Bible Verses About Greed
9 Bible verses about Greed to read, reflect on, and commit to memory.
He said to them, “Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.”
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”
“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.
He who trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous shall flourish as the green leaf.
He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he who loves abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.
One who is greedy stirs up strife; but one who trusts in Yahweh will prosper.
But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.
No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. You aren’t able to serve God and Mammon.”