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 the chains of sin.
For He is God. | |
| Lev 26:1 | I am the Lord your God: you shall not make to yourselves any idol or graven thing, neither shall you erect pillars, nor set up a remarkable stone in your land, to adore it: for I am the Lord your God. |
Common | |
| Job 18:8-9 | For he hath thrust his feet into a net, and walketh in its meshes. |
| Job 39:5 | Who hath sent out the wild ass free, and who hath loosed his bonds? |
| Ps 2:3 | Let us break their bonds asunder: and let us cast away their yoke from us. |
| Ps 9:16 | I will rejoice in thy salvation: the Gentiles have stuck fast in the destruction which they prepared. Their foot hath been taken in the very snare which they hid. |
| Ps 9:31 | In his net he will bring him down, he will crouch and fall, when he shall have power over the poor. |
| Ps 10:7 | He shall rain snares upon sinners: fire and brimstone and storms of winds shall be the portion of their cup. |
| Ps 24:15 | My eyes are ever towards the Lord: for he shall pluck my feet out of the snare. |
| Ps 56:7 | They prepared a snare for my feet; and they bowed down my soul. They dug a pit before my face, and they are fallen into it. |
| Ps 67:7 | God who maketh men of one manner to dwell in a house: Who bringeth out them that were bound in strength; in like manner them that provoke, that dwell in sepulchres. |
| Ps 87:5 | I am counted among them that go down to the pit: I am become as a man without help, |
| Ps 115:16 | O Lord, for I am thy servant: I am thy servant, and the son of thy handmaid. Thou hast broken my bonds: |
| Ps 118:61 | The cords of the wicked have encompassed me: but I have not forgotten thy law. |
| Ps 123:7 | Our soul hath been delivered as a sparrow out of the snare of the fowlers. The snare is broken, and we are delivered. |
| Ps 139:3 | Who have devised iniquities in their hearts: all the day long they designed battles. |
| Ps 139:6 | the proud have hidden a net for me. And they have stretched out cords for a snare: they have laid for me a stumbling-block by the wayside. |
| Ps 141:4 | When my spirit failed me, then thou knewest my paths. In this way wherein I walked, they have hidden a snare for me. |
| Prov 5:22 | His own iniquities catch the wicked, and he is fast bound with the ropes of his own sins. |
| Prov 7:21 | She entangled him with many words, and drew him away with the flattery of her lips. |
| Prov 29:5 | A man that speaketh to his friend with flattering and dissembling words, spreadeth a net for his feet. |
| 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 27:29 | He that diggeth a pit, shall fall into it: and he that setteth a stone for his neighbour, shall stumble upon it: and he that layeth a snare for another, shall perish in it. |
| Eccli 27:32 | They shall perish in a snare that are delighted with the fall of the just: and sorrow shall consume them before they die. |
| Isa 5:18 | Woe to you that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as the rope of a cart. |
| Isa 52:2 | Shake thyself from the dust, arise, sit up, O Jerusalem: loose the bonds from off thy neck, O captive daughter of Sion. |
| Isa 58:9 | Then shalt thou call, and the Lord shall hear: thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou wilt take away the chain out of the midst of thee, and cease to stretch out the finger, and to speak that which profiteth not. |
| Ezech 3:25 | And thou, O son of man, behold they shall put bands upon thee, and they shall bind thee with them: and thou shalt not go forth from the midst of them. |
| Mt 21:2 | Saying to them: Go ye into the village that is over against you, and immediately you shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her: loose them and bring them to me. |
| Jn 11:44 | And presently he that had been dead came forth, bound feet and hands with winding bands; and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus said to them: Loose him, and let him go. |