8 Bible Verses about Hoarding
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for where your treasury is, there will your heart be also.
For we brought nothing into the world; it is clear that we can carry nothing out of it;
But those who wish to be rich fall into trial and a snare, and many foolish and injurious desires, which plunge men into destruction and perdition. For the love of money is a root of all evils, which some having desired have been misled from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
And one Ananias by name, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession, and he kept back a part of the price, his wife also being privy to it, and bringing a certain part laid it at the apostles' feet.
Lay not up for yourselves treasures on the earth, where a moth and corrosion destroy, and where thieves dig through and steal.
Jesus said to him, If you will be perfect, go and sell your property, and give to the poor, and you shall have a treasure in heaven; and come and follow me.
Sell your property and bestow charity; make yourselves purses that become not old, and a treasury that fails not, in heaven, where no thief approaches, nor moth destroys;
Come now, rich men, weep and lament for the miseries which are coming upon you. Your riches have decayed, and your garments are moth-eaten, your gold and silver are destroyed with rust, and their rust will be a witness against you, and consume your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasures for the last days.
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