Wanting More

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.”

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

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.”

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

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

Don’t weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint. — read the full passage →

Remove far from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me with the food that is needful for me; — read the full passage →

Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; and a man’s eyes are never satisfied.

Soldiers also asked him, saying, “What about us? What must we do?” He said to them, “Extort from no one by violence, neither accuse anyone wrongfully. Be content with your wages.”

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

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 →

You lust, and don’t have. You kill, covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask. — 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 →

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

“Two things I have asked of you; don’t deny me before I die: — read the full passage →

I know how to be humbled, and I know also how to abound. In everything and in all things I have learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in need. — read the full passage →

Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

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

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

Better is a handful, with quietness, than two handfuls with labor and chasing after wind.

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

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

“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 →

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

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.

He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he who loves abundance, with increase: this also is vanity. — read the full passage →

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

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.

Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing? — read the full passage →

The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor. — read the full passage →

You lust, and don’t have. You kill, covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask.

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

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

I know how to be humbled, and I know also how to abound. In everything and in all things I have learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in need.

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 →

And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work.

He spoke a parable to them, saying, “The ground of a certain rich man produced abundantly. — read the full passage →

“Therefore don’t be anxious, saying, ‘What will we eat?’, ‘What will we drink?’ or, ‘With what will we be clothed?’ — read the full passage →

Now therefore this is what Yahweh of Armies says: Consider your ways. — read the full passage →

There is one who is alone, and he has neither son nor brother. There is no end to all of his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with wealth. “For whom then, do I labor, and deprive my soul of enjoyment?” This also is vanity. Yes, it is a miserable business.

Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man’s neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

In Gibeon Yahweh appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, “Ask what I shall give you.” — 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 →

Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.

Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue; — read the full passage →

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

When Jesus heard these things, he said to him, “You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have, and distribute it to the poor. You will have treasure in heaven. Come, follow me.” — read the full passage →

For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

He said to his disciples, “Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body, what you will wear. — read the full passage →

Jesus answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things, — read the full passage →

He said to all, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross,and follow me. — read the full passage →

For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life? — read the full passage →

and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing? — read the full passage →

Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing? — read the full passage →

“The leach has two daughters: ‘Give, give.’ “There are three things that are never satisfied; four that don’t say, ‘Enough:’ — read the full passage →

There are some who pretend to be rich, yet have nothing. There are some who pretend to be poor, yet have great wealth.

The liberal soul shall be made fat. He who waters shall be watered also himself.

There is one who scatters, and increases yet more. There is one who withholds more than is appropriate, but gains poverty. — read the full passage →

God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where there is no water.

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 →

“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.”

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →