Proverbs 1:19

Advice To The Young

¹⁸ And they lay in wait for their own blood; they ambush their own souls. ¹⁹ So are the ways of everyone who gains by violence;
It takes away the life of its possessors. ²⁰ Wisdom cries without; she utters her voice in the streets:

Greedy for Gain

Proverbs 15:27

He that is greedy of gain troubles his own house, but he that hates gifts shall live.

2 Samuel 18:11-13

And Joab replied unto the man that told him, Behold, when thou didst see him, why didst thou not smite him there to the ground? I would have given thee ten shekels of silver and a girdle.

2 Kings 5:20-27

But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my master has spared Naaman, this Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought. As the LORD lives, I will run after him and take something from him.

Job 31:39

if I ate of its strength without money or have afflicted the soul of its owners;

Proverbs 23:3-4

Do not be desirous of his dainties; for they are deceitful food.

Ecclesiastes 5:13

There is another sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt;

Jeremiah 22:17-19

But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness and for to shed innocent blood and for oppression and for violence, to do it.

Micah 2:1-3

Woe unto those that devise iniquity and fabricate evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they put it into effect because they have power in their hands.

Micah 3:10-12

that build up Zion with blood and Jerusalem with iniquity;

Habakkuk 2:9

Woe to him that covets ill-gotten gain by violence for his house that he may set his nest on high, that he may escape from the power of evil!

Acts 8:19-20

saying, Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I lay hands, he may receive the Holy Spirit.

1 Timothy 3:3

not given to wine, not hurtful, not greedy of dishonest gain, but gentle, not contentious, not covetous;

1 Timothy 6:9-10

For those that desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition.

James 5:1-4

Come now, Oh ye rich, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.

2 Peter 2:3

and in covetousness they shall make merchandise of you with feigned words, upon whom the condemnation from a long time ago does not delay, and their perdition does not sleep.

2 Peter 2:14-16

having their eyes full of adultery, and not knowing how to cease from sin, baiting unstable souls, having their heart exercised in covetous practices; cursed sons,