Thematic Bible: Covetous people

Someone from the crowd said to Him, Master, order my brother to divide the inheritance and share it with me. But He told him, Man, who has appointed Me a judge or umpire and divider over you? And He said to them, Guard yourselves and keep free from all covetousness (the immoderate desire for wealth, the greedy longing to have more); for a man's life does not consist in and is not derived from possessing overflowing abundance or that which is over and above his needs. read more.
Then He told them a parable, saying, The land of a rich man was fertile and yielded plentifully. And he considered and debated within himself, What shall I do? I have no place [in which] to gather together my harvest. And he said, I will do this: I will pull down my storehouses and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain or produce and my goods. And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have many good things laid up, [enough] for many years. Take your ease; eat, drink, and enjoy yourself merrily. But God said to him, You fool! This very night they [the messengers of God] will demand your soul of you; and all the things that you have prepared, whose will they be? So it is with the one who continues to lay up and hoard possessions for himself and is not rich [in his relation] to God [this is how he fares].

For be sure of this: no immoral, impure, or greedy person—for that one is [in effect] an idolater—has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God [for such a person places a higher value on something other than God].

Verse Concepts

LicentiousnessCovetingFornicationBeing A Part Of The Family Of GodGreed, Condemnation OfNames For HeavenImperfection, And God's PurposesKingdom Of God, Entry IntoMoney, Attitudes ToMorality, And RedemptionCovetousness, Nature of

Idolatry Consists OfExclusionNature Of IdolatryReasons To Wait For MarriageOccupants Of HellUniversalismSexual Immorality Brings PunishmentCovetousnessGreedGay Marriage