7 Bible Verses about The Misery Of Greed

Such are the ways of every one that graspeth with greed, The life of the owners thereof, it taketh away!

He that loveth silver, shall not be satisfied with silver nor, he that loveth abundance, with revenue, - -even this, was vanity.

Alas! for him who extorteth an extortion of wrong for his own house, - that he may set on high his nest, that he may be delivered from the grasp of calamity.

Thou hast counseled shame to thy house - making an end of many peoples, and endangering thine own life.

And, throwing the pieces of silver into the Temple, he withdrew, and, going away, hanged himself.

But, they who are determined to be rich, fall into temptation, and a snare, and many foolish and hurtful covetings, the which, sink men into ruin and destruction, -

Your gold and silver, have rusted away, and, their rust, shall be, witness against you, and shall eat your flesh, as fire! Ye have laid up treasure in days of extremity: -