Bible Verses About Greed

For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.

He that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife: but he that putteth his trust in the LORD shall be made fat.

But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.

Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live.

No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.

There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.

An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.

Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.

Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.

For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.

But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

He that hasteth to be rich hath an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him.

And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.

For this ye know , that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;

He coveteth greedily all the day long: but the righteous giveth and spareth not.

For neither at any time used we flattering words , as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God is witness:

This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.

But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.

Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.