Moral Concordance
S. Antonii de Padua Concordantiae Morales Sacorum Bibliorum
"Damned money! Alas! How many religious did it blind! How many cloistered religious did it deceive! Money is the 'droppings of birds' that blinded the eyes of Tobit."
Categories:
1. Against sin, absolutely.
2. Of the weight of sin.
3. Of the blindness of sin.
4. Of the hardness of sin.
5. Of the chains of sin.
6. Of new devices in sin.
7. Of gluttony.
8. Of drunkenness.
9. Against gluttony and drunkenness, in common.
10. Against daintiness in meats.
11. Against those who provoke to excessive eating and drinking.
12. Of temperance, or sobriety.
13. That the flesh must be subdued to the spirit; or of temperance and carnal, desires.
14. Of fasting.
15. Against indiscreet fasting.
16. Of a good feast.
17. Of good enebriation.
18. Of lasciviousness and its effects.
19. Of either fornication or riotess living.
20. Of spiritual fornication.
21. Against adultery.
22. Against either rape or deflowering.
23. Against prostitution.
24. Against incest.
25. Against womanizers.
26. Against sodomy.
27. Of a bad kiss.
28. Of a good kiss.
29. Of bad women.
30. Of good women.
31. That wives be submissive to husbands.
32. Of chastity or continence.
33. Of the twofold continence of mind and body.
34. Of virgins and virginity.
35. Against excessive confidence in continence.
36. Of widows and widowhood.
37. Of joining together and marriage.
38. Against opponents of marriage.
39. Against covetousness.
40. Against fraudulent buying, selling or negotiation.
41. Against bad loans or usurers
42. Of good loans or good lenders.
43. Against seeking and retaining earthly abundance.
44. Against those that keep back the pay of their labourers.
45. Against theft and thieves.
46. Against sacrilege.
47. Against holding back tithes, first-fruits and offerings.
48. Against simoniacs or simony.
49. Against the four sins crying to God.
50. That robbers and usurers have to restitute or recompense damages.
Scripture:
Against prostitution.
| Deut 23:2 | A mamzer, that is to say, one born of a prostitute, shall not enter into the church of the Lord, until the tenth generation. |
| Deut 23:17 | There shall be no whore among the daughters of Israel, nor whoremonger among the sons of Israel. |
| Prov 5:3 | For the lips of a harlot are like a honeycomb dropping, and her throat is smoother than oil. |
| Prov 6:26 | For the price of a harlot is scarce one loaf: but the woman catcheth the precious soul of a man. |
| Prov 7:10 | And behold a woman meeteth him in harlot's attire prepared to deceive souls; talkative and wandering, |
| Prov 7:21 | She entangled him with many words, and drew him away with the flattery of her lips. |
| Prov 14:1 | A wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish will pull down with her hands that also which is built. |
| Prov 23:27 | For a harlot is a deep ditch: and a strange woman is a narrow pit. |
| Eccli 9:10 | Every woman that is a harlot, shall be trodden upon as dung in the way. |
| Isa 1:21 | How is the faithful city, that was full of judgment, become a harlot? justice dwelt in it, but now murderers. |
| Jer 2:20 | Of old time thou hast broken my yoke, thou hast burst my bands, and thou saidst: I will not serve. For on every high hill, and under every green tree thou didst prostitute thyself. |
| Jer 3:1 | It is commonly said: If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and marry another man, shall he return to her any more? shall not that woman be polluted, and defiled? but thou hast prostituted thyself to many lovers: nevertheless return to me, saith the Lord, and I will receive thee. |
| Ezech 16:23 | And it came to pass after all thy wickedness (woe, woe to thee, saith the Lord God) |
| I Cor 6:15-16 | Know you not that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid. |