Proverbs 1:19

Advice To The Young

¹⁸ And they lie in wait for their own blood; they lurk secretly for their own lives. ¹⁹ So are the ways of everyone that is greedy of gain; which takes away the life of its owners. ²⁰ Wisdom cries aloud outside; she raises her voice in the open square:

Greedy for Gain

Proverbs 15:27

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

2 Samuel 18:11-13

And Joab said unto the man that told him, And, behold, you saw him, and why did you not strike him there to the ground? and I would have given you ten shekels of silver, and a belt.

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 from his hands that which he brought: but, as the LORD lives, I will run after him, and take something from him.

Job 31:39

If I have eaten its fruit without payment, or have caused its owners to lose their life:

Proverbs 23:3-4

Be not desirous of his delicacies: for they are deceitful food.

Ecclesiastes 5:13

There is a great evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept by their owners to their hurt.

Jeremiah 22:17-19

But your eyes and your heart are for nothing but for your covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.

Micah 2:1-3

Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

Micah 3:10-12

They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

Habakkuk 2:9

Woe to him that covets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of ruin!

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 violent, not greedy of money; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;

1 Timothy 6:9-10

But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which plunge men into destruction and perdition.

James 5:1-4

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

2 Peter 2:3

And through covetousness shall they with false words exploit you: whose judgment of old now lingers not, and their destruction slumbers not.

2 Peter 2:14-16

Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: a heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children: