Topic : Greed

Where there are great riches, there are also many to eat them. And what doth it profit the owner, but that he seeth the riches with his eyes?

Ecclesiastes 5:10

For they that will become rich fall into temptation and into the snare of the devil and into many unprofitable and hurtful desires, which drown men into destruction and perdition.

1 Timothy 6:9

And he said to them: Take heed and beware of all covetousness: for a man’s life doth not consist in the abundance of things which he possesseth.

Luke 12:15

For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his soul?

Mark 8:36

Lay not up to yourselves treasures on earth: where the rust, and moth consume, and where thieves break through, and steal.
But lay up to yourselves treasures in heaven: where neither the rust nor moth doth consume, and where thieves do not break through, nor steal.

Matthew 6:19-20

Substance got in haste shall be diminished: but that which by little and little is gathered with the hand, shall increase.

Proverbs 13:11

He longeth and desireth all the day: but he that is just, will give, and will not cease.

Proverbs 21:26

Labour not to be rich: but set bounds to thy prudence.

Proverbs 23:4

For the desire of money is the root of all evils; which some coveting have erred from the faith and have entangled themselves in many sorrows.

1 Timothy 6:10

A most deplorable evil: as he came, so shall he return. What then doth it profit him that he hath laboured for the wind?

Ecclesiastes 5:15

No man can serve two masters. For either he will hate the one, and love the other: or he will sustain the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.

Matthew 6:24

But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not so much as be named among you, as becometh saints:

Ephesians 5:3


Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, lust, evil concupiscence and covetousness, which is the service of idols.

Colossians 3:5

For therefore also you pay tribute. For they are the ministers of God, serving unto this purpose.

Romans 13:6


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