Bible Verses About Covetousness

'Eli's sons were scoundrels who had no regard for ADONAI.

The rule these cohanim followed in dealing with the people was that when anyone offered a sacrifice, the cohen's servant would come, while the meat was stewing, with a three-pronged fork in his hand.

He would stick it in the pan, kettle, caldron or pot; and the cohen would take for himself whatever the fork brought up. This is how they dealt with all the people of Isra'el who came there to Shiloh.

Ach'av spoke to Navot and said, "Give me your vineyard, so that I can have it as my vegetable garden, because it's close to my palace. In exchange I will give you a better vineyard; or, if you prefer, I will give you its monetary value."

But Navot said to Ach'av, "ADONAI forbid that I should give you my ancestral heritage!"

Ach'av went home resentful and depressed at what Navot the Yizre'eli had said to him, since he had said, "I won't give you my ancestral heritage." He lay down on his bed, turned his face away and refused to eat.

when Geichazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said to himself, "Here, my master has made it easy on this Arami Na'aman by not accepting from him what he brought. As ADONAI lives, I'll run after him and get at least something from him."

So Geichazi hurried off after Na'aman. When Na'aman saw someone running after him, he got down from his chariot to meet him and asked, "Is everything all right?"

"Yes," he replied. "My master sent me with this message: 'Two young men have just now come to me, guild prophets from the hills of Efrayim. Would you be kind enough to give them a talent of silver [sixty-six pounds] and two changes of clothes?"

"By all means, take two talents!" said Na'aman, pressing him. He tied up the two talents of silver in two bags and gave them, with the two changes of clothes, to two of his servants, who carried them ahead of Geichazi.

On reaching the hill, he took the bags from them and put them away in the house. Then he let the men go, and they left.

He went in and stood before his master. Elisha asked, "Where have you been, Geichazi?" "Your servant hasn't gone anywhere," he said.

"If I made gold my hope, if I said to fine gold, 'You are my security,'

if I took joy in my great wealth, in my having acquired so much;

A lazy man's craving will kill him, because his hands refuse to work -

he covets greedily all day long; but a righteous person gives without holding back.

Don't exhaust yourself in pursuit of wealth; be smart enough to desist

If you make your eyes rush at it, it's no longer there! For wealth will surely grow wings, like an eagle flying off to the sky.

keep falsehood and futility far from me, and give me neither poverty nor wealth. Yes, provide just the food I need today;

for if I have too much, I might deny you and say, "Who is ADONAI?"And if I am poor, I might steal and thus profane the name of my God.

Pointless! Pointless! - says Kohelet -Utterly meaningless! Nothing matters!

What does a person gain from all his labor at which he toils under the sun?

Generations come, generations go, but the earth remains forever.

The sun rises, the sun sets; then it speeds to its place and rises there.

The wind blows south, then it turns north; the wind blows all around and keeps returning to its rounds.