Bible Verses about Greed

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• One who is covetous will never be satisfied with money,
  nor will the lover of wealth be content with gain.
  This too is vanity.
  Ecclesiastes 5:9moneymaterialism
• However, those who want riches fall into temptations and are trapped into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge them into ruin and destruction.
  1 Timothy 6:9moneymaterialism
• After this, he said to the crowd, “Take care to be on your guard against all kinds of greed. Life does not depend upon an abundance of one’s possessions.”
  Luke 12:15moneymaterialismcontentment
• The love of money is the root of all evils, and in their desire for it some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many serious wounds.
  1 Timothy 6:10moneyevildesires
• What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his very life?
  Mark 8:36materialismlifeworld
• Do not store up treasures for yourselves on earth, where they will be destroyed by moth and rust and where thieves break in and steal. Rather, store up treasure for yourselves in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves cannot break in and steal.
  Matthew 6:19-20materialismheaven
• All day long the godless man continues to covet,
  whereas the righteous man gives unsparingly.
  Proverbs 21:26givingmaterialismdesires
• Wealth hastily acquired will dwindle away,
  but when amassed little by little, it will increase.
  Proverbs 13:11moneyworkdebt
• Just as he came forth naked from his mother’s womb,
  so shall he depart, naked as he came,
  with nothing remaining from his labor
  that he can carry away in his hands.
  Ecclesiastes 5:14materialismheaven
• Do not wear yourself out in the pursuit of wealth,
  and cease even to think about it.
  Proverbs 23:4moneyplanning
• No one can serve two masters. For you will either hate the one and love the other or be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.
  Matthew 6:24servingmoneydebt
• Dispose my heart to follow your statutes
  and to flee selfish gain.
  Psalm 119:36lawheartselfishness
• And so you should put to death everything in your nature that is earthly: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desires, and greed (which is idolatry).
  Colossians 3:5sindesiresmaterialism
• Are you not aware that wrongdoers will never inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! Fornicators, idolaters, adulterers, male prostitutes, sodomites, thieves, extortioners, drunkards, slanderers, swindlers—none of these 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, nor his male slave, nor his female slave, nor his oxen, nor his donkey, nor anything that belongs to your neighbor.
  Exodus 20:17materialismlawneighbor
• Indeed, fornication and impurity of any kind, as well as greed, should not even be mentioned among you. Such talk is not fitting for saints.
  Ephesians 5:3sinholinesssexuality
• That is why you also pay taxes, for the authorities are God’s servants, and they devote themselves to this service.
  Romans 13:6honestymoney