What the Bible says about: Greed
| Proverbs 27:20 |
Hell and destruction are |
| Ecclesiastes 5:10-16 | He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity. |
| When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes? | |
| The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep. | |
| There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt. | |
| But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand. | |
| As he came forth of his mother's womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand. | |
| And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind? | |
| Jeremiah 22:14-17 |
That saith, I will build me a wide house and |
| Shalt thou reign, because thou closest thyself in cedar? did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and then it was well with him? | |
| He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? saith the LORD. | |
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But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for |
| Proverbs 27:20 |
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Hell and destruction are |
| Ecclesiastes 5:10-16 |
| He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity. |
| When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes? |
| The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep. |
| There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt. |
| But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand. |
| As he came forth of his mother's womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand. |
| And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind? |
| Jeremiah 22:14-17 |
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That saith, I will build me a wide house and |
| Shalt thou reign, because thou closest thyself in cedar? did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and then it was well with him? |
| He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? saith the LORD. |
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But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for |