Jeremiah 17:11
A partridge hatching, and not bringing forth, Is one making wealth, and not by right, In the midst of his days he doth forsake it, And in his latter end -- he is a fool.
Luke 12:20
And God said to him, Unthinking one! this night thy soul they shall require from thee, and what things thou didst prepare -- to whom shall they be?
Psalm 55:23
And Thou, O God, dost bring them down To a pit of destruction, Men of blood and deceit reach not to half their days, And I -- I do trust in Thee!
Jeremiah 22:13
Woe to him who is building his house by unrighteousness, And his upper chambers by injustice, On his neighbour he layeth service for nought, And his wage he doth not give to him.
Jeremiah 22:17
But thine eyes and thy heart are not, Except on thy dishonest gain, And on shedding of innocent blood, And on oppression, and on doing of violence.
Proverbs 1:18-19
And they for their own blood lay wait, They watch secretly for their own lives.
Proverbs 13:11
Wealth from vanity becometh little, And whoso is gathering by the hand becometh great.
Proverbs 15:27
A dishonest gainer is troubling his house, And whoso is hating gifts liveth.
Proverbs 21:6
The making of treasures by a lying tongue, Is a vanity driven away of those seeking death.
Proverbs 23:5
For wealth maketh to itself wings, As an eagle it flieth to the heavens.
Proverbs 28:8
Whoso is multiplying his wealth by biting and usury, For one favouring the poor doth gather it.
Proverbs 28:16
A leader lacking understanding multiplieth oppressions, Whoso is hating dishonest gain prolongeth days.
Proverbs 28:20
A stedfast man hath multiplied blessings, And whoso is hasting to be rich is not acquitted.
Proverbs 28:22
Troubled for wealth is the man with an evil eye, And he knoweth not that want doth meet him.
Ecclesiastes 5:13-16
There is a painful evil I have seen under the sun: wealth kept for its possessor, for his evil.
Isaiah 1:23-24
Thy princes are apostates, and companions of thieves, Every one loving a bribe, and pursuing rewards, The fatherless they judge not, And the plea of the widow cometh not to them.
Jeremiah 5:27-28
As a cage full of fowls, So their houses are full of deceit, Therefore they have been great, and are rich.
Ezekiel 22:12-13
A bribe they have taken in thee to shed blood, Usury and increase thou hast taken, And cuttest off thy neighbour by oppression, And Me thou hast forgotten, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah!
Hosea 12:7-8
Canaan! in his hand are balances of deceit! To oppress he hath loved.
Amos 3:10
And they have not known to act straightforwardly, An affirmation of Jehovah, Who are treasuring up violence and spoil in their palaces.
Amos 8:4-6
Hear this, ye who are swallowing up the needy, To cause to cease the poor of the land,
Micah 2:1-2
Woe to those devising iniquity, And working evil on their beds, In the light of the morning they do it, For their hand is -- to God.
Micah 2:9
The women of My people ye cast out from its delightful house, From its sucklings ye take away My honour to the age.
Micah 6:10-12
Are there yet in the house of the wicked Treasures of wickedness, And the abhorred scanty ephah?
Micah 7:3
On the evil are both hands to do it well, The prince is asking -- also the judge -- for recompence, And the great -- he is speaking the mischief of his soul, And they wrap it up.
Habakkuk 2:6-12
Do not these -- all of them -- against him a simile taken up, And a moral of acute sayings for him, And say, Woe to him who is multiplying what is not his? Till when also is he multiplying to himself heavy pledges?
Zephaniah 1:9
And I have laid a charge on every one Who is leaping over the threshold in that day, Who are filling the house of their masters With violence and deceit.
Zechariah 5:4
I have brought it out -- an affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts -- and it hath come in unto the house of the thief, and unto the house of him who hath sworn in My name to a falsehood, and it hath remained in the midst of his house, and hath consumed it, both its wood and its stones.'
Zechariah 7:9-13
'Thus spake Jehovah of Hosts, saying: True judgment judge ye, And kindness and mercy do one with another.
Malachi 3:5
And I have drawn near to you for judgment, And I have been a witness, Making haste against sorcerers, And against adulterers, And against swearers to a falsehood, And against oppressors of the hire of an hireling, Of a widow, and of a fatherless one, And those turning aside a sojourner, And who fear Me not, said Jehovah of Hosts.
Matthew 23:13
'Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye shut up the reign of the heavens before men, for ye do not go in, nor those going in do ye suffer to enter.
1 Timothy 6:9
and those wishing to be rich, do fall into temptation and a snare, and many desires, foolish and hurtful, that sink men into ruin and destruction,
Titus 1:11
whose mouth it behoveth to stop, who whole households do overturn, teaching what things it behoveth not, for filthy lucre's sake.
James 5:3-5
your gold and silver have rotted, and the rust of them for a testimony shall be to you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye made treasure in the last days!
2 Peter 2:3
and in covetousness, with moulded words, of you they shall make merchandise, whose judgment of old is not idle, and their destruction doth not slumber.
2 Peter 2:14
having eyes full of adultery, and unable to cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having an heart exercised in covetousnesses, children of a curse,