Bible verses about "covetousness" | Sawyer

⁹ For this, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not kill, You shall not steal, You shall not desire inordinately, and if there is any other commandment, it is summarily comprehended in this word; You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

¹⁵ Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If any one loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him; ¹⁶ for all that is in the world, the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. ¹⁷ And the world passes away, and its desires; but he that does the will of God continues for ever.

¹⁰ For the love of money is a root of all evils, which some having desired have been misled from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

² You desire and have not; you kill, and envy, and cannot obtain; you fight and carry on war. You have not, because you do not ask;

¹⁵ And he said to them, See, and beware of all covetousness; for one's life depends not on the abundance of his property. ¹⁶ And he told them a parable, saying, The farm of a certain rich man produced abundantly; ¹⁷ and he reasoned in himself, saying, What shall I do, for I have no place where I shall bring together my fruits? ¹⁸ And he said, I will do this; I will take down my storehouses and build greater; and there will I bring together all my produce and my goods; ¹⁹ and I will say to my soul, Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years rest, eat, drink, and enjoy yourself. ²⁰ But God said to him, Foolish man, this night they shall require your soul from you; and who then will have the goods which you have provided? ²¹ So is every one that lays up treasures for himself and is not rich in God.

¹⁵ And he said to them, See, and beware of all covetousness; for one's life depends not on the abundance of his property.

⁵ Let your life be without avarice, and be contented with what you have; for he said, I will never leave you, I will never forsake you;

^{5 (2:2)} Put to death, therefore, your members which are on the earth, fornication, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness which is idolatry,

⁵ For you know this, that no fornicator, or impure, or covetous person, who is an idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.