Bible verses about "greed" | Rotherham

¹⁰ He that loveth silver, shall not be satisfied with silver nor, he that loveth abundance, with revenue,––even this, was vanity.

²¹ An inheritance hastily gotten at the beginning, the latter end thereof, shall not bring blessing.

³ Ye ask and receive not, because that, basely, ye ask, in order that, in your pleasures, ye may spend [it].

¹ Come now! ye wealthy! Weep ye, howling, for your hardships which are coming upon you: ² Your wealth, hath rotted, and, your garments, have become, moth–eaten,–– ³ Your gold and silver, have rusted away, and, their rust, shall be, witness against you, and shall eat your flesh, as fire! Ye have laid up treasure in days of extremity:–– ⁴ Lo, the wage of the workers who have out down your fields––that which hath been kept back, by you, is crying out; and, the outcries of them who reaped, into the ears of the Lord of hosts, have entered: ⁵ Ye have luxuriated upon the land, and run riot, ye have pampered your hearts in a day of slaughter; ⁶ Ye sentenced––ye murdered the Righteous one! Is he not arraying himself against you?

²⁷ He, troubleth his own house, who graspeth with greed, but, he that hateth gifts, shall live.

²⁴ There is who scattereth, and increaseth yet more, and who withholdeth of what is due, only to come to want.

²⁴ No one, unto two masters, can be in service; for either, the one, he will hate, and, the other, love, or, one, he will hold to, and, the other, despise: Ye cannot be in service, unto God, and, unto Riches.

⁹ Or know ye not that, wrong–doers, shall not inherit, God’s kingdom? Be not deceiving yourselves:––neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites, ¹⁰ Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners––shall inherit, God’s kingdom. ¹¹ And, these things, were some of you; but ye bathed them away,––but ye were sanctified, but ye were justified, in the name of [our] Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God.

¹⁶ Because, all that is in the world––the coveting of the flesh, the coveting of the eyes, and the vain grandeur of life––is not of the Father, but is, of the world;

¹⁵ And he said unto them––Mind and be guarding yourselves from all covetousness; for not, in one’s abundance, doth his life spring out of his possessions.

²⁵ The ambitious in soul, stirreth up strife, but, he that trusteth in Yahweh, shall be enriched.

⁵ Without fondness for money, be your way of life,––being content with the present things,––for, he, hath said: In nowise, thee, will I leave, no indeed! in nowise, thee, will I forsake:

⁹ But, they who are determined to be rich, fall into temptation, and a snare, and many foolish and hurtful covetings, the which, sink men into ruin and destruction,–– ¹⁰ For, a root of all the vices, is the love of money, which, some, being eager for, have been seduced from the faith, and have pierced, themselves, about with many pangs.