Bible verses about "greed" | Diaglott

James 4:3

3 you ask, and not you receive, because wickedly you ask, so that in the pleasure of you you may waste.

James 5:1-6

1 Come now the rich ones, weep you crying aloud over the miseries of you those coming. 2 The wealth of you has decayed, and the garments of you moth-eaten have become; 3 the gold of you and the silver have become rusty, and the rust of them for a witness to you will be, and will eat the bodies of you as fire; you laid up treasure in last days. 4 Lo, the reward of the laborers of those having reaped the fields of you, that having been withheld by you, cries out; and the loud cries of the reapers into the ears of Lord of armies have entered. 5 You lived luxuriously on the earth, and were wanton; you nourished the hearts of you as in a day of slaughter. 6 You condemned, you murdered the just ones; not he opposes you.

Matthew 6:24

24 No one is able two lords to serve; either for the one he will hate, and the other he will love; or one he will cling to, and the other he will slight. Not you are able God to serve and mammon.

1 Corinthians 6:9-11

9 Or not know you, that unjust ones of God a kingdom not shall inherit? Not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminates, nor Sodomites, 10 nor thieves, nor covetous persons, nor drunkards, nor revilers, not extortioners, a kingdom of God not shall inherit. 11 And these things some you were; but you washed yourselves, but you were separated, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, an in the spirit of the God of us.

1 John 2:16

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

Luke 12:15

15 He said and to them: See you and beware you of the covetousness; because not in the to abound any one the life of him is out of the possessions of him.

Hebrews 13:5

5 Not a love of money the turn of mind; being satisfied with the things being present; he for has said: Not not thee may I leave, not even thee may I forsake;

1 Timothy 6:9

9 Those but wishing to be rich, fall into a temptation and a snare, and desires many foolish and hurtful, which sink deep the men into destruction and ruin. 10 A root for of all of the evils is the love of money; which some longing after wandered from the faith, and themselves pierced around with sorrows many.

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