Bible Verses of Greed

Tyre has built herself a stronghold; she has heaped up silver like dust, and gold like the dirt of the streets.

Zechariah 9:3

This is what the wicked are like— always free of care, they go on amassing wealth.

Psalms 73:12

They say, “How would God know? Does the Most High know anything?”

Psalms 73:11

Therefore their people turn to them and drink up waters in abundance.

Psalms 73:10

Their mouths lay claim to heaven, and their tongues take possession of the earth.

Psalms 73:9

They scoff, and speak with malice; with arrogance they threaten oppression.

Psalms 73:8

From their callous hearts comes iniquity; their evil imaginations have no limits.

Psalms 73:7

Therefore pride is their necklace; they clothe themselves with violence.

Psalms 73:6

They are free from common human burdens; they are not plagued by human ills.

Psalms 73:5

They have no struggles; their bodies are healthy and strong.

Psalms 73:4

For I envied the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

Psalms 73:3

“The leech has two daughters. ‘Give! Give!` they cry. “There are three things that are never satisfied, four that never say, ‘Enough!`:

Proverbs 30:15

The stingy are eager to get rich and are unaware that poverty awaits them.

Proverbs 28:22

Death and Destruction are never satisfied, and neither are human eyes.

Proverbs 27:20

One who is full loathes honey from the comb, but to the hungry even what is bitter tastes sweet.

Proverbs 27:7

It is not good to eat too much honey, nor is it honorable to search out matters that are too deep.

Proverbs 25:27

If you find honey, eat just enough— too much of it, and you will vomit.

Proverbs 25:16

Cast but a glance at riches, and they are gone, for they will surely sprout wings and fly off to the sky like an eagle.

Proverbs 23:5

Do not wear yourself out to get rich; do not trust your own cleverness.

Proverbs 23:4

if you lack the means to pay, your very bed will be snatched from under you.

Proverbs 22:27

Do not be one who shakes hands in pledge or puts up security for debts;

Proverbs 22:26

One who oppresses the poor to increase his wealth and one who gives gifts to the rich—both come to poverty.

Proverbs 22:16

The wicked accept bribes in secret to pervert the course of justice.

Proverbs 17:23

A bribe is seen as a charm by the one who gives it; they think success will come at every turn.

Proverbs 17:8

The greedy bring ruin to their households, but the one who hates bribes will live.

Proverbs 15:27

Such are the paths of all who go after ill-gotten gain; it takes away the life of those who get it.

Proverbs 1:19

cast lots with us; we will all share the loot”—

Proverbs 1:14

we will get all sorts of valuable things and fill our houses with plunder;

Proverbs 1:13

Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold! The supply is endless, the wealth from all its treasures!

Nahum 2:9

Go ahead, then, and complete what your ancestors started!

Matthew 23:32

So you testify against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets.

Matthew 23:31

And you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our ancestors, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.`

Matthew 23:30

“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous.

Matthew 23:29

In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.

Matthew 23:28

“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean.

Matthew 23:27

Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, and then the outside also will be clean.

Matthew 23:26

“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.

Matthew 23:25

adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly.

Mark 7:22

“This is how it will be with whoever stores up things for themselves but is not rich toward God.”

Luke 12:21

“But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?`

Luke 12:20

And I`ll say to myself, “You have plenty of grain laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry.”`

Luke 12:19

“Then he said, ‘This is what I`ll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store my surplus grain.

Luke 12:18

He thought to himself, ‘What shall I do? I have no place to store my crops.`

Luke 12:17

And he told them this parable: “The ground of a certain rich man yielded an abundant harvest.

Luke 12:16

Then he said to them, “Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions.”

Luke 12:15

So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent, and there it was, hidden in his tent, with the silver underneath.

Joshua 7:22

When I saw in the plunder a beautiful robe from Babylonia, two hundred shekels of silver and a bar of gold weighing fifty shekels, I coveted them and took them. They are hidden in the ground inside my tent, with the silver underneath.”

Joshua 7:21

He did not say this because he cared about the poor but because he was a thief; as keeper of the money bag, he used to help himself to what was put into it.

John 12:6

“Why wasn`t this perfume sold and the money given to the poor? It was worth a year`s wages.”

John 12:5

But one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, who was later to betray him, objected,

John 12:4

so that my heart was secretly enticed and my hand offered them a kiss of homage,

Job 31:27

if I have regarded the sun in its radiance or the moon moving in splendor,

Job 31:26

if I have rejoiced over my great wealth, the fortune my hands had gained,

Job 31:25

“If I have put my trust in gold or said to pure gold, ‘You are my security,`

Job 31:24

“Though his face is covered with fat and his waist bulges with flesh,

Job 15:27

“Come,” each one cries, “let me get wine! Let us drink our fill of beer! And tomorrow will be like today, or even far better.”

Isaiah 56:12

They are dogs with mighty appetites; they never have enough. They are shepherds who lack understanding; they all turn to their own way, they seek their own gain.

Isaiah 56:11

Woe to those who draw sin along with cords of deceit, and wickedness as with cart ropes,

Isaiah 5:18

A ten-acre vineyard will produce only a bath of wine; a homer of seed will yield only an ephah of grain.”

Isaiah 5:10

The Lord Almighty has declared in my hearing: “Surely the great houses will become desolate, the fine mansions left without occupants.

Isaiah 5:9

Woe to you who add house to house and join field to field till no space is left and you live alone in the land.

Isaiah 5:8

Your silver has become dross, your choice wine is diluted with water.

Isaiah 1:22

The violence you have done to Lebanon will overwhelm you, and your destruction of animals will terrify you. For you have shed human blood; you have destroyed lands and cities and everyone in them.

Habakkuk 2:17

You will be filled with shame instead of glory. Now it is your turn! Drink and let your nakedness be exposed! The cup from the Lord`s right hand is coming around to you, and disgrace will cover your glory.

Habakkuk 2:16

“Woe to him who gives drink to his neighbors, pouring it from the wineskin till they are drunk, so that he can gaze on their naked bodies!

Habakkuk 2:15

“Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed and establishes a town by injustice!

Habakkuk 2:12

The stones of the wall will cry out, and the beams of the woodwork will echo it.

Habakkuk 2:11

You have plotted the ruin of many peoples, shaming your own house and forfeiting your life.

Habakkuk 2:10

“Woe to him who builds his house by unjust gain, setting his nest on high to escape the clutches of ruin!

Habakkuk 2:9

Because you have plundered many nations, the peoples who are left will plunder you. For you have shed human blood; you have destroyed lands and cities and everyone in them.

Habakkuk 2:8

Will not your creditors suddenly arise? Will they not wake up and make you tremble? Then you will become their prey.

Habakkuk 2:7

“Will not all of them taunt him with ridicule and scorn, saying, “‘Woe to him who piles up stolen goods and makes himself wealthy by extortion! How long must this go on?`

Habakkuk 2:6

indeed, wine betrays him; he is arrogant and never at rest. Because he is as greedy as the grave and like death is never satisfied, he gathers to himself all the nations and takes captive all the peoples.

Habakkuk 2:5

“See, the enemy is puffed up; his desires are not upright— but the righteous person will live by his faithfulness—

Habakkuk 2:4

Is he to keep on emptying his net, destroying nations without mercy?

Habakkuk 1:17

Therefore he sacrifices to his net and burns incense to his dragnet, for by his net he lives in luxury and enjoys the choicest food.

Habakkuk 1:16

But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God`s holy people.

Ephesians 5:3

Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, and they are full of greed.

Ephesians 4:19

Everyone`s toil is for their mouth, yet their appetite is never satisfied.

Ecclesiastes 6:7

Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry.

Colossians 3:5

In their greed these teachers will exploit you with fabricated stories. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.

2 Peter 2:3

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.

1 Timothy 6:10