Luke 12:15

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Luke 12:15

He then told them, “Watch out and be on guard against all greed because one’s life is not in the abundance of his possessions.”

1 Timothy 6:6-10

But godliness with contentment is a great gain.

Hebrews 13:5

Your life should be free from the love of money. Be satisfied with what you have, for He Himself has said, I will never leave you or forsake you.

Psalm 62:10

Place no trust in oppression,
or false hope in robbery.
If wealth increases,
pay no attention to it.

When I saw among the spoils a beautiful cloak from Babylon, 200 silver shekels, and a bar of gold weighing 50 shekels, I coveted them and took them. You can see for yourself. They are concealed in the ground inside my tent, with the money under the cloak.”

Job 2:4

“Skin for skin!” Satan answered the Lord. “A man will give up everything he owns in exchange for his life.

Job 31:24-25

If I placed my confidence in gold
or called fine gold my trust,

Psalm 10:3

For the wicked one boasts about his own cravings;
the one who is greedy curses and despises the Lord.

Psalm 37:16

The little that the righteous man has is better
than the abundance of many wicked people.

Psalm 119:36-37

Turn my heart to Your decrees
and not to material gain.

Proverbs 15:16

Better a little with the fear of the Lord
than great treasure with turmoil.

Proverbs 16:16

Get wisdom—
how much better it is than gold!
And get understanding—
it is preferable to silver.

Proverbs 23:4-5

Don’t wear yourself out to get rich;
stop giving your attention to it.

Proverbs 28:16

A leader who lacks understanding
is very oppressive,
but one who hates dishonest profit
prolongs his life.

Ecclesiastes 4:6-8

Better one handful with rest
than two handfuls with effort and a pursuit of the wind.

Ecclesiastes 5:10-16

The one who loves money is never satisfied with money, and whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with income. This too is futile.

Jeremiah 6:13

For from the least to the greatest of them,
everyone is making profit dishonestly.
From prophet to priest,
everyone deals falsely.

Jeremiah 22:17-18

But you have eyes and a heart for nothing
except your own dishonest profit,
shedding innocent blood
and committing extortion and oppression.

Micah 2:2

They covet fields and seize them;
they also take houses.
They deprive a man of his home,
a person of his inheritance.

Habakkuk 2:9

Woe to him who dishonestly makes
wealth for his house
to place his nest on high,
to escape from the reach of disaster!

Matthew 6:25-26

“This is why I tell you: Don’t worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food and the body more than clothing?

Mark 7:22

adulteries, greed, evil actions, deceit, promiscuity, stinginess, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.

Luke 8:14

As for the seed that fell among thorns, these are the ones who, when they have heard, go on their way and are choked with worries, riches, and pleasures of life, and produce no mature fruit.

Luke 16:14

The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, were listening to all these things and scoffing at Him.

Luke 21:34

“Be on your guard, so that your minds are not dulled from carousing, drunkenness, and worries of life, or that day will come on you unexpectedly

1 Corinthians 5:10-11

I did not mean the immoral people of this world or the greedy and swindlers or idolaters; otherwise you would have to leave the world.

1 Corinthians 6:10

no thieves, greedy people, drunkards, verbally abusive people, or swindlers will inherit God’s kingdom.

Ephesians 5:3-5

But sexual immorality and any impurity or greed should not even be heard of among you, as is proper for saints.

Colossians 3:5

Therefore, put to death what belongs to your worldly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry.

2 Timothy 3:2

For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,

2 Peter 2:3

They will exploit you in their greed with deceptive words. Their condemnation, pronounced long ago, is not idle, and their destruction does not sleep.

2 Peter 2:14

They have eyes full of adultery and are always looking for sin. They seduce unstable people and have hearts trained in greed. Children under a curse!

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Summary

Luke 12:15

And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.

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Bible References

General references

Do not covet your neighbor’s wife or desire your neighbor’s house, his field, his male or female slave, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.

If I placed my confidence in gold
or called fine gold my trust,

We’ll find all kinds of valuable property
and fill our houses with plunder.

Other seed fell among thorns, and the thorns came up and choked it, and it didn’t produce a crop.