7 Bible Verses about The Misery Of Greed

So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain;
Greed takes away the lives of its possessors.

He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves abundance with its gain. This too is vanity (emptiness).

“Woe (judgment is coming) to him who obtains wicked gain for his house [and thinks by so doing]
To set his nest on high,
That he may be rescued from the hand of evil.

“You have devised a shameful thing for your house
By cutting off and putting an end to many peoples;
So you are sinning against your own life and forfeiting it.

And throwing the pieces of silver into the temple sanctuary, he left; and went away and hanged himself.

But those who [are not financially ethical and] crave to get rich [with a compulsive, greedy longing for wealth] fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction [leading to personal misery].

Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will consume your flesh like fire. You have stored up your treasure in the last days [when it will do you no good].