Proverbs 1:19

Advice To The Young

¹⁸ but these men lie in wait for their own blood, they ambush their own lives! ¹⁹ Such are the ways of all who gain profit unjustly; it takes away the life of those who obtain it! ²⁰ Wisdom calls out in the street, she shouts loudly in the plazas;

Greedy for Gain

Proverbs 15:27

The one who is greedy for gain troubles his household, but whoever hates bribes will live.

2 Samuel 18:11-13

Joab replied to the man who was telling him this, "What! You saw this? Why didn't you strike him down right on the spot? I would have given you ten pieces of silver and a commemorative belt!"

2 Kings 5:20-27

Gehazi, the prophet Elisha's servant, thought, "Look, my master did not accept what this Syrian Naaman offered him. As certainly as the Lord lives, I will run after him and accept something from him."

Job 31:39

if I have eaten its produce without paying, or caused the death of its owners,

Proverbs 23:3-4

Do not crave that ruler's delicacies, for that food is deceptive.

Ecclesiastes 5:13

Here is a misfortune on earth that I have seen: Wealth hoarded by its owner to his own misery.

Jeremiah 22:17-19

But you are always thinking and looking for ways to increase your wealth by dishonest means. Your eyes and your heart are set on killing some innocent person and committing fraud and oppression.

Micah 2:1-3

Those who devise sinful plans are as good as dead, those who dream about doing evil as they lie in bed. As soon as morning dawns they carry out their plans, because they have the power to do so.

Micah 3:10-12

You build Zion through bloody crimes, Jerusalem through unjust violence.

Habakkuk 2:9

The one who builds his house by unjust gain is as good as dead. He does this so he can build his nest way up high and escape the clutches of disaster.

Acts 8:19-20

saying, "Give me this power too, so that everyone I place my hands on may receive the Holy Spirit."

1 Timothy 3:3

not a drunkard, not violent, but gentle, not contentious, free from the love of money.

1 Timothy 6:9-10

Those who long to be rich, however, stumble into temptation and a trap and many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.

James 5:1-4

Come now, you rich! Weep and cry aloud over the miseries that are coming on you.

2 Peter 2:3

And in their greed they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation pronounced long ago is not sitting idly by; their destruction is not asleep.

2 Peter 2:14-16

Their eyes, full of adultery, never stop sinning; they entice unstable people. They have trained their hearts for greed, these cursed children!