1 Timothy 6:9-10
But men who keep planning to get rich fall into temptations and snares and many foolish, hurtful desires which plunge people into destruction and ruin.
James 4:2-7
You covet things, but cannot acquire them, and so you quarrel and fight. You do not have them, because you do not ask for them.
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And he said unto her, Because I spake unto Naboth the Jezreelite, and said unto him, Give me thy vineyard for money; or else, if it please thee, I will give thee another vineyard for it: and he answered, I will not give thee my vineyard.
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Because
1 Timothy 6:9
But men who keep planning to get rich fall into temptations and snares and many foolish, hurtful desires which plunge people into destruction and ruin.
James 4:2
You covet things, but cannot acquire them, and so you quarrel and fight. You do not have them, because you do not ask for them.