48 Bible Verses about Greed
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So the ways of every one plundering plunder; he will take the soul of those possessing it.
And dogs hard of soul, they knew not fulness; and they are evil, they know not understanding; they all looked to their way, a man to his plunder from his extremity.
For the root of all evils is the love of money: which some striving for, have been led astray from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many pains.
And the Lord said to him, Now ye Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and trencher; and your inside is full of plunder and wickedness.
And not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or the rapacious, or idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.
For from their little even to their great, every one plundering, plundered; and from the prophet and even to the priest every one did falsehood.
And by covetousness with feigned words shall trade in you: to whom judgment since a long while is not inactive, and their perdition sleeps not.
And he said to them, See, and watch yourselves from covetousness: for not in the abounding to any one of his possessions is his life.
And fornication, and all uncleanness, or overreaching, let it not be named with you, as becomes the holy;
For this I will give their wives to others; their fields to those inheriting them: for from small and even to great all plundering a plunder, from the prophet and even to the priest, all did falsehood.
Nor thieves; nor covetous, nor intoxicated, nor railers, nor rapacious, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
For neither once in word were we flatterers, as ye know, neither in a pretext of covetousness; God the witness:
For the iniquity of his plunder was I angry, and I will smite him: covering myself, and I will be angry, and he went turning away in the way of his heart.
Therefore kill your members that are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
Tend the flock of God which among you, inspecting, not by force, but voluntarily; neither occupied in sordid gain, but of a ready will;
Thefts, overreaching, deceit, licentiousness, an evil eye, defamation, pride, foolishness:
And now I wrote to you not to mix together, if any called a brother is a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or intoxicated, or rapacious; not to eat with such.
Who no longer having had feeling delivered themselves to licentiousness, to the work of all uncleanness in overreaching.
To the leech two daughters: Give, give. Behold, three shall not satisfied; four shall not say, Wealth:
The justice of the upright shall deliver them, and transgressors shall be taken in their mischief.
For this ye are knowing, that every fornicator, or unclean, or covetous person, who is an idolater, has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
He loving silver shall not be satisfied with silver; and whoever loved not the increase with the multitude. Also this is vanity.
And they will come to thee, according to the coming of the people, and they will sit before thee my people, and they heard thy words, and they did them not: for they making loves with their mouth, their heart went after their plunder.
He enlarging the soul shall excite strife: and he trusting upon Jehovah shall he made fat
Deacons likewise grave, not speaking equivocally, not holding to much wine, not occupied in sordid gain;
And Gehazi the boy of Elisha, the man of God, will say, Behold, my lord spared Naaman this Aramite from taking from his hand what he brought: Jehovah lives, for if I ran after him land book from him something.
His likeness as a lion will long for the prey, and as a young lion dwelling in secret places.
Having eyes full of an adulteress, not ceasing from sin; decoying unstable souls: having a heart exercised with covetousness; children of a curse:
And behold, I stretched forth my hand upon thee, and I will take away thy law, and I will give thee to the soul of those hating thee, the daughters of the rovers, being ashamed of thy way of wickedness.
And he will call the name of that place, The Graves of Longings, for there they buried the people longing.
Having been filled with all injustice, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, badness; full of envy, slaughter, strife, deceit, malignity,
Jehovah will watch him and preserve him alive; he shall be happy upon the earth, and thou wilt not give him to the soul of his enemies.
And his sons went not in his way, and they will incline after plunder, and they will take a gift, and they will turn away from judgment.
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye cleanse the outside of the cup, and the side dish of sweet-meats, and within they are full of pillage and bad mixture.
For he knew not tranquillity in his belly, in his desire he shall not escape.
And the scraped together which in its midst will long a longing; and the sons of Israel also will turn back and weep, and they will say, Who will feed us with flesh?
Behold, this was the iniquity of Sodom thy sister, pride, fulness of bread, security of rest was to her and to her daughters, and she strengthened not the hand of the poor and needy.
And the leprosy of Naaman shall cleave upon thee and upon thy seed forever. And he will go forth from his face being leprous as snow.
From Thematic Bible
balaam » besetting sin » greed
Having forsaken the straight way, they were led astray, having followed in the way of Balaam son of Bosor, who loved the reward of injustice;
greed » General references to
And his sons went not in his way, and they will incline after plunder, and they will take a gift, and they will turn away from judgment.
Her heads will judge for a gift, and her priests will teach for hire, and her prophets will divine for silver: and they will lean upon Jehovah, saying, Is not Jehovah in the midst of us? he will not bring evil upon us.
And dogs hard of soul, they knew not fulness; and they are evil, they know not understanding; they all looked to their way, a man to his plunder from his extremity.
For the root of all evils is the love of money: which some striving for, have been led astray from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many pains.
greed » Misery of
Your gold and silver is become rusty; and their rust shall be for a witness to you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye have gathered up treasures in the last days.
He loving silver shall not be satisfied with silver; and whoever loved not the increase with the multitude. Also this is vanity.
And they wishing to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and many eager desires, unwise and hurtful, which sink men into ruin and perdition.
And having cast down the silver coins in the temple, he withdrew and having gone away, he strangled him self.
So the ways of every one plundering plunder; he will take the soul of those possessing it.
greed » Avaricious men, examples of » Judas
Said, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him to you? and they placed to him thirty silver coins. And from then he sought opportunity, that he might deliver him.
And this he said, not that care was to him for the poor: but because he was a thief, and had the small coffer, and carried things deposited.
greed » Avaricious men, examples of » Achan
And I shall see in the plunder a wide cloak of Shinar, a good one, and two hundred shekels of silver and one tongue of gold of fifty shekels from its weight, and I shall desire them, and shall take them, and behold them hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.
And dogs hard of soul, they knew not fulness; and they are evil, they know not understanding; they all looked to their way, a man to his plunder from his extremity.
greed » Avaricious men, examples of » The jews
Her heads will judge for a gift, and her priests will teach for hire, and her prophets will divine for silver: and they will lean upon Jehovah, saying, Is not Jehovah in the midst of us? he will not bring evil upon us.
Panting for the dust of the earth upon the head of the poor, and they will turn away the way of the humble: and a man and his father will go to the same young girl to profane my holy name:
greed » Results of » Disappointment
He loving silver shall not be satisfied with silver; and whoever loved not the increase with the multitude. Also this is vanity.
greed » Results of » Family trouble
greed » Results of » Apostasy
For the root of all evils is the love of money: which some striving for, have been led astray from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many pains.
greed » Results of » Folly
The partridge brooded and she brought not forth; to make riches and not in judgment, he shall leave them in the half of his days, and in his latter part he shall be foolish.
greed » Avaricious men, examples of » The people of tyre
And Tyre will build for herself a fortress, and she will heap up silver as the dust, and gold as the mud of the streets.
greed » Avaricious men, examples of » balaam
Having forsaken the straight way, they were led astray, having followed in the way of Balaam son of Bosor, who loved the reward of injustice;
greed » Instances of » The descendants of joseph
And the sons of Joseph will speak to Joshua, saying, Why gavest thou to me to inherit one lot and one portion, and I much people, and till this Jehovah blessed me? And Joshua will say to them, If thou much people go up for thyself to the forest, and cut down for thyself there in the land of the Perizzite and of the Rephaims, if mount Ephraim was narrow to thee. And the sons of Joseph will say, The mountain will not suffice to us: and the chariot of iron among all the Canaanites dwelling in the land of the valley, to whom in the House of Rest and her daughters, and to whom in the valley of Jezreel. read more.
And Joshua will say to the house of Joseph, to Ephraim and to Manasseh, saying, Much people art thou, and great power to thee: and one lot shall not be to thee: But the mountain shall be to thee, for it is a forest, and thou shalt cut it down; and its out-goings were to thee; for thou shalt drive out the Canaanite, if the chariot of iron is to him; if he is strong.
greed » Avaricious men, examples of » The masters of the philippian damsel
And her lords having seen that the hope of their gain went out, taking Paul and Silas, they drew to the assembly to the rulers,
greed » Avaricious men, examples of » Governor felix
And at the same time also hoping that money should be given him by Paul, so that he might loose him: wherefore also sending for him more frequently, he conversed with him.
greed » Results of » Misery
Your gold and silver is become rusty; and their rust shall be for a witness to you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye have gathered up treasures in the last days.
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Judas » greed » Protest » Breaking » Ointment
Then says one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, of Simon, being about to deliver him up, Wherefore was not this perfumed oil sold for three hundred drachmas, and given to the poor? And this he said, not that care was to him for the poor: but because he was a thief, and had the small coffer, and carried things deposited.
Judas » greed » His apostasy
When I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those thou hast given me I watched, and not one of them perished, except the son of perdition; that the writing might be completed.
Judas (jude) » Surnamed "iscariot." » greed » By his bargaining to betray jesus for a sum of money
And supper having been, the devil having already cast into the heart of Judas Iscariot, of Simon, that he should deliver him up;
Then one of the twelve having gone forth, he being called Judas Iscariot, to the chief priests, Said, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him to you? and they placed to him thirty silver coins. And from then he sought opportunity, that he might deliver him.
And Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went away to the chief priests, that he might deliver him to them. And having heard, they rejoiced, and promised to give him silver. And he sought how he might opportunely deliver him up.
And Satan came into Judas called Iscariot, being of the number of the twelve. And having departed, he conversed with the chief priests and the generals, how he might deliver him to them. And they rejoiced, and agreed to give him silver. read more.
And he promised, and sought an opportunity to deliver him to them apart from the crowd.
Repression of evil » Seven evils to be repressed » greed
Treasure not up to you treasures upon earth, where moth and gnawing destroy, and thieves dig through and steal:
Seven » Evils to be repressed » greed
Treasure not up to you treasures upon earth, where moth and gnawing destroy, and thieves dig through and steal:
worldly Snares » greed
And they wishing to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and many eager desires, unwise and hurtful, which sink men into ruin and perdition.
Temptation » Special sources of worldly snares » greed
And they wishing to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and many eager desires, unwise and hurtful, which sink men into ruin and perdition.
Topics on Greed
Greed, Believers' Response To
Proverbs 28:6Good the poor one going in his integrity above him perverting the ways, and he the rich.
Greed, Condemnation Of
Psalm 10:3For the unjust boasted upon the desire of his soul, and he blessed him plundering, despising Jehovah.
The Misery Of Greed
Proverbs 1:19So the ways of every one plundering plunder; he will take the soul of those possessing it.
