Bible verses about "greediness" | ABU

¹⁵ And he said to them: Take heed, and beware of all covetousness; because a man's life consists not in the abundance of his possessions.

⁵ Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

⁵ For this ye know, being aware that no fornicator, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

⁵ Let your disposition be without covetousness, and be content with what ye have; for he has said: I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

¹⁷ This therefore I say, and testify in the Lord, that ye no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, ¹⁸ having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in then, because of the hardness of their heart; ¹⁹ who, as being past feeling, gave themselves up to wantonness, to work all uncleanness in greediness. ²⁰ But ye did not so learn Christ, ²¹ if indeed ye heard him, and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus; ²² that ye put off, as concerns your former deportment, the old man who is corrupted according to the lusts of deceit, ²³ and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, ²⁴ and put on the new man, who was created after God in the righteousness and holiness of the truth.

³ But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becomes saints,

¹⁰ For the love of money is a root of all evils; which some coveting after wandered away from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

¹⁶ Because all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the empty pomp of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.