Bible verses about "hoarding" | BBE

³¹ Then do not be full of care, saying, What are we to have for food or drink? or, With what may we be clothed? ³² Because the Gentiles go in search of all these things: for your Father in heaven has knowledge that you have need of all these things: ³³ But let your first care be for his kingdom and his righteousness; and all these other things will be given to you in addition.

²⁶ For what profit has a man, if he gets all the world with the loss of his life? or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

¹⁹ And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have a great amount of goods in store, enough for a number of years; be at rest, take food and wine and be happy. ²⁰ But God said to him, You foolish one, tonight I will take your soul from you, and who then will be the owner of all the things which you have got together? ²¹ So that is what comes to the man who gets wealth for himself, and has not wealth in the eyes of God.

²⁷ Jesus, looking on them, said, With men it is impossible, but not with God: for all things are possible with God.

⁶ But true faith, with peace of mind, is of great profit: ⁷ For we came into the world with nothing, and we are not able to take anything out; ⁸ But if we have food and a roof over us, let that be enough. ⁹ But those who have a desire for wealth are falling into danger, and are taken as in a net by a number of foolish and damaging desires, through which men are overtaken by death and destruction. ¹⁰ For the love of money is a root of all evil: and some whose hearts were fixed on it have been turned away from the faith, and been wounded with unnumbered sorrows.

⁴ Be glad in the Lord at all times: again I say, Be glad. ⁵ Let your gentle behaviour be clear to all men. The Lord is near. ⁶ Have no cares; but in everything with prayer and praise put your requests before God. ⁷ And the peace of God, which is deeper than all knowledge, will keep your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.

¹⁵ Have no love for the world or for the things which are in the world. If any man has love for the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

²⁶ He who keeps back grain will be cursed by the people; but a blessing will be on the head of him who lets them have it for a price.

²⁷ Do not keep back good from those who have a right to it, when it is in the power of your hand to do it. ²⁸ Say not to your neighbour, Go, and come again, and tomorrow I will give; when you have it by you at the time.

²⁴ No man is able to be a servant to two masters: for he will have hate for the one and love for the other, or he will keep to one and have no respect for the other. You may not be servants of God and of wealth.

²¹ Jesus said to him, If you have a desire to be complete, go, get money for your property, and give it to the poor, and you will have wealth in heaven: and come after me. ²² But hearing these words the young man went away sorrowing: for he had much property.

¹⁶ And he said to them, in a story, The land of a certain man of great wealth was very fertile: ¹⁷ And he said to himself, What is to be done? for I have no place in which to put all my fruit. ¹⁸ And he said, This I will do: I will take down my store-houses and make greater ones, and there I will put all my grain and my goods. ¹⁹ And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have a great amount of goods in store, enough for a number of years; be at rest, take food and wine and be happy. ²⁰ But God said to him, You foolish one, tonight I will take your soul from you, and who then will be the owner of all the things which you have got together? ²¹ So that is what comes to the man who gets wealth for himself, and has not wealth in the eyes of God.

¹ Come now, you men of wealth, give yourselves to weeping and crying because of the bitter troubles which are coming to you. ² Your wealth is unclean and insects have made holes in your clothing. ³ Your gold and your silver are wasted and their waste will be a witness against you, burning into your flesh. You have put by your store in the last days.

⁸ If anyone has no care for his family and those in his house, he is false to the faith, and is worse than one who has no faith.

¹⁵ And he said to them, Take care to keep yourselves free from the desire for property; for a man's life is not made up of the number of things which he has. ¹⁶ And he said to them, in a story, The land of a certain man of great wealth was very fertile: ¹⁷ And he said to himself, What is to be done? for I have no place in which to put all my fruit. ¹⁸ And he said, This I will do: I will take down my store-houses and make greater ones, and there I will put all my grain and my goods. ¹⁹ And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have a great amount of goods in store, enough for a number of years; be at rest, take food and wine and be happy. ²⁰ But God said to him, You foolish one, tonight I will take your soul from you, and who then will be the owner of all the things which you have got together? ²¹ So that is what comes to the man who gets wealth for himself, and has not wealth in the eyes of God.

³⁴ For where your wealth is, there will your heart be.