1 Timothy 6:9
Those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and hurtful lusts. These draw men into ruin and destruction.
Proverbs 15:27
He who is greedy of gain troubles his own house. But he who hates gifts will live.
1 Timothy 3:7
He must have a good reputation with those outside the congregation, so that he will not fall into reproach and the snare of the Devil.
Matthew 13:22
He that was sown among thorns hears the word. The cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.
Genesis 13:10-13
Lot looked up and saw that the district of the Jordan River was well watered, like the garden of Jehovah, like the land of Egypt, toward Zoar. This was before Jehovah destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.
Numbers 22:17-19
I will make sure you are richly rewarded. I will do whatever you ask. Please, come and curse (execrate) these people for me.'
Numbers 31:8
Included in those killed were the five kings of Midian-Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba. They also killed Balaam, son of Beor, in battle.
Deuteronomy 7:25
Burn the carved images of their gods with fire. Do not covet the silver or the gold that is on them. Do not take it for yourselves, or you will be snared by it. It is an abomination to Jehovah your God.
Joshua 7:11
Israel has sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant I commanded them to keep. They have taken some of the devoted things and put them in their own possessions.
Joshua 7:24-26
And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had: and they brought them unto the valley of Achor.
2 Kings 5:20-27
when Elisha's servant Gehazi said to himself: My master has let Naaman get away without paying a thing! He should have accepted what that Syrian offered him. By the living God Jehovah I will run after him and get something from him.
Psalm 11:6
He rains down fire and burning sulfur upon wicked people. He makes them drink from a cup filled with scorching wind.
Proverbs 1:17-19
Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
Proverbs 20:21
An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but in the end it will not be blessed.
Proverbs 21:6
Wealth acquired by lying is fleeting vapor and a deadly pursuit.
Proverbs 22:16
He who gets ahead by oppressing the poor and giving to the rich will certainly suffer loss.
Proverbs 23:4
Do not exhaust yourself to get rich. Be wise and show restraint.
Proverbs 28:20-22
A faithful man will have many blessings. But he who hurries to be rich will not go unpunished.
Isaiah 5:8
Cursed are those who are joining house to house, and putting field to field, till there is no more living-space for any but themselves in all the land!
Hosea 12:7-8
Jehovah says: The merchants use dishonest scales. They love to cheat people.
Amos 8:4-6
Hear this, you who would swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail.
Zechariah 11:5
Their owners slay them and claim they are not guilty. They that sell them say: Blessed be Jehovah, for I am rich and their own shepherds do not pity them.
Matthew 19:22
But hearing these words, the young man went away grieving, for he was very wealthy.
Matthew 26:15
He asked them: What are you willing to give me to deliver him to you? They paid him thirty pieces of silver.
Matthew 27:3-5
Judas, his betrayer, heard he was to be put to death. Out of regret, he took the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and those in authority.
Mark 4:19
but the cares of the world, the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts for other things enter in and choke the word. So it becomes unfruitful.
Luke 21:35
It will come as a surprise to all who dwell on the face of the earth.
Acts 5:4-5
While it remained, was it not your own? And after it was sold, was it not in your power? Why did you conceive this thing in your heart? You have not lied to men, but to God.
Acts 8:20
Peter said to him: Your money will perish with you, because you think that the gift of God may be purchased with money.
Ephesians 4:22
You put away your former way (course) (behavior) (conversation) of life, the old self that was corrupt with the lusts of deceit.
1 Timothy 1:9
Knowing this, that Law is not made for a righteous person. It is for the lawless and unruly, the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, and for manslayers.
2 Timothy 2:26
They should come to their senses out of the snare of the Devil. He has taken them captive and they do his will.
James 5:1-4
Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you.
2 Peter 2:3
They speak evil words about you because of their extreme greed. They will exploit you with false evil words. Their judgment from long ago is not idle. Their destruction will not delay.
2 Peter 2:15-16
They went astray, forsaking the right way. They followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing.
1 John 2:15-17
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If any one loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
Jude 1:11
Woe to them! They went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in the rebellious talk of Korah.