Proverbs 1:19

Advice To The Young

¹⁸ And they are secretly waiting for their blood and making ready destruction for themselves. ¹⁹ Such is the fate of everyone who goes in search of profit; it takes away the life of its owners. ²⁰ Wisdom is crying out in the street; her voice is loud in the open places;

Greedy for Gain

Proverbs 15:27

He whose desires are fixed on profit is a cause of trouble to his family; but he who has no desire for offerings will have life.

2 Samuel 18:11-13

And Joab said to the man who had given him the news, If you saw this, why did you not put your sword through him, and I would have given you ten bits of silver and a band for your robe?

2 Kings 5:20-27

But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha, the man of God, said, Now my master has taken nothing from Naaman, this Aramaean, of what he would have given him: by the living Lord, I will go after him and get something from him.

Job 31:39

If I have taken its produce without payment, causing the death of its owners;

Proverbs 23:3-4

Have no desire for his delicate food, for it is the bread of deceit.

Ecclesiastes 5:13

There is a great evil which I have seen under the sun--wealth kept by the owner to be his downfall.

Jeremiah 22:17-19

But your eyes and your heart are fixed only on profit for yourself, on causing the death of him who has done no wrong, and on violent and cruel acts.

Micah 2:1-3

A curse on the designers of evil, working on their beds! in the morning light they do it, because it is in their power.

Micah 3:10-12

They are building up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with evil-doing.

Habakkuk 2:9

A curse on him who gets evil profits for his family, so that he may put his resting-place on high and be safe from the hand of the wrongdoer!

Acts 8:19-20

Give me this power, so that when I put my hands on anyone he may get the Holy Spirit.

1 Timothy 3:3

Not quickly moved to wrath or blows, but gentle; no fighter, no lover of money;

1 Timothy 6:9-10

But those who have a desire for wealth are falling into danger, and are taken as in a net by a number of foolish and damaging desires, through which men are overtaken by death and destruction.

James 5:1-4

Come now, you men of wealth, give yourselves to weeping and crying because of the bitter troubles which are coming to you.

2 Peter 2:3

And in their desire for profit they will come to you with words of deceit, like traders doing business in souls: whose punishment has been ready for a long time and their destruction is watching for them.

2 Peter 2:14-16

Having eyes full of evil desire, never having enough of sin; turning feeble souls out of the true way; they are children of cursing, whose hearts are well used to bitter envy;