to favor the rich.

  • This is filthy lucre properly so called, because the practice of whoredom is filthy and against the Law of God, yet the woman does not act unjustly or unlawfully in taking the money.

  • But the profits from whoredom are filthy lucre; wherefore it was forbidden (Deut.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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