7 Bible Verses about The Misery Of Greed

So are the ways of everyone who gains by violence;
It takes away the life of its possessors.

He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves abundance with its income. This too is vanity.

“Woe to him who gets evil gain for his house
To put his nest on high,
To be delivered from the hand of calamity!

“You have devised a shameful thing for your house
By cutting off many peoples;
So you are sinning against yourself.

And he threw the pieces of silver into the temple sanctuary and departed; and he went away and hanged himself.

But those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful desires which plunge men into ruin and destruction.

Your gold and your silver have rusted; and their rust will be a witness against you and will consume your flesh like fire. It is in the last days that you have stored up your treasure!