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."

St. Anthony of Padua (A.D. 1195-1231)

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 lasciviousness and its effects.

It abhors the light.
Job 24:17 If the morning suddenly appear, it is to them the shadow of death: and they walk in darkness as if it were in light.
Jn 3:20 For every one that doth evil hateth the light, and cometh not to the light, that his works may not be reproved.
It beguiles the learned.
Eccli 9:1 Be not jealous over the wife of thy bosom, lest she shew in thy regard the malice of a wicked lesson.
Eccli 19:2 Wine and women make wise men fall off, and shall rebuke the prudent:
It breaks contracts.
II Ki 11:3 And the king sent, and inquired who the woman was. And it was told him, that she was Bethsabee the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Urias the Hethite.
Eccli 23:32 So every woman also that leaveth her husband, and bringeth in an heir by another:
It burns and deserts virtues.
Job 31:12 It is a fire that devoureth even to destruction, and rooteth up all things that spring.
Prov 6:27 Can a man hide fire in his bosom, and his garments not burn?
It burns the mind.
Eccli 9:11 Many by admiring the beauty of another man's wife, have become reprobate, for her conversation burneth as fire.
Osee 7:4 They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by the baker: the city rested a little from the mingling of the leaven, till the whole was leavened.
It closes the gates of Heaven.
I Cor 6:9 Know you not that the unjust shall not possess the kingdom of God? Do not err: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers,
Gal 5:19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are fornication, uncleanness, immodesty, luxury,
It clouds the light of reason.
Dan 13:9 And they perverted their own mind and turned away their eyes that they might not look unto heaven, nor remember just judgments.
It compels enslavement.
Lk 15:15 And he went and cleaved to one of the citizens of that country. And he sent him into his farm to feed swine.
It corrupts a good name.
Eccli 47:22 Thou hast stained thy glory, and defiled thy seed so as to bring wrath upon thy children, and to have thy folly kindled,
It corrupts.
Prov 6:29 So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife, shall not be clean when he shall touch her.
Joel 1:17 The beasts have rotted in their dung, the barns are destroyed, the storehouses are broken down: because the corn is confounded.
Apoc 14:4 These are they who were not defiled with women: for they are virgins. These follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were purchased from among men, the firstfruits to God and to the Lamb:
It damns.
Prov 2:18 And hath forgotten the covenant of her God: for her house inclineth unto death, and her paths to hell.
Prov 5:5 Her feet go down into death, and her steps go in as far as hell.
Prov 6:26 For the price of a harlot is scarce one loaf: but the woman catcheth the precious soul of a man.
Prov 6:32 But he that is an adulterer, for the folly of his heart shall destroy his own soul:
Prov 7:27 Her house is the way to hell, reaching even to the inner chambers of death.
Eccli 19:3 And he that joineth himself to harlots, will be wicked. Rottenness and worms shall inherit him, and he shall be lifted up for a greater example, and his soul shall be taken away out of the number.
Heb 13:4 Marriage honourable in all, and the bed undefiled. For fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
II Pet 2:9 The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly from temptation, but to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be tormented.
It ensnares.
Prov 7:21 She entangled him with many words, and drew him away with the flattery of her lips.
Eccles 7:27 And I have found a woman more bitter than death, who is the hunter's snare, and her heart is a net, and her hands are bands. He that pleaseth God shall escape from her: but he that is a sinner, shall be caught by her.
Eccli 9:3 Look not upon a woman that hath a mind for many: lest thou fall into her snares.
It equates man to a beast.
Ps 48:13 And man when he was in honour did not understand; he is compared to senseless beasts, and is become like to them.
Jer 5:8 They are become as amorous horses and stallions: every one neighed after his neighbour's wife.
It gives joy to the enemy.
Eccli 18:31 If thou give to thy soul her desires, she will make thee a joy to thy enemies.
It is insatiable.
Prov 30:15 The horseleech hath two daughters that say: Bring, bring. There are three things that never are satisfied, and the fourth never saith: It is enough.
Osee 4:10 And they shall eat and shall not be filled: they have committed fornication, and have not ceased: because they have forsaken the Lord in not observing his law.
It is Satan's food.
Lk 15:16 And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks the swine did eat; and no man gave unto him.
It loves darkness.
Job 24:15 The eye of the adulterer observeth darkness, saying: No eye shall see me: and he will cover his face.
Ps 48:21 Man when he was in honour did not understand: he hath been compared to senseless beasts, and made like to them.
Prov 7:9 In the dark, when it grows late, in the darkness and obscurity of the night,
Eccli 23:26 Darkness compasseth me about, and the walls cover me, and no man seeth me: whom do I fear? the most High will not remember my sins.
It loves idleness.
Jer 48:11 Moab hath been fruitful from his youth, and hath rested upon his lees: and hath not been poured out from vessel to vessel, nor hath gone into captivity: therefore his taste hath remained in him, and his scent is not changed.
It makes one prone to lying.
Jer 9:2 Who will give me in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men, and I will leave my people, and depart from them? because they are all adulterers, an assembly of transgressors.
It makes unworthy of the Body of Christ.
I Cor 11:29 For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh judgment to himself, not discerning the body of the Lord.
Heb 13:10 We have an altar, whereof they have no power to eat who serve the tabernacle.
It perishes.
Gen 19:15 And when it was morning, the angels pressed him, saying: Arise, take thy wife, and the two daughters which thou hast: lest thou also perish in the wickedness of the city.
Prov 7:22 Immediately he followeth her as an ox led to be a victim, and as a lamb playing the wanton, and not knowing that he is drawn like a fool to bonds,
Prov 22:14 The mouth of a strange woman is a deep pit: he whom the Lord is angry with, shall fall into it.
Prov 23:27 For a harlot is a deep ditch: and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
Eccli 9:9 For many have perished by the beauty of a woman, and hereby lust is enkindled as a fire.
It plunders the heart.
Dan 13:56 And having put him aside, he commanded that the other should come, and he said to him: O thou seed of Chanaan, and not of Juda, beauty hath deceived thee, and lust hath perverted thy heart:
Osee 4:11 Fornication, and wine, and drunkenness take away the understanding.
It prevents a return to the Lord.
Osee 5:4 They will not set their thoughts to return to their God: for the spirit of fornication is in the midst of them, and they have not known the Lord.
Lk 14:20 And another said: I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.
It rejects doctrinal nourishment.
Eccli 21:18 A man of sense will praise every wise word he shall hear, and will apply it to himself: the luxurious man hath heard it, and it shall displease him, and he will cast it behind his back.
It sins against the body.
I Cor 6:18 Fly fornication. Every sin that a man doth, is without the body; but he that committeth fornication, sinneth against his own body.
It steals from the Lord.
I Cor 6:13 Meat for the belly, and the belly for the meats; but God shall destroy both it and them: but the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
I Cor 6:15 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.
It steals prosperity.
Prov 29:3 A man that loveth wisdom, rejoiceth his father: but he that maintaineth harlots, shall squander away his substance.
Eccli 9:6 Give not thy soul to harlots in any point: lest thou destroy thyself and thy inheritance.
Lk 15:13 And not many days after, the younger son, gathering all together, went abroad into a far country: and there wasted his substance, living riotously.
It strives for the forbidden.
II Ki 13:12 She answered him: Do not so, my brother, do not force me: for no such thing must be done in Israel. Do not thou this folly.