10 Bible Verses about Materialism

"No one can serve two masters, because either he will hate one and love the other, or be loyal to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and riches!"

Be shepherds of God's flock that is among you, watching over it, not because you must but because you want to, and not greedily but eagerly, as God desires.

Therefore, an elder must be blameless, the husband of one wife, stable, sensible, respectable, hospitable to strangers, and teachable.

Keep your lives free from the love of money, and be content with what you have, for God has said, "I will never leave you or abandon you."

those who put confidence in their wealth and boast about their great riches?

The person who trusts in his wealth will fall, but the righteous will flourish like green leaves.

But Gideon also added, "I would like to ask that each of you give me a ring from his war booty" because, as Ishmaelites, the Midianites had been wearing gold rings. They responded, "We'll be happy to give them." So they laid out a garment, and each of them contributed a ring from his war booty. The weight of the rings that he had asked for was 1,700 gold coins, not counting the crescent-shaped necklaces, pendants, and purple garments worn by the Midian kings, and also not counting the bands adorning the necks of their camels.read more.
Gideon crafted the booty into an ephod and enshrined it in his home town of Ophrah. Then all of Israel committed spiritual adultery with it there, and it became a snare for Gideon and his household.

Whoever loves money will never have enough money. Whoever loves luxury will not be content with abundance. This also is pointless.

"Stop storing up treasures for yourselves on earth, where moths and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal.