Proverbs 1:19

Advice To The Young

¹⁸ They lie in wait for their [own] blood. They ambush their [own] lives. ¹⁹ Thus are the ways of all who are greedy [for] gain-- it will take the life of its possessors. ²⁰ Wisdom calls out in the streets, in the squares she raises her voice.

Greedy for Gain

Proverbs 15:27

He who makes trouble for his house [is] he who is greedy for unjust gain, but he who hates bribes will live.

2 Samuel 18:11-13

Then Joab said to the man who [was] telling him, "Look, [if] you saw, why did you not strike him down to the ground there? {I would have gladly given you} ten pieces of silver and a leather belt."

2 Kings 5:20-27

But Gehazi the servant of Elisha, the man of God, thought, "Look, my master has refrained from taking what this Aramean Naaman brought from his hand. {As Yahweh lives}, I will certainly run after him, and I will accept something from him."

Job 31:39

if I have eaten its yield without payment, or I have caused [the] breath of its owners to die,

Proverbs 23:3-4

Do not desire his delicacies, for it is food of deception.

Ecclesiastes 5:13

There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth {hoarded} by its owner to his harm.

Jeremiah 22:17-19

"But there is nothing [in] your eyes and your heart {except} your unlawful gain, and on shedding the blood of the innocent, and on committing oppression and extortion."

Micah 2:1-3

Woe [to] those who plan wickedness and evil deeds upon their beds! In the light of the morning they did it, because they have power in their hands.

Micah 3:10-12

he who builds Zion with blood and Jerusalem with wickedness.

Habakkuk 2:9

Woe to [him who] obtains profit [from] evil gain for his house, to set his nest on high, to be saved from the hand of misfortune!

Acts 8:19-20

saying, "Give to me also this power, so that whomever I place [my] hands on may receive the Holy Spirit!"

1 Timothy 3:3

not addicted to wine, not a violent person, but gentle, peaceable, not loving money,

1 Timothy 6:9-10

But those who want to be rich fall into temptation and a trap and many foolish and harmful desires, which plunge those people into ruin and destruction.

James 5:1-4

Come now, you rich people, weep [and] cry aloud over the miseries that are coming upon you!

2 Peter 2:3

And in greediness they will exploit you with false words, whose condemnation [from] long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.

2 Peter 2:14-16

having eyes full of [desire for] an adulteress and unceasing from sin, enticing unstable persons, [and] having hearts trained for greediness. Accursed children!