covetousness

This teaches that covetousness is a state of mind and heart.

Above all, covetousness has enormous power and potential to destroy.

His eyes shone with covetousness at the sight of the animal.

An old-fashioned word for that would be covetousness, but I think we can also call it greed.

He urges the people to look for men of truth, who fear God and hate covetousness, to be their leaders.

Then, the larger the animal, the more it excites covetousness.

A cosmic course of covetousness covered my whole being.

The covetousness of township bureaucrats must be called just that, a sin.

O that all may take heed and beware of covetousness!

Neither is covetousness, whether as a temper or pursuit, any exception to this.

But the dread disease of covetousness afflicts even the very wealthy.

There is a widespread recognition of the reality of covetousness.

"Is there really a distinction between envy and covetousness?"

Unattractive as Edward's covetousness might be, it becomes the book's motivating force.

A person may give another the evil eye because of a feeling of jealousy or covetousness.

All this was put together by eight editors, all women, and mostly, they said, without covetousness to get even.

But along with it comes envy, covetousness, greed, all the seven deadly sins.

"Take care, and be on your guard against all covetousness, for one's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions."

But she found no covetousness in these faces.

Nor could bitter hatred for an enemy clan explain his covetousness.

Yet covetousness goes farther than material things alone.

The impulse to covetousness provides much of the subject matter for the human battles of their story lines.

Every nation and culture has sayings and proverbs about covetousness.

The war, on the part of Britain, was originally a war of covetousness.

He wanted knowledge to defend a fortress against the enemy, and his covetousness rendered him easy to corrupt.