1 Kings 2:40

Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.

Turn my heart toward your statutes, not toward selfish gain.

“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.”

He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he who loves abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.

What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.

Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

“You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have sight and perverts the words of the righteous.

How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! Yes, to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.

Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money: yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, “Isn’t Yahweh among us? No disaster will come on us.”

You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality. You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.

He shall not multiply wives to himself, that his heart not turn away. He shall not greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.

Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, the silver, the robe, the wedge of gold, his sons, his daughters, his cattle, his donkeys, his sheep, his tent, and all that he had; and they brought them up to the valley of Achor.

Therefore the leprosy of Naaman will cling to you and to your offspring forever.” He went out from his presence a leper, as white as snow.

Many sorrows come to the wicked, but loving kindness shall surround him who trusts in Yahweh.

Don’t trust in oppression. Don’t become vain in robbery. If riches increase, don’t set your heart on them.

So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain. It takes away the life of its owners.

He who troubles his own house shall inherit the wind. The foolish shall be servant to the wise of heart.

Better is little, with the fear of Yahweh, than great treasure with trouble.

Yes, the dogs are greedy. They can never have enough. They are shepherds who can’t understand. They have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.

As the partridge that sits on eggs which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right. In the middle of his days, they will leave him. At his end, he will be a fool.

Others fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.

He warned them, saying, “Take heed: beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod.”

But his face fell at that saying, and he went away sorrowful, for he was one who had great possessions.

Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back,

Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you will serve with me for seven more years.”

Jacob’s sons came on the dead, and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister.

He turned to her by the way, and said, “Please come, let me come in to you,” for he didn’t know that she was his daughter-in-law. She said, “What will you give me, that you may come in to me?”

You shall not bring the hire of a prostitute, or the wages of a male prostitute, into the house of Yahweh your God for any vow; for both of these are an abomination to Yahweh your God.

When I saw among the plunder a beautiful Babylonian robe, two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, then I coveted them and took them. Behold, they are hidden in the ground in the middle of my tent, with the silver under it.”

When Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, “Come up this once, for he has told me all his heart.” Then the lords of the Philistines came up to her and brought the money in their hand.

Micah said to him, “Dwell with me, and be to me a father and a priest, and I will give you ten pieces of silver per year, a suit of clothing, and your food.” So the Levite went in.

His sons didn’t walk in his ways, but turned away after dishonest gain, took bribes, and perverted justice.

Ben Hadad listened to king Asa, and sent the captains of his armies against the cities of Israel; and they struck Ijon, Dan, Abel Maim, and all the storage cities of Naphtali.

Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.

“If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, ‘You are my confidence;’

For the wicked boasts of his heart’s cravings. He blesses the greedy and condemns Yahweh.

Better is a little that the righteous has, than the abundance of many wicked.

We’ll find all valuable wealth. We’ll fill our houses with plunder.

Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own schemes.

He who is truly righteous gets life. He who pursues evil gets death.

He who is greedy for gain troubles his own house, but he who hates bribes will live.

An inheritance quickly gained at the beginning, won’t be blessed in the end.

A tyrannical ruler lacks judgment. One who hates ill-gotten gain will have long days.

I was angry because of the iniquity of his covetousness and struck him. I hid myself and was angry; and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.

“For from their least even to their greatest, everyone is given to covetousness. From the prophet even to the priest, everyone deals falsely.

Yahweh says, “Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom. Don’t let the mighty man glory in his might. Don’t let the rich man glory in his riches.

You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to kill the souls who should not die, and to save the souls alive who should not live, by your lying to my people who listen to lies.’

People give gifts to all prostitutes; but you give your gifts to all your lovers, and bribe them, that they may come to you on every side for your prostitution.

In you have they taken bribes to shed blood. You have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me,” says the Lord Yahweh.

They covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!

“Oh that there were one among you who would shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you,” says Yahweh of Armies, “neither will I accept an offering at your hand.

“Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.

“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves.

Jesus said to them, “Take heed and beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.

So they took the money and did as they were told. This saying was spread abroad among the Jews, and continues until today.

covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.

They, when they heard it, were glad, and promised to give him money. He sought how he might conveniently deliver him.

That which fell among the thorns, these are those who have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked with cares, riches, and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity.

He said to them, “Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.”

The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.

But when he heard these things, he became very sad, for he was very rich.

“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.

and kept back part of the price, his wife also being aware of it, then brought a certain part and laid it at the apostles’ feet.

As we were going to prayer, a certain girl having a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much gain by fortune telling.

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn’t have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn’t have known coveting, unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”

nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortionists, will inherit God’s Kingdom.

But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;

Not that I seek for the gift, but I seek for the fruit that increases to your account.

Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;

But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation, a snare, and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

which some profess, and thus have wandered from the faith. Grace be with you. Amen.

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

for Demas left me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia; and Titus to Dalmatia.

whose mouths must be stopped: men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain’s sake.

Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us,

In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

Woe to them! For they went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in Korah’s rebellion.

and cinnamon, incense, perfume, frankincense, wine, olive oil, fine flour, wheat, sheep, horses, chariots, and people’s bodies and souls.