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Bible Verses About Greed

Bible Verses About Greed
  • 1 Timothy 6:6-106 But godliness with contentment is great gain. 7 For we brought nothing into the world, and we certainly can’t carry anything out. 8 But having food and clothing, we will be content with that. 9 But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation, a snare, and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction. 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows. Related Topics: EvilHappinessLustMoneyStewardship
  • Luke 12:1515 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.” Related Topics: FinancesGamblingGenerosityLifeMoney
  • Ephesians 5:3-53 But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints; 4 nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate, but rather giving of thanks. 5 Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man (who is an idolater), has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God. Related Topics: DatingGamblingHeavenLife After DeathMoney
  • Proverbs 15:2727 He who is greedy for gain troubles his own house, but he who hates bribes will live. Related Topics: BriberyGamblingLove of MoneyMoneyWealth
  • James 5:1-61 Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you. 2 Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days. 4 Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies. 5 You have lived in luxury on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter. 6 You have condemned and you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn’t resist you. Related Topics: BusinessCheatingFinancesHarvestMoney
  • Ecclesiastes 5:10-1210 He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he who loves abundance, with increase. This also is vanity. 11 When goods increase, those who eat them are increased; and what advantage is there to its owner, except to feast on them with his eyes? 12 The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep. Related Topics: ContentmentFinancesRestSleepVanity
  • 1 Corinthians 6:9-119 Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, 10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortionists, will inherit God’s Kingdom. 11 Some of you were such, but you were washed. You were sanctified. You were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God. Related Topics: DrinkingGamblingLustRelationshipsSin
  • Proverbs 28:25-2825 One who is greedy stirs up strife; but one who trusts in Yahweh will prosper. 26 One who trusts in himself is a fool; but one who walks in wisdom is kept safe. 27 One who gives to the poor has no lack; but one who closes his eyes will have many curses. 28 When the wicked rise, men hide themselves; but when they perish, the righteous thrive. Related Topics: GivingHelping OthersMoneyPrideWisdom
  • Colossians 3:55 Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. Related Topics: DatingLove of Money
  • Matthew 6:2424 “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon. Related Topics: DebtHateHypocrisyServing OthersTemptation
  • 1 John 2:15-1715 Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him. 16 For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s. 17 The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever. Related Topics: GamblingLoveMoneyPrideTrust
  • Hebrews 13:55 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.” Related Topics: DebtFinancesGamblingGod's PromisesProtection
  • Proverbs 1:1919 So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain. It takes away the life of its owners.
  • Proverbs 23:3-53 Don’t be desirous of his dainties, since they are deceitful food. 4 Don’t weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint. 5 Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky. Related Topics: FinancesGamblingLove of MoneyMoneyWealth
  • 2 Peter 2:33 In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.
  • Proverbs 28:20-2220 A faithful man is rich with blessings; but one who is eager to be rich will not go unpunished. 21 To show partiality is not good, yet a man will do wrong for a piece of bread. 22 A stingy man hurries after riches, and doesn’t know that poverty waits for him. Related Topics: ContentmentFaithfulnessGamblingMoneyWealth
  • 1 Peter 5:1-31 Therefore I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and who will also share in the glory that will be revealed: 2 shepherd the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not under compulsion, but voluntarily; not for dishonest gain, but willingly; 3 not as lording it over those entrusted to you, but making yourselves examples to the flock. Related Topics: FinancesParentingServing OthersWealth
  • Matthew 6:19-2019 “Don’t lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal; 20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, and where thieves don’t break through and steal; Related Topics: Life After Death
  • Psalm 10:33 For the wicked boasts of his heart’s cravings. He blesses the greedy and condemns Yahweh.
  • 1 Corinthians 5:1111 But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortionist. Don’t even eat with such a person. Related Topics: AddictionAlcoholDatingDrinkingDrugs
  • 1 Timothy 6:16-1916 He alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen nor can see, to whom be honor and eternal power. Amen. 17 Charge those who are rich in this present age that they not be arrogant, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy; 18 that they do good, that they be rich in good works, that they be ready to distribute, willing to share; 19 laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold of eternal life. Related Topics: GivingHopeMoneyTithingTrusting God
  • Habakkuk 2:5-65 Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous: an arrogant man who doesn’t stay at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol; he is like death and can’t be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations and heaps to himself all peoples. 6 Won’t all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, ‘Woe to him who increases that which is not his, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?’
  • 1 Timothy 3:2-32 The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching; 3 not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous; Related Topics: AlcoholDrunkennessEducationLove of MoneyModesty
  • 1 Thessalonians 2:55 For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),
  • Jeremiah 6:1313 “For from their least even to their greatest, everyone is given to covetousness. From the prophet even to the priest, everyone deals falsely. Related Topics: False Prophets
  • Mark 7:20-2320 He said, “That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man. 21 For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts, 22 covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness. 23 All these evil things come from within and defile the man.” Related Topics: AdulteryLustPrideSinThe Heart
  • Psalm 62:1010 Don’t trust in oppression. Don’t become vain in robbery. If riches increase, don’t set your heart on them. Related Topics: Love of MoneyStealingWealth
  • Isaiah 56:10-1110 His watchmen are blind. They are all without knowledge. They are all mute dogs. They can’t bark— dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber. 11 Yes, the dogs are greedy. They can never have enough. They are shepherds who can’t understand. They have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter. Related Topics: Selfishness
  • Proverbs 21:25-2625 The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor. 26 There are those who covet greedily all day long; but the righteous give and don’t withhold. Related Topics: GamblingGiving to OthersHard WorkLazinessWorking Hard
  • Jeremiah 8:1010 Therefore I will give their wives to others and their fields to those who will possess them. For everyone from the least even to the greatest is given to covetousness; from the prophet even to the priest everyone deals falsely.
  • Proverbs 11:2828 He who trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous shall flourish as the green leaf. Related Topics: MoneyTrustWealth
  • Mark 8:3636 For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his life? Related Topics: HellLove of MoneyMoneyWealth
  • Proverbs 13:11-1211 Wealth gained dishonestly dwindles away, but he who gathers by hand makes it grow. 12 Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when longing is fulfilled, it is a tree of life. Related Topics: FinancesGamblingHopeMoneyWorking Hard
  • Proverbs 20:2121 An inheritance quickly gained at the beginning won’t be blessed in the end. Related Topics: Gambling
  • Luke 11:3939 The Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness.
  • 1 Timothy 3:88 Servants, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money, Related Topics: AlcoholHypocrisy
  • Proverbs 22:11 A good name is more desirable than great riches, and loving favor is better than silver and gold. Related Topics: BusinessCharacterWealth
  • Matthew 23:2525 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and unrighteousness. Related Topics: Selfishness
  • Philippians 4:11-1311 Not that I speak because of lack, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content in it. 12 I know how to be humbled, and I also know how to abound. In any and all circumstances I have learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in need. 13 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. Related Topics: FaithLeadershipMotivationStrengthStress
  • Ephesians 4:18-1918 being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts. 19 They, having become callous, gave themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
  • Ezekiel 33:3131 They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don’t do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.
  • Proverbs 29:44 The king by justice makes the land stable, but he who takes bribes tears it down. Related Topics: BriberyGovernmentLeadership
  • Exodus 20:1717 “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.” Related Topics: ContentmentJealousyLazinessLustWives
  • John 12:4-64 Then Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, one of his disciples, who would betray him, said, 5 “Why wasn’t this ointment sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?” 6 Now he said this, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and having the money box, used to steal what was put into it.
  • Psalm 119:35-3735 Direct me in the path of your commandments, for I delight in them. 36 Turn my heart toward your statutes, not toward selfish gain. 37 Turn my eyes away from looking at worthless things. Revive me in your ways. Related Topics: PornographySelfishnessSelflessnessVanity
  • Titus 1:77 For the overseer must be blameless, as God’s steward, not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain; Related Topics: AngerGiving to Others
  • Luke 12:1-31 Meanwhile, when a multitude of many thousands had gathered together, so much so that they trampled on each other, he began to tell his disciples first of all, “Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. 2 But there is nothing covered up that will not be revealed, nor hidden that will not be known. 3 Therefore whatever you have said in the darkness will be heard in the light. What you have spoken in the ear in the inner rooms will be proclaimed on the housetops. Related Topics: Hypocrisy
  • Proverbs 28:88 He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor. Related Topics: DebtWealth
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