Proverbs 28:22

All About Life

²¹ To show partiality is not good,
Because for a piece of bread a man will transgress.
²² A man with an evil eye hastens after wealth
And does not know that want will come upon him.
²³ He who rebukes a man will afterward find more favor
Than he who flatters with the tongue.

Leads to Poverty

Proverbs 23:6

Do not eat the bread of a selfish man,
Or desire his delicacies;

Proverbs 28:20

A faithful man will abound with blessings,
But he who makes haste to be rich will not go unpunished.

1 Timothy 6:9

But those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful desires which plunge men into ruin and destruction.

Genesis 13:10-13

Lot lifted up his eyes and saw all the valley of the Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere—this was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah—like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt as you go to Zoar.

Genesis 19:17

When they had brought them outside, one said, “Escape for your life! Do not look behind you, and do not stay anywhere in the valley; escape to the mountains, or you will be swept away.”

Job 20:18-22

“He returns what he has attained
And cannot swallow it;
As to the riches of his trading,
He cannot even enjoy them.

Job 27:16-17

“Though he piles up silver like dust
And prepares garments as plentiful as the clay,

Matthew 20:15

Is it not lawful for me to do what I wish with what is my own? Or is your eye envious because I am generous?’

Mark 7:22

deeds of coveting and wickedness, as well as deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride and foolishness.