Bible Verses about Greed

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• Those who love money will never have enough. How meaningless to think that wealth brings true happiness!
  Ecclesiastes 5:10moneymaterialism
• But people who long to be rich fall into temptation and are trapped by many foolish and harmful desires that plunge them into ruin and destruction.
  1 Timothy 6:9moneymaterialism
• Then he said, “Beware! Guard against every kind of greed. Life is not measured by how much you own.”
  Luke 12:15moneymaterialismcontentment
• For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. And some people, craving money, have wandered from the true faith and pierced themselves with many sorrows.
  1 Timothy 6:10moneyevildesires
• And what do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose your own soul?
  Mark 8:36materialismlifeworld
• Don’t store up treasures here on earth, where moths eat them and rust destroys them, and where thieves break in and steal. Store your treasures in heaven, where moths and rust cannot destroy, and thieves do not break in and steal.
  Matthew 6:19-20materialismheaven
• Some people are always greedy for more,
  but the godly love to give!
  Proverbs 21:26givingmaterialismdesires
• Wealth from get-rich-quick schemes quickly disappears;
  wealth from hard work grows over time.
  Proverbs 13:11moneyworkdebt
• We all come to the end of our lives as naked and empty-handed as on the day we were born. We can’t take our riches with us.
  Ecclesiastes 5:15materialismheaven
• Don’t wear yourself out trying to get rich.
  Be wise enough to know when to quit.
  Proverbs 23:4moneyplanning
• No one can serve two masters. For you will hate one and love the other; you will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and be enslaved to money.
  Matthew 6:24servingmoneydebt
• Give me an eagerness for your laws
  rather than a love for money!
  Psalm 119:36lawheartselfishness
• So put to death the sinful, earthly things lurking within you. Have nothing to do with sexual immorality, impurity, lust, and evil desires. Don’t be greedy, for a greedy person is an idolater, worshiping the things of this world.
  Colossians 3:5sindesiresmaterialism
• Don’t you realize that those who do wrong will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t fool yourselves. Those who indulge in sexual sin, or who worship idols, or commit adultery, or are male prostitutes, or practice homosexuality, or are thieves, or greedy people, or drunkards, or are abusive, or cheat people—none of these will inherit the Kingdom of God.
  1 Corinthians 6:9-10sinsalvationkingdom
• You must not covet your neighbor’s house. You must not covet your neighbor’s wife, male or female servant, ox or donkey, or anything else that belongs to your neighbor.
  Exodus 20:17materialismlawneighbor
• Let there be no sexual immorality, impurity, or greed among you. Such sins have no place among God’s people.
  Ephesians 5:3sinholinesssexuality
• Pay your taxes, too, for these same reasons. For government workers need to be paid. They are serving God in what they do.
  Romans 13:6honestymoney