Bible verses about "greed" | Living_Oracles

³ You ask, and do not receive, because you ask wickedly, that you may spend upon your lusts.

¹ Come, now, you rich men, weep, howl, on account of your miseries, which are coming upon you. ² Your riches are putrefied, and your garments are motheaten. ³ Your gold and silver are eaten with rust, and the rust of them will be a witness against you, and will eat your flesh as fire. You have heaped up treasure in the last days. ⁴ Hark! the hire of the laborers who have reaped your field, which is fraudulently kept back by you, cries; and the cries of the reapers have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts. ⁵ You have lived luxuriously on the earth, and been wanton; you have nourished your hearts as in a day of festivity. ⁶ You have condemned-you have killed the Just One-he did not resist you.

²⁴ A man can not serve two masters; for either he will hate one, and love the other; or at least he will attend to one, and neglect the other. You cannot serve God and Mammon.

⁹ Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor catamites, nor sodomites, ¹⁰ nor thieves, nor misers, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. ¹¹ And such were some of you; but you are washed, but you are sanctified, but you are justified, by the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

¹⁶ For all that 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.

¹⁵ And he said to them, Be upon your guard against covetousness; for in whatever affluence a man be, his life depends not on his possessions.

⁵ Let your behavior be without the love of money, being contented with the things you have; for himself has said, "I will never leave you, not will I at all utterly forsake you."

⁹ But they who will be rich, fall into temptation, and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which plunge men into destruction and perdition. ¹⁰ For the love of money is the root of all evil, which some, eagerly desiring, have wholly erred from the faith, and pierced themselves all around with many sorrows.