| Verse | Translation | Text |
| Col 3:5 | King James | Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: |
| Strong Concordance | Mortify [3499] therefore [3767] your [5216] members [3196] which [3588] are upon [1909] the earth [1093]; fornication [4202], uncleanness [167], inordinate affection [3806], evil [2556] concupiscence [1939], and [2532] covetousness [4124], which [3748] is [2076] idolatry [1495]: |
| Greek For 4124 | |
| Word | pleonexia |
| Pronunciation | pleh-on-ex-ee'-ah |
| Definition |
from 4123; avarice, i.e. (by implication) fraudulency, extortion: covetous(-ness) practices, greediness. |
| Root(s) | 4123 |
| Verse Occurrences | 10 |
| Verse | Other Content | Text |
| Mr 7:22 | C D T R | Thefts, covetousness [4124], wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness : |
| Lu 12:15 | C D T R K | And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness [4124]: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth. |
| Ro 1:29 | C D T R K | Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness [4124], maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, |
| 2Co 9:5 | C D T R K | Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your bounty, whereof ye had notice before, that the same might be ready, as a matter of bounty, and not as of covetousness [4124]. |
| Eph 4:19 | C D T R K | Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness [4124]. |
| Eph 5:3 | C D T R K | But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness [4124], let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints; |
| Col 3:5 | C D T R K | Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness [4124], which is idolatry : |
| 1Th 2:5 | C D T R K | For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness [4124]; God is witness : |
| 2Pe 2:3 | C D T R K | And through covetousness [4124] shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you : whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not. |
| 2Pe 2:14 | C D T R K | Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls : an heart they have exercised with covetous practices [4124]; cursed children : |