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:
51. That riches acquired by theft, fraud, calumny, and falsehood, will not endure.
52. Against the rich and mighty men of this world.
53. That it is difficult for a rich man to be saved.
54. That it is lawful to possess riches.
55. Against the hope of the wicked.
56. Against those who put their hope in the help of man.
57. That we must not trust in transitory things.
58. That we must always trust in the Lord.
59. Of spiritual riches.
60. Of the contempt of riches.
61. Of the commendation of poverty.
62. That the Church increases spiritually through poverty and adversity.
63. Of those who consciously trample upon the world.
64. Of the misery and labour of human life.
65. Against avarice and covetousness, and its effects.
Scripture:
That riches acquired by theft, fraud, calumny, and falsehood, will not endure.
They not only perish themselves, but also destroy their possessor.
| III Ki 16:3 | Behold, I will cut down the posterity of Baasa, and the posterity of his house, and I will make thy house as the house of Jeroboam the son of Nabat. |
| Job 4:8 | On the contrary I have seen those who work iniquity, and sow sorrows, and reap them, |
| Job 5:3 | I have seen a fool with a strong root, and I cursed his beauty immediately. |
| Job 8:22 | They that hate thee, shall be clothed with confusion: and the dwelling of the wicked shall not stand. |
| Job 18:19 | His seed shall not subsist, nor his offspring among his people, nor any remnants in his country. |
| Job 20:15 | The riches which he hath swallowed, he shall vomit up, and God shall draw them out of his belly. |
| Job 20:26-27 | All darkness is hid in his secret places: a fire that is not kindled shall devour him, he shall be afflicted when left in his tabernacle. |
| Job 21:16-18 | Yet because their good things are not in their hand, may the counsel of the wicked be far from me. |
| Job 22:16 | Who were taken away before their time, and a flood hath overthrown their foundation. |
| Job 22:20 | Is not their exaltation cut down, and hath not fire devoured the remnants of them? |
| Job 24:18 | He is light upon the face of the water: cursed be his portion on the earth, let him not walk by the way of the vineyards. |
| Job 24:24 | They are lifted up for a little while and shall not stand, and shall be brought down as all things, and shall be taken away, and as the tops of the ears of corn they shall be broken. |
| Job 27:14 | If his sons be multiplied, they shall be for the sword, and his grandsons shall not be filled with bread. |
| Job 27:16 | If he shall heap together silver as earth, and prepare raiment as clay, |
| Job 27:19 | The rich man when he shall sleep shall take away nothing with him: he shall open his eyes and find nothing. |
| Ps 108:11 | May the usurer search all his substance: and let strangers plunder his labours. |
| Eccles 5:12 | There is also another grievous evil, which I have seen under the sun: riches kept to the hurt of the owner. |
| Wis 3:8 | They shall judge nations, and rule over people, and their Lord shall reign for ever. |
| Wis 4:3 | But the multiplied brood of the wicked shall not thrive, and bastard slips shall not take deep root, nor any fast foundation. |
| Eccli 23:35 | Her children shall not take root, and her branches shall bring forth no fruit. |
| Eccli 40:13 | The riches of the unjust shall be dried up like a river, and shall pass away with a noise like a great thunder in rain. |
| Eccli 40:15 | The offspring of the ungodly shall not bring forth many branches, and make a noise as unclean roots upon the top of a rock. |
| Eccli 41:9 | The inheritance of the children of sinners shall perish, and with their posterity shall be a perpetual reproach. |
| Isa 5:8 | Woe to you that join house to house and lay field to field, even to the end of the place: shall you alone dwell in the midst of the earth? |
| Isa 5:24 | Therefore as the tongue of the fire devoureth the stubble, and the heat of the flame consumeth it: so shall their root be as ashes, and their bud shall go up as dust: for they have cast away the law of the Lord of hosts, and have blasphemed the word of the Holy One of Israel. |
| Jer 6:11 | Therefore am I full of the fury of the Lord, I am weary with holding in: pour it out upon the child abroad, and upon the council of the young men together: for man and woman shall be taken, the ancient and he that is full of days. |
| Bar 3:16 | Where are the princes of the nations, and they that rule over the beasts that are upon the earth? |
| Ezech 15:7 | And I will set my face against them: they shall go out from fire, and fire shall consume them: and you shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall have set my face against them. |
| Ezech 16:39 | And I will deliver thee into their hands, and they shall destroy thy brothel house, and throw down thy stews: and they shall strip thee of thy garments, and shall take away the vessels of thy beauty: and leave thee naked, and full of disgrace. |
| Ezech 21:31 | And I will pour out upon thee my indignation: in the fire of my rage will I blow upon thee, and will give thee into the hands of men that are brutish and contrive thy destruction. |
| Ezech 23:25 | And I will set my jealousy against thee, which they shall execute upon thee with fury: they shall cut off thy nose and thy ears: and what remains shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons, and thy daughters, and thy residue shall be devoured by fire. |
| Ezech 26:20 | And when I shall bring thee down with those that descend into the pit to the everlasting people, and shall set thee in the lowest parts of the earth, as places desolate of old, with them that are brought down into the pit, that thou be not inhabited: and when I shall give glory in the land of the living, |
| Ezech 33:25 | Therefore say to them: Thus saith the Lord God, You that eat with the blood and lift up your eyes to your uncleannesses, and that shed blood: shall you possess the land by inheritance? |
| Ezech 33:28 | And I will make the land a wilderness, and a desert, and the proud strength thereof shall fail, and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, because there is none to pass by them. |
| Ezech 34:10 | Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I myself come upon the shepherds, I will require my flock at their hand, and I will cause them to cease from feeding the flock any more, neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more: and I will deliver my flock from their mouth, and it shall no more be meat for them. |
| Ezech 34:22 | I will save my flock, and it shall be no more a spoil, and I will judge between cattle and cattle. |
| Osee 2:9 | Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in its season, and my wine in its season, and I will set at liberty my wool, and my flax, which covered her disgrace. |
| Osee 2:12 | And I will destroy her vines, and her fig trees, of which she said: These are my rewards, which my lovers have given me: and I will make her as a forest, and the beasts of the field shall devour her. |
| Amos 3:11 | Therefore thus saith the Lord God: The land shall be in tribulation, and shall be compassed about: and thy strength shall be taken away from thee, and thy houses shall be spoiled. |
| Amos 6:7 | Wherefore now they shall go captive at the head of them that go into captivity: and the faction of the luxurious ones shall be taken away. |
| Mich 1:15 | Yet will I bring an heir to thee that dwellest in Maresa: even to Odollam shall the glory of Israel come. |