Bible verses about "greediness" | LITV

Proverbs 15:27

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

Luke 12:15

15 And He said to them, Beware, and keep back from covetousness; for one's life is not in the abundance of the things which are his.

Colossians 3:5

5 Then put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication; uncleanness; passion; evil lust; and covetousness, which is idolatry;

Ephesians 5:5

5 For be knowing this, that every fornicator, or unclean one, or covetous one, who is an idolater, has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

Hebrews 13:5

5 Set your way of life without money-loving, being satisfied with present things; for He has said, "Not at all will I leave you, not at all will I forsake you," never! Deut. 31:6

Ephesians 4:17-24

17 Therefore, I say this, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk even as also the rest of the nations walk, in the vanity of their mind, 18 having been darkened in the understanding, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance which is in them because of the hardness of their heart, 19 who, having cast off all feeling, gave themselves up to lust, for the working of all uncleanness with greediness. 20 But you have not so learned Christ, 21 if indeed you heard Him and were taught in Him, as the truth is in Jesus. 22 for you have put off the old man, as regards the former behavior, having been corrupted according to the deceitful lusts, 23 and to be renewed in the spirit of your mind, 24 and to put on the new man, which according to God was created in righteousness and true holiness.

Ephesians 5:3

3 But let not fornication, and all uncleanness, or greediness, be named among you, as is fitting for saints;

1 Timothy 6:10

10 For the love of money is a root of all evils, by means of which some having lusted after it were seduced from the faith, and they themselves pierced through by many pains.

1 John 2:16

16 because all that which is in the world: the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

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