L’s That Lead to Lack or Poverty
Laziness
Proverbs 14:23 - In all labour there is profit:
but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury. ( lack )
Proverbs 6:6 - Go to the ant, thou sluggard;
consider her ways, and be wise:
Proverbs 20:4 - The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.
2 Thessalonians 3:10 - For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.
Lust
James 1:14-15 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away
of his own lust, and enticed. 15 Then when lust hath conceived,
it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
Exodus 20:14 - Thou shalt not commit adultery.
Leviticus 18:22 - Thou shalt not lie with mankind,
as with womankind: it is abomination.
Romans 12:1 - I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
Romans 1:26 - For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections:
or even their women did change the natural use
into that which is against nature:
Romans 1:27 - And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use
of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another;
men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving
in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
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Proverbs 23:21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
Ephesians 5:18 - And be not drunk with wine, wherein is debauchery; but be filled with the Spirit;
Proverbs 20:1 - Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging:
and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
1 Corinthians 5:11 - But now I have written unto you, not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator,
or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard,
or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
Lottery ---- Gambling
Proverbs 13:11 Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished:
but he that gathers by labor shall increase.
1 Timothy 6:9 - But they that will be rich fall into temptation
and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts,
which drown men in destruction and perdition.
Proverbs 28:22 - He that hasteth to be rich hath an evil eye,
and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him.
Luke 16:13 - No servant can serve two masters: for either
he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one,
and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
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Proverbs 25:28 - He that hath no rule over his own spirit
is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.
Titus 2:12 - Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts,
we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
1 Corinthians 9:27 - But I keep under my body,
and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means,
when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
Romans 13:14 - But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ,
and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
1 Corinthians 4:2 Moreover it is required in stewards,
that a man be found faithful.
Larceny - (not arson) the wrongful taking of the personal goods, robbery
Malachi 3:8-9 Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.
Lying
Colossians 3:9 Lie not one to another, seeing that you have
put off the old man with his deeds;
Proverbs 13:5 A righteous man hates lying: but a wicked man
is loathsome, and comes to shame.
Leviticus 19:11 You shall not steal, neither deal falsely,
neither lie one to another.
Psalms 119:163 I hate and abhor lying: but your law do I love.
Proverbs 12:22 Lying lips are abomination to the LORD:
but they that deal truly are his delight.
Laundromats
Luke 12:42 And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful
and wise steward, whom his lord shall make ruler over his household,
to give them their portion of meat in due season?
Luke 16:10 He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also
in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.
Matthew 25:21 His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good
and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.
Matthew 25:30 And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
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Romans 13:8 - Owe no man any thing, but to love one another:
for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
Proverbs 22:7 - The rich ruleth over the poor,
and the borrower is servant to the lender.
Proverbs 22:26 - Be not thou one of them that strike hands,
or of them that are sureties for debts.
Deuteronomy 28:12 - The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season,
and to bless all the work of thine hand:
and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.
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Lasciviousness ------ Loose Living
Galatians 5:19-21 - Now the works of the flesh are manifest,
which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Romans 13:13 - Let us walk honestly, as in the day;
not in rioting ( anger ) and drunkenness, not in chambering ( in the bed )
and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
1 Peter 4:3 - For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, winebibling, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
Mark 7:20-23 And he said, That which cometh out of the man,
that defileth the man. 21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness,
an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
23 All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.
Lawlessness
Romans 1:29-32 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, 30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: 32 Who knowing the judgment of God,
that they which commit such things are worthy of death,
not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
2 Timothy 3:1-5 This know also, that in the last days perilous times
shall come. 2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, 4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; 5 Having a form
of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
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