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:
Of joining together and marriage.
| Gen 1:22 | And he blessed them, saying: Increase and multiply, and fill the waters of the sea: and let the birds be multiplied upon the earth. |
| Gen 2:24 | Wherefore a man shall leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they shall be two in one flesh. |
| Gen 7:1 | And the Lord said to him: Go in thou and all thy house into the ark: for thee I have seen just before me in this generation. |
| Gen 8:16 | Go out of the ark, thou and thy wife, thy sons, and the wives of thy sons with thee. |
| Deut 7:2 | And the Lord thy God shall have delivered them to thee, thou shalt utterly destroy them. Thou shalt make no league with them, nor shew mercy to them: |
| Deut 28:56 | The tender and delicate woman, that could not go upon the ground, nor set down her foot for over much niceness and tenderness, will envy her husband who lieth in her bosom, the flesh of her son, and of her daughter, |
| Tob 6:16 | Then the angel Raphael said to him: Hear me, and I will shew thee who they are, over whom the devil can prevail. |
| Tob 6:22 | And when the third night is past, thou shalt take the virgin with the fear of the Lord, moved rather for love of children than for lust, that in the seed of Abraham thou mayst obtain a blessing in children. |
| Prov 12:4 | A diligent woman is a crown to her husband: and she that doth things worthy of confusion, is a rottenness in his bones. |
| Eccles 3:5 | A time to scatter stones, and a time to gather. A time to embrace, and a time to be far from embraces. |
| Eccli 22:4 | A wise daughter shall bring an inheritance to her husband: but she that confoundeth, becometh a disgrace to her father. |
| Eccli 25:1 | With three things my spirit is pleased, which are approved before God and men: |
| Eccli 40:23 | A friend and companion meeting together in season, but above them both is a wife with her husband. |
| Osee 1:3 | So he went, and took Gomer the daughter of Debelaim: and she conceived and bore him a son. |
| Mt 1:18 | Now the generation of Christ was in this wise. When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child, of the Holy Ghost. |
| Jn 2:1 | And the third day, there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee: and the mother of Jesus was there. |
| I Cor 7:3 | Let the husband render the debt to his wife, and the wife also in like manner to the husband. |
| I Cor 7:27-29 | Art thou bound to a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife. |
| I Cor 7:33-34 | But he that is with a wife, is solicitous for the things of the world, how he may please his wife: and he is divided. |