Bible Verses about 'Covetousness'

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• 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 5:3singreedholiness
• Dispose my heart to follow your statutes
  and to flee selfish gain.
  Psalm 119:36lawgreedheart
• 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 12:15moneygreedmaterialism
• 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
• Do not succumb to the love of money, but be content with what you have, for God has said, “I will never forsake you or abandon you.”
  Hebrews 13:5trustmoneymaterialism
• Then he went on, “It is what comes out of a person that defiles. For from within, from the human heart, come evil thoughts, unchastity, theft, murder, adultery, avarice, malice, deceit, indecency, envy, slander, arrogance, and folly. All these evils come from within, and they defile a person.”
  Mark 7:20-23sinpurificationtemptation
• What then should we say? That the Law is sinful? Absolutely not! Yet if it had not been for the Law, I would not have known what sin was. I would not have known what covet is if the Law had not said, “You shall not covet.”
  Romans 7:7sinlawdesires
• 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 5:9moneygreedmaterialism