Ecclesiastes 6:7
All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
Proverbs 16:26
The appetite of the labourer laboureth for him, for his mouth urgeth him on.
Genesis 3:17-19
And to Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed be the ground on thy account; with toil shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
Ecclesiastes 5:10
He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he that loveth abundance with increase. This also is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 6:3
If a man beget a hundred sons, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, but his soul be not filled with good, and also he have no burial, I say an untimely birth is better than he.
Matthew 6:25
For this cause I say unto you, Do not be careful about your life, what ye should eat and what ye should drink; nor for your body what ye should put on. Is not the life more than food, and the body than raiment?
Luke 12:19
and I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much good things laid by for many years; repose thyself, eat, drink, be merry.
John 6:27
Work not for the food which perishes, but for the food which abides unto life eternal, which the Son of man shall give to you; for him has the Father sealed, even God.
1 Timothy 6:6-8
But piety with contentment is great gain.