Jeremiah 17:11
The deceitful maketh a nest, but bringeth forth no young: He cometh by riches, but not righteously. In the midst of his life must he leave them behind him, and at the last be found a very fool.
Luke 12:20
But God said unto him, 'Thou fool, this night will they fetch away thy soul again from thee. Then whose shall those things be which thou hast provided?'
Psalm 55:23
But as for them, thou, O God, shalt bring them into the pit of destruction. The bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days. Nevertheless, my trust shall be in thee, O LORD.
Jeremiah 22:13
Woe worth him, that buildeth his house with unrighteousness, and his parlors with the good that he hath gotten by violence: which never recompenceth his neighbour's labour, nor payeth him his hire.
Jeremiah 22:17
Nevertheless, as for thine eyes and thine heart, they look upon covetousness, to shed innocent blood, and to do wrong and violence.'"
Proverbs 1:18-19
Yea, they themselves lay wait one for another's blood, and one of them would slay another.
Proverbs 13:11
Hastily gotten goods are soon spent; but they that be gathered together with the hand, shall increase.
Proverbs 15:27
The covetous man rooteth up his own house; but whoso hateth rewards, shall live.
Proverbs 21:6
Whoso hordeth up riches with the deceitfulness of his tongue: he is a fool, and like unto them that seek their own death.
Proverbs 23:5
Why wilt thou set thine eye upon the thing, which suddenly vanisheth away? For riches make themselves wings, and take their flight like an Eagle into the air.
Proverbs 28:8
Whoso increaseth his riches by vantage and winning, let him gather them to help the poor withal.
Proverbs 28:16
Where the prince is without understanding, there is great oppression and wrong; but if he be such one as hateth covetousness, he shall long reign.
Proverbs 28:20
A faithful man is greatly to be commended, but he that maketh too much haste for to be rich, shall not be unguilty.
Proverbs 28:22
He that will be rich all too soon, hath an evil eye; and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him.
Ecclesiastes 5:13-16
Yet is there a sore plague, which I have seen under the sun: namely, riches kept to the hurt of him that hath them in possession.
Isaiah 1:23-24
Thy princes are traitors and companions of thieves. They love gifts altogether, and gape for rewards. As for the fatherless, they help him not to his right, neither will they let the widows causes come before them.
Jeremiah 5:27-28
And like as a net is full of birds, so are their houses full of that which they have gotten with falsity and deceit. Hereof cometh their great substance and riches,
Ezekiel 22:12-13
Yea, gifts have been received in thee to shed blood. Thou hast taken usury and increase, thou hast oppressed thy neighbours by extortion, and forgotten me, sayeth the LORD God.
Hosea 12:7-8
But the merchant hath a false weight in his hand, he hath a pleasure to occupy extortion.
Amos 3:10
sayeth the LORD: they gather together evil gotten goods, and lay up robbery in their houses.'
Amos 8:4-6
Hear this, O ye that oppress the poor, and destroy the needy in the lands, saying,
Micah 2:1-2
Woe unto them that imagine to do harm, and devise ungraciousness upon their beds, to perform it in the clear day: for their power is against God.
Micah 2:9
the women of my people have ye shot out from their good houses, and taken away my excellent gifts from their children.
Micah 6:10-12
Should I not be displeased, for the unrighteous good in the houses of the wicked and because the measure is diminished?
Micah 7:3
yet they say they do well when they do evil. As the prince will, so sayeth the judge: that he may do him a pleasure again. The great man speaketh what his heart desireth; and the hearers allow him.
Habakkuk 2:6-12
But shall not all these take up a proverb against him, and mock him with a byword, and say, "Woe unto him that heapeth up other men's goods: How long will he lade himself with thick clay?"
Zephaniah 1:9
In the same day also will I visit all those that tread over the threshold so proudly, which fill their lords' house with robbery and falsity.
Zechariah 5:4
I will bring it forth, sayeth the LORD of Hosts, so that it shall come to the house of the thief, and to the house of him, that falsely sweareth by my name: and shall remain in his house, and consume it, with the timber and stones thereof.'
Zechariah 7:9-13
"Thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts, 'Execute true judgment, and show mercy and loving-kindness, every man to his brother.
Malachi 3:5
I will come and punish you, and I myself will be a swift witness against the witches, against the adulterers, against false swearers: yea, and against those that wrongfully keep back the hireling's duty, which vex the widows and the fatherless, and oppress the stranger, and fear not me, sayeth the LORD of Hosts.
Matthew 23:13
Woe be unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven before men: ye yourselves go not in, neither suffer ye them that come to enter in.
1 Timothy 6:9
They that will be rich, fall into temptation and snares, and into many foolish and noisome lusts, which drown men in perdition and destruction.
Titus 1:11
whose mouths must be stopped, which pervert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, because of filthy lucre.
James 5:3-5
Your gold and your silver are cankered, and the rust of them shall be a witness unto you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together in your last days.
2 Peter 2:3
and through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you, whose judgment is not far off, and their damnation sleepeth not.
2 Peter 2:14
having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease to sin, beguiling unstable souls. Hearts they have exercised with covetousness. They are cursed children,