Subject: A Sin Too Deadly to Ignore

Scripture Reading: Genesis 3: 1 - 20

Memory Verse: 1 Timothy 6: 10

 

1. What is forbidden in the tenth commandment? Exodus 20: 17

 

2. Where does covetousness begin and how early in man’s history did it manifest itself? Mark 7:20 - 22, Genesis 3: 6, Isaiah 14: 13 - 14, Ezekiel 28: 15

 

3. What is said to come upon the covetous person and what will be their end? Ephesians 5: 4 - 7, Romans 1: 29 & 32

 

4. What else befalls the covetous? Habakkuk 2: 9 - 11

 

5. With what category of ugly sins is covetousness associated? Ephesians 5: 3, Genesis 4: 3 - 8, Joshua 7: 20 - 21

 

6. How does the Apostle Paul warn the covetous brother/sister? 2 Corinthians 6: 14

 

7. What is the advice to believers who continue to embrace covetousness? 1 Corinthians 5: 9 - 10

 

Note: Covetousness is a sin that gives birth to all other sins and crimes committed against God and man. The person who will not submit to God is covetous because his ambition is always to get and keep on getting. The wicked hopes to achieve security, happiness and ease, but the fruit of his action is misery and death.