7 Bible Verses about The Misery Of Greed

So are the paths of every one that is greedy of gain: it taketh away the life of its possessors.

He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he that loveth abundance with increase. This also is vanity.

Woe to him that getteth iniquitous gain to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the grasp of evil!

Thou hast devised shame to thy house, by cutting off many peoples, and hast sinned against thine own soul.

And having cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, he left the place, and went away and hanged himself.

But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and many unwise and hurtful lusts, which plunge men into destruction and ruin.

Your gold and silver is eaten away, and their canker shall be for a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye have heaped up treasure in the last days.