Proverbs 1:19

Advice To The Young

¹⁸ And these lay wait for their own blood; they lurk secretly for their own lives. ¹⁹ So are the paths of every one that is greedy of gain: it taketh away the life of its possessors. ²⁰ Wisdom crieth without; she raiseth her voice in the broadways;

Greedy for Gain

Proverbs 15:27

He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live.

2 Samuel 18:11-13

And Joab said to the man that told him, And behold, thou sawest him, and why didst thou not smite him there to the ground? and I would have given thee ten silver pieces and a girdle.

2 Kings 5:20-27

And Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my master has spared Naaman, this Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought; but as Jehovah liveth, I will run after him and take somewhat of him.

Job 31:39

If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, and have tormented to death the souls of its owners:

Proverbs 23:3-4

Be not desirous of his dainties; for they are deceitful food.

Ecclesiastes 5:13

There is a grievous evil that I have seen under the sun: riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt;

Jeremiah 22:17-19

But thine eyes and thy heart are only on thine extortion, and on the blood of the innocent, to shed it, and on oppression and on violence, to do it.

Micah 2:1-3

Woe to them that devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! When the morning is light they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.

Micah 3:10-12

that build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with unrighteousness.

Habakkuk 2:9

Woe to him that getteth iniquitous gain to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the grasp of evil!

Acts 8:19-20

saying, Give to me also this power, in order that on whomsoever I may lay hands he may receive the Holy Spirit.

1 Timothy 3:3

not given to excesses from wine, not a striker, but mild, not addicted to contention, not fond of money,

1 Timothy 6:9-10

But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and many unwise and hurtful lusts, which plunge men into destruction and ruin.

James 5:1-4

Go to now, ye rich, weep, howling over your miseries that are coming upon you.

2 Peter 2:3

And through covetousness, with well-turned words, will they make merchandise of you: for whom judgment of old is not idle, and their destruction slumbers not.

2 Peter 2:14-16

having eyes full of adultery, and that cease not from sin, alluring unestablished souls; having a heart practised in covetousness, children of curse;