Bible Verses about 'Covetousness'

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• But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints.
  Ephesians 5:3singreedholiness
• He said to them, “Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.”
  Luke 12:15moneygreedmaterialism
• Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
  Colossians 3:5sindesiresmaterialism
• Turn my heart toward your statutes,
  not toward selfish gain.
  Psalm 119:36lawgreedheart
• Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”
  Hebrews 13:5trustmoneymaterialism
• He said, “That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man. For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts, covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness. All these evil things come from within and defile the man.”
  Mark 7:20-23sinpurificationtemptation
• What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn’t have known sin except through the law. For I wouldn’t have known coveting unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”
  Romans 7:7sinlawdesires