7 Bible Verses about The Misery Of Greed
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So are the ways of everyone who is greedy of gain. It takes away the life of the owners of it.
He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he who loves abundance, with increase. This also is vanity.
Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!
Thou have devised shame to thy house, by cutting off many peoples, and have sinned against thy soul.
And having cast down the silver pieces in the temple, he departed, and after going away, he hanged himself.
But those who want to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, which sink men in destruction and ruin.
Your gold and your silver have cankered, and their corrosion will be testimony against you, and will eat your flesh like fire. Ye have hoarded in the last days.