100 Bible Verses About Greed

Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded in my habitation; and honourest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people?

And it came to pass after this, that Absalom prepared him chariots and horses, and fifty men to run before him.

Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and stank: and Moses was wroth with them.

But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand.

Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.

And the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew them on the ground: and the people did eat them with the blood.

And the other woman said, Nay; but the living is my son, and the dead is thy son. And this said, No; but the dead is thy son, and the living is my son. Thus they spake before the king.

Neither shalt thou steal.

Shall the flocks and the herds be slain for them, to suffice them? or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to suffice them?

If there be yet many years behind, according unto them he shall give again the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.

And Judah said unto his brethren, What profit is it if we slay our brother, and conceal his blood?

Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.

And Balak said unto Balaam, Did I not earnestly send unto thee to call thee? wherefore camest thou not unto me? am I not able indeed to promote thee to honour?

And I gave thee thy master’s house, and thy master’s wives into thy bosom, and gave thee the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that had been too little, I would moreover have given unto thee such and such things.

The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that saith not, It is enough.

For in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you for a sin.

And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint:

Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob him: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.

Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names.

And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now shall the kingdom return to the house of David:

And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.

Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmeelites, and let not our hand be upon him; for he is our brother and our flesh. And his brethren were content.

We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:

Many will intreat the favour of the prince: and every man is a friend to him that giveth gifts.

Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.

And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself.

As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.

There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.

The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.

Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!

And he heard the words of Laban’s sons, saying, Jacob hath taken away all that was our father’s; and of that which was our father’s hath he gotten all this glory.

And it came to pass, that there went out some of the people on the seventh day for to gather, and they found none.

And the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand; and they came unto Balaam, and spake unto him the words of Balak.

Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.

Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, Naboth is stoned, and is dead.

And he also had made savoury meat, and brought it unto his father, and said unto his father, Let my father arise, and eat of his son’s venison, that thy soul may bless me.

And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.

The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough:

Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the best gold.

He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.

The righteous eateth to the satisfying of his soul: but the belly of the wicked shall want.

For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meat;

They did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles, old, and rent, and bound up;

And Hezekiah was glad of them, and shewed them the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of his armour, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah shewed them not.

Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.

And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.

Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:

And ye, in any wise keep yourselves from the accursed thing, lest ye make yourselves accursed, when ye take of the accursed thing, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it.

He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.

If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:

They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour’s wife.

Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.

And he called the name of that place Kibroth–hattaavah: because there they buried the people that lusted.

Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

The prince that wanteth understanding is also a great oppressor: but he that hateth covetousness shall prolong his days.

And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods.

And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had: and they brought them unto the valley of Achor.

Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.

And when he had brought him down, behold, they were spread abroad upon all the earth, eating and drinking, and dancing, because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.

But the fig tree said unto them, Should I forsake my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to be promoted over the trees?

But if he will at all redeem it, then he shall add a fifth part thereof unto thy estimation.

Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry unto the Lord against thee, and it be sin unto thee.

And Balak said unto Balaam, Come, I pray thee, I will bring thee unto another place; peradventure it will please God that thou mayest curse me them from thence.

Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.

And all the people brake off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron.

I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.

And Jezebel his wife said unto him, Dost thou now govern the kingdom of Israel? arise, and eat bread, and let thine heart be merry: I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.

They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths,

For I will promote thee unto very great honour, and I will do whatsoever thou sayest unto me: come therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people.

Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.

Also before they burnt the fat, the priest’s servant came, and said to the man that sacrificed, Give flesh to roast for the priest; for he will not have sodden flesh of thee, but raw.

It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.

Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to morrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant.

The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,

Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,

And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The king desireth not any dowry, but an hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king’s enemies. But Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.

He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.

An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.

Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.

Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.

Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.

They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.

And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink.

And it came to pass on the morrow, that Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into the high places of Baal, that thence he might see the utmost part of the people.

The rich man’s wealth is his strong city, and as an high wall in his own conceit.

So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,

And the man of God said unto the king, If thou wilt give me half thine house, I will not go in with thee, neither will I eat bread nor drink water in this place:

The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment.

For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.

He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.

And Satan answered the Lord, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.

And he brought the present unto Eglon king of Moab: and Eglon was a very fat man.

The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds:

I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.

A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked.

So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave:

A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things.

And it came to pass, when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, that Ahab rose up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it.

(For the men of war had taken spoil, every man for himself.)