Proverbs 1:19

Advice To The Young

¹⁸ Yea, they themselves lay wait one for another's blood, and one of them would slay another. ¹⁹ These are the ways of all such as be covetous, that one would ravish another's life. ²⁰ Wisdom crieth without and putteth forth her voice in the streets.

Greedy for Gain

Proverbs 15:27

The covetous man rooteth up his own house; but whoso hateth rewards, shall live.

2 Samuel 18:11-13

And Joab said unto him that told him, "Lo, sawest thou him? And why didst thou not there smite him to the ground, that I should have given thee ten sicles of silver and a soldier's girdle?"

2 Kings 5:20-27

And when he was departed from him a furlong of ground, Gehazi the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, "Behold, my master hath spared Naaman, this Syrian, so that he hath not taken from him that which he brought! As surely as the LORD liveth, I will run after him and take somewhat."

Job 31:39

if I have eaten the fruits thereof unpaid for, yea if I have grieved any of the plowmen;

Proverbs 23:3-4

and if thou wilt rule thy own self, be not over greedy of his meat, for meat beguileth and deceiveth.

Ecclesiastes 5:13

Yet is there a sore plague, which I have seen under the sun: namely, riches kept to the hurt of him that hath them in possession.

Jeremiah 22:17-19

Nevertheless, as for thine eyes and thine heart, they look upon covetousness, to shed innocent blood, and to do wrong and violence.'"

Micah 2:1-3

Woe unto them that imagine to do harm, and devise ungraciousness upon their beds, to perform it in the clear day: for their power is against God.

Micah 3:10-12

Ye that build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with doing wrong.

Habakkuk 2:9

Woe unto him, that covetously gathereth evil gotten goods into his house: that he may set his nest on high, to escape from the power of misfortune.

Acts 8:19-20

"Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I put the hands, he may receive the holy ghost."

1 Timothy 3:3

not drunken, no fighter, not given to filthy lucre: but gentle, abhorring fighting, abhorring covetousness,

1 Timothy 6:9-10

They that will be rich, fall into temptation and snares, and into many foolish and noisome lusts, which drown men in perdition and destruction.

James 5:1-4

Go to now, ye rich men. Weep, and howl on your wretchedness that shall come upon you.

2 Peter 2:3

and through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you, whose judgment is not far off, and their damnation sleepeth not.

2 Peter 2:14-16

having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease to sin, beguiling unstable souls. Hearts they have exercised with covetousness. They are cursed children,