Bible verses about "possessions" | Haweis

¹⁵ Then said he to them, Beware, and be on your guard against covetousness; for a man's life doth not depend on the abundance of his possessions.

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

¹⁵ Love not the world, neither the things which are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

³⁵ In all things I have set you the example, that so labouring hard ye ought to help the infirm, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, because he himself said, "It is more blessed to give than to receive."

¹⁷ Charge the rich in this world not to be lifted up with pride, nor to trust on the stability of wealth, but on the living God, who giveth us richly all things for our enjoyment; ¹⁸ to do good, to be rich in generous actions, to take pleasure in liberality, ready to distribute; ¹⁹ laying up treasure for themselves a noble foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.

³³ Sell all your possessions, and give in charity; make yourselves purses that wax not old, a treasure never failing in the heavens, where no thief approaches, nor doth the moth destroy. ³⁴ For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

¹⁹ Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where the rust and canker spoil, and where thieves dig through and steal: ²⁰ but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither rust nor canker spoil, and where thieves do not dig through and steal; ²¹ for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.