Job 31:24

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

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

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.

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.”

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.

For when I have brought them into the land which I swore to their fathers, flowing with milk and honey, and they have eaten and filled themselves, and grown fat, then they will turn to other gods, and serve them, and despise me, and break my covenant.

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

The rich man’s wealth is his strong city, like an unscalable wall in his own imagination.

For he will be as a tree planted by the waters, who spreads out its roots by the river, and will not fear when heat comes, but its leaf will be green, and will not be concerned in the year of drought. It won’t cease from yielding fruit.

and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

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 all, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.

For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.

For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,

Thus God has taken away your father’s livestock, and given them to me.

“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.”

They pour out arrogant words. All the evildoers boast.

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

by your great wisdom and by your trading you have increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches—”

According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted. Therefore they have forgotten me.

If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.

So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.”

Also, do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

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

For we brought nothing into the world, and we certainly can’t carry anything out.

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

lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built fine houses and lived in them;

But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he abandoned God who made him, and rejected the Rock of his salvation.

He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that produces its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.

Behold, these are the wicked. Being always at ease, they increase in riches.

who satisfies your desire with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

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

All the relatives of the poor shun him: how much more do his friends avoid him! He pursues them with pleas, but they are gone.

There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.

Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man’s neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

As he came out of his mother’s womb, naked shall he go again as he came, and shall take nothing for his labor, which he may carry away in his hand.

For you have trusted in your wickedness. You have said, ‘No one sees me.’ Your wisdom and your knowledge has perverted you. You have said in your heart, ‘I am, and there is no one else besides me.’

Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed. They couldn’t blush. Therefore they will fall among those who fall. In the time of their visitation they will be cast down, says Yahweh.

I spoke to you in your prosperity; but you said, ‘I will not listen.’ This has been your way from your youth, that you didn’t obey my voice.

Why do you boast in the valleys, your flowing valley, backsliding daughter? You trusted in her treasures, saying, ‘Who will come to me?’

Ephraim said, “Surely I have become rich, I have found myself wealth. In all my wealth they won’t find in me any iniquity that is sin.”

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.”

For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?

The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus answered again, “Children, how hard it is for those who trust in riches to enter into God’s Kingdom!

True; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by your faith. Don’t be conceited, but fear;

that again when I come my God would humble me before you, and I would mourn for many of those who have sinned before now, and not repented of the uncleanness, sexual immorality, and lustfulness which they committed.

Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

They, having become callous, gave themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.

So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

Pharaoh said, “Who is Yahweh, that I should listen to his voice to let Israel go? I don’t know Yahweh, and moreover I will not let Israel go.”

“You shall not misuse the name of Yahweh your God, for Yahweh will not hold him guiltless who misuses his name.

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.

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.”

Joshua said to all the people, “Behold, this stone shall be a witness against us, for it has heard all Yahweh’s words which he spoke to us. It shall be therefore a witness against you, lest you deny your God.”

He lies down rich, but he will not do so again. He opens his eyes, and he is not.

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

Those who trust in their wealth, and boast in the multitude of their riches—

“Behold, this is the man who didn’t make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.”

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

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

Therefore the Holy One of Israel says, “Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely on it,

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.

Generation, consider Yahweh’s word. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? Or a land of thick darkness? Why do my people say, ‘We have broken loose. We will come to you no more?’

I tell you, make for yourselves friends by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when you fail, they may receive you into the eternal tents.

Yet he didn’t leave himself without witness, in that he did good and gave you rains from the sky and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.”

“Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods,” but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we have set our trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.

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

But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

Jacob heard Laban’s sons’ words, saying, “Jacob has taken away all that was our father’s. He has obtained all this wealth from that which was our father’s.”

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

for when he dies he will carry nothing away. His glory won’t descend after him.

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

The rich man’s wealth is his strong city. The destruction of the poor is their poverty.

He who trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous shall flourish as the green leaf.

lest I be full, deny you, and say, ‘Who is Yahweh?’ or lest I be poor, and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God.

“Don’t lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;

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.”

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

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.

Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be arrogant, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;