Ecclesiastes 5:11
When someone's prosperity increases, those who consume it also increase; so what does its owner gain, except that he gets to see it with his eyes?
Genesis 12:16
and he did treat Abram well on account of her. Abram received sheep and cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.
Genesis 13:2
(Now Abram was very wealthy in livestock, silver, and gold.)
Genesis 13:5-7
Now Lot, who was traveling with Abram, also had flocks, herds, and tents.
Joshua 7:21-25
I saw among the goods we seized a nice robe from Babylon, two hundred silver pieces, and a bar of gold weighing fifty shekels. I wanted them, so I took them. They are hidden in the ground right in the middle of my tent with the silver underneath."
1 Kings 4:22-23
Each day Solomon's royal court consumed thirty cors of finely milled flour, sixty cors of cereal,
1 Kings 5:13-16
King Solomon conscripted work crews from throughout Israel, 30,000 men in all.
Nehemiah 5:17-18
There were 150 Jews and officials who dined with me routinely, in addition to those who came to us from the nations all around us.
Psalm 119:36-37
Give me a desire for your rules, rather than for wealth gained unjustly.
Proverbs 23:5
When you gaze upon riches, they are gone, for they surely make wings for themselves, and fly off into the sky like an eagle!
Ecclesiastes 6:9
It is better to be content with what the eyes can see than for one's heart always to crave more. This continual longing is futile -- like chasing the wind.
Ecclesiastes 11:9
Rejoice, young man, while you are young, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Follow the impulses of your heart and the desires of your eyes, but know that God will judge your motives and actions.
Jeremiah 17:11
The person who gathers wealth by unjust means is like the partridge that broods over eggs but does not hatch them. Before his life is half over he will lose his ill-gotten gains. At the end of his life it will be clear he was a fool."
Habakkuk 2:13
Be sure of this! The Lord who commands armies has decreed: The nations' efforts will go up in smoke; their exhausting work will be for nothing.
1 John 2:16
because all that is in the world (the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the arrogance produced by material possessions) is not from the Father, but is from the world.