17 And nothing at all should stick to your hand of the thing made sacred by ban,*+ in order that Jehovah may turn from his burning anger+ and may indeed give you mercy and he may certainly show you mercy+ and multiply you, just as he has sworn to your forefathers.+

9 But Saul and the people had compassion upon Aʹgag and upon the best of the flock and the herd+ and the fat ones* and upon the rams and upon all that was good, and they did not wish to devote them to destruction.+ As for all the goods that were despicable and rejected, these they devoted to destruction.

20 A man of faithful acts* will get many blessings,+ but he that is hastening to gain riches will not remain innocent.+

5 For YOU know this, recognizing it for yourselves, that no fornicator+ or unclean person or greedy person+—which means being an idolater—has any inheritance in the kingdom of the Christ and of God.*+