Ill gotten gain causes nothing but spiritual death to those acquiring it and heartache to those whose lives are torn apart from their actions. Greed is at the center of every evil. Sounds similar to our housing foreclosures borne by the greed of our banking industry preying on the lack of understanding of the regular person.
The ethical teaching of the prophets regularly included oracles of judgment against greed, theft, and oppression, actions of the powerful in attacking the weak. To covet is not just to have a passing thought; it is a determination to seize what is not one’s own.
Micah 2:1-2
2 Woe to those who devise iniquity,
And work out evil on their beds!
At morning light they practice it,
Because it is in the power of their hand.
2 They covet fields and take them by violence,
Also houses, and seize them.
So they oppress a man and his house,
A man and his inheritance.
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