The Bible calls covetousness a form of idolatry. Covetousness is wanting something with an
intense and wrong desire. You are to mortify and destroy covetousness:
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication,
uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness,
which is idolatry. (Colossians 3:5)You may have been an idolater in times past, but believers are no longer to continue with this
practice:
That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of
men, but to the will of God.For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the
Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings,
banquetings, and abominable idolatries... (I Peter 4:2-3)For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you,
and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God.
(I Thessalonians 1:9)
WITCHCRAFT
Witchcraft is the practice of witches including white and black magic, sorcery, astrology,
voodoo, use of potions, spells, enchantments, and drugs. It includes all Satanic practices and
worship.
The meaning of witchcraft can be expanded to include any control and manipulation of others.
Even though you are not involved in Satanic witchcraft, you can be guilty of "witchcraft" as a sin
of the flesh if you try to manipulate, control, or pray against others.
Witchcraft is spiritual rebellion against God. God says the sin of rebellion is as bad as
witchcraft:
For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft... (I Samuel 15:23)HATRED
Hatred is the opposite of love. It is an emotion of intense dislike. It is evil feelings towards
others. The Bible says that hatred stirs up strife:
Hatred stirreth up strife; but love covereth all sins. (Proverbs 10:12)