Luke 12:15

then he said to them, take care to be clear of all avarice: for the enjoyment of life does not depend upon the having large possessions.

1 Timothy 6:6-10

Religion indeed with contentment leads to great gain.

Hebrews 13:5

let your morals be free from avarice, being contented with what you have: for he hath said, "I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee."

Matthew 6:25-26

I therefore direct you, not to be sollicitous, with regard to life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor with regard to the body, what clothes ye shall wear: Is not life it self a greater gift than food; and the body a greater gift than rayment?

Mark 7:22

avarice, malice, fraud, impudence, envy, scandal, pride, vanity.

Luke 8:14

the ground over-run with thorns denotes such as have embraced the doctrine, but are so immerst in the business, enjoyments, and pleasures of life, as not to improve it to any real advantage.

Luke 16:14

The Pharisees too, who were noted for avarice, heard all this discourse, and treated him with derision.

Luke 21:34

set a guard upon yourselves, that ye be not stupified by surfeiting and drunkenness, or by the disquietudes of this life, and so that day come upon you with a surprize.

1 Corinthians 5:10-11

I did not mean the vicious Gentiles, the misers, the raparees, or with idolaters; for then you must have gone out of the world.

1 Corinthians 6:10

nor thieves, nor misers, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor raparees, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

Ephesians 5:3-5

But fornication, and all impurity, or inordinate desire, let it not be approved by you, as being unworthy of christians: neither ribaldry,

Colossians 3:5

Mortify therefore your sensual appetites, fornication, impurity, irregular passions, wicked desires, and that licentiousness practised by idolaters.

2 Timothy 3:2

for men will be selfish, avaricious, vain, proud, slanderers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful,

2 Peter 2:3

By their artful discourses they will make you the tools of their avarice; but their condemnation has been a long time advancing, and their ruin is far from lingring.

2 Peter 2:14

their eyes are inflam'd with adultery, and unextinguishable vice: they insnare the souls of the inconstant. their minds are practis'd in the arts of avarice: an execrable race, who have deserted the right way,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

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Bible References

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Mark 4:7
some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choaked it, so that it yielded no fruit.