Bible Verses about Greed

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• One who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor one who loves abundance with its income. This too is futility.
  Ecclesiastes 5:10moneymaterialism
• But those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap, and many foolish and harmful desires which plunge people into ruin and destruction.
  1 Timothy 6:9moneymaterialism
• But He said to them, “Beware, and be on your guard against every form of greed; for not even when one is affluent does his life consist of his possessions.”
  Luke 12:15moneymaterialismcontentment
• For the love of money is a root of all sorts of evil, and some by longing for it have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.
  1 Timothy 6:10moneyevildesires
• For what does it benefit a person to gain the whole world, and forfeit his soul?
  Mark 8:36materialismlifeworld
• Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in or steal.
  Matthew 6:19-20materialismheaven
• All day long he is craving,
  While the righteous gives and does not hold back.
  Proverbs 21:26givingmaterialismdesires
• Wealth obtained from nothing dwindles,
  But one who gathers by labor increases it.
  Proverbs 13:11moneyworkdebt
• As he came naked from his mother’s womb, so he will return as he came. He will take nothing from the fruit of his labor that he can carry in his hand.
  Ecclesiastes 5:15materialismheaven
• Do not weary yourself to gain wealth;
  Stop dwelling on it.
  Proverbs 23:4moneyplanning
• No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.
  Matthew 6:24servingmoneydebt
• Incline my heart to Your testimonies,
  And not to dishonest gain.
  Psalm 119:36lawheartselfishness
• Therefore, treat the parts of your earthly body as dead to sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which amounts to idolatry.
  Colossians 3:5sindesiresmaterialism
• Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor those habitually drunk, nor verbal abusers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.
  1 Corinthians 6:9-10sinsalvationkingdom
• You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male slave, or his female slave, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.
  Exodus 20:17materialismlawneighbor
• But sexual immorality or any impurity or greed must not even be mentioned among you, as is proper among saints.
  Ephesians 5:3sinholinesssexuality
• For because of this you also pay taxes, for rulers are servants of God, devoting themselves to this very thing.
  Romans 13:6honestymoney