Genesis 29:26

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.

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

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.

This was the lot for the tribe of Manasseh, for he was the firstborn of Joseph. As for Machir the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, because he was a man of war, therefore he had Gilead and Bashan.

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

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

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.

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

Lot said to them, “Oh, not so, my lord.

Rebekah took the good clothes of Esau, her elder son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob, her younger son.

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?”

They sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth, and the men marveled with one another.

Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it on Ephraim’s head, who was the younger, and his left hand on Manasseh’s head, guiding his hands knowingly, for Manasseh was the firstborn.

Joseph said to his father, “Not so, my father, for this is the firstborn. Put your right hand on his head.”

“Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength; excelling in dignity, and excelling in power.

Not so! Go now you who are men, and serve Yahweh; for that is what you desire!” Then they were driven out from Pharaoh’s presence.

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 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.

Shimei arose, saddled his donkey, and went to Gath to Achish, to seek his slaves; and Shimei went, and brought his slaves from Gath.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes and follows after rewards. They don’t defend the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

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.

“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.

“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.

But the wise answered, saying, ‘What if there isn’t enough for us and you? You go rather to those who sell, and buy for yourselves.’

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

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

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.

But Peter said, “Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean.”

But I said, ‘Not so, Lord, for nothing unholy or unclean has ever entered into my mouth.’

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.

But when her masters saw that the hope of their gain was gone, they seized Paul and Silas, and dragged them into the marketplace before the rulers.

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.

As I urged you when I was going into Macedonia, stay at Ephesus that you might command certain men not to teach a different doctrine,

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.

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

men who have erred concerning the truth, saying that the resurrection is already past, and overthrowing the faith of some.

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.

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.

Laban said to him, “Surely you are my bone and my flesh.” Jacob stayed with him for a month.

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.