Greed

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.

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.”

One who is greedy stirs up strife; but one who trusts in Yahweh will prosper.

But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.

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.”

He who is greedy for gain troubles his own house, but he who hates bribes will live.

“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.

He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he who loves abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.

There is one who scatters, and increases yet more. There is one who withholds more than is appropriate, but gains poverty.

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.

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, — read the full passage →

Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you. — read the full passage →

An inheritance quickly gained at the beginning, won’t be blessed in the end.

You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.

Wealth gained dishonestly dwindles away, but he who gathers by hand makes it grow.

For the wicked boasts of his heart’s cravings. He blesses the greedy, and condemns Yahweh.

For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?

“For from their least even to their greatest, everyone is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even to the priest, everyone deals falsely.

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

A stingy man hurries after riches, and doesn’t know that poverty waits for him.

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.

There are those who covet greedily all day long; but the righteous give and don’t withhold.

But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;

For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),

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.

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.

Don’t weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.

“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.

So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain. It takes away the life of its owners.

having eyes full of adultery, and who can’t cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;

Turn my heart toward your statutes, not toward selfish gain.

He who trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous shall flourish as the green leaf.

He who has a generous eye will be blessed; for he shares his food with the poor.

A good name is more desirable than great riches, and loving favor is better than silver and gold.

being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,

Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart; not grudgingly, or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver.

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;

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

“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.”

Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be haughty, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy; — read the full passage →

Yes, the dogs are greedy, they can never have enough; and these are shepherds who can’t understand: they have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.

He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.

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.

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them, but the unfaithful will be trapped by evil desires.

The wicked borrow, and don’t pay back, but the righteous give generously.

A faithful man is rich with blessings; but one who is eager to be rich will not go unpunished.

Don’t trust in oppression. Don’t become vain in robbery. If riches increase, don’t set your heart on them.

But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction. — read the full passage →

As he came out of his mother’s womb, naked shall he go again as he came, and shall take nothing for his labor, which he may carry away in his hand.

Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”

Don’t love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him. — read the full passage →

Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members? — read the full passage →

For the iniquity of his covetousness was I angry, and struck him; I hid myself and was angry; and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.

Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not under compulsion, but voluntarily, not for dishonest gain, but willingly; — read the full passage →

The plans of the diligent surely lead to profit; and everyone who is hasty surely rushes to poverty.

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.

Therefore will I give their wives to others, and their fields to those who shall possess them: for everyone from the least even to the greatest is given to covetousness; from the prophet even to the priest every one deals falsely.

See therefore, I have stretched out my hand over you, and have diminished your portion, and delivered you to the will of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your lewd way.

Woe to them! For they went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in Korah’s rebellion.

In you have they taken bribes to shed blood; you have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me, says the Lord Yahweh.

Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place. — read the full passage →

Not that I speak in respect to lack, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content in it. — read the full passage →

But godliness with contentment is great gain. — read the full passage →

For this reason you also pay taxes, for they are servants of God’s service, attending continually on this very thing.

The king by justice makes the land stable, but he who takes bribes tears it down.

The proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel: — read the full passage →

The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.

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. — read the full passage →

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; — read the full passage →

The rich rule over the poor. The borrower is servant to the lender.

He said, “That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man. — read the full passage →

Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty. — read the full passage →

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, — read the full passage →

Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, — read the full passage →

“Don’t lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal; — read the full passage →

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

For among my people are found wicked men. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men. — read the full passage →

When I saw among the plunder a beautiful Babylonian robe, two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, then I coveted them and took them. Behold, they are hidden in the ground in the middle of my tent, with the silver under it.”

nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortionists, will inherit the Kingdom of God.

Yet the children of your people say, The way of the Lord is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal. — read the full passage →

Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not under compulsion, but voluntarily, not for dishonest gain, but willingly;

But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction. — read the full passage →

One who is greedy stirs up strife; but one who trusts in Yahweh will prosper. — read the full passage →

For no one can lay any other foundation than that which has been laid, which is Jesus Christ.

I also tell you that you are Peter,and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hadeswill not prevail against it. — read the full passage →

“For from their least even to their greatest, everyone is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even to the priest, everyone deals falsely. — read the full passage →

The poor person is shunned even by his own neighbor, but the rich person has many friends. — read the full passage →

I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies. — read the full passage →

I tell you, make for yourselves friends by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when you fail, they may receive you into the eternal tents. — read the full passage →

After these things, Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard, which was in Jezreel, hard by the palace of Ahab king of Samaria. — read the full passage →

by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust. — read the full passage →

The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching; — read the full passage →

Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, — read the full passage →

After these things, I saw another angel coming down out of the sky, having great authority. The earth was illuminated with his glory. — read the full passage →

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy became our father again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, — read the full passage →

What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful. — read the full passage →

But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, but you bypass justice and the love of God. You ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone. — read the full passage →