10 Bible Verses about Materialism

"No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.

shepherd the flock of God that is among you, exercising oversight,not under compulsion, but willingly, as God would have you;not for shameful gain, but eagerly;

Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife,sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,

Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, "I will never leave you nor forsake you."

those who trust in their wealth and boast of the abundance of their riches?

Whoever trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous will flourish like a green leaf.

And Gideon said to them, "Let me make a request of you: every one of you give me the earrings from his spoil." (For they had golden earrings, because they were Ishmaelites.) And they answered, "We will willingly give them." And they spread a cloak, and every man threw in it the earrings of his spoil. And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was 1,700 shekels of gold, besides the crescent ornaments and the pendants and the purple garments worn by the kings of Midian, and besides the collars that were around the necks of their camels.read more.
And Gideon made an ephod of it and put it in his city, in Ophrah. And all Israel whored after it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and to his family.

He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves wealth with his income; this also is vanity.

"Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal,