Bible Verses About Covetousness

Furthermore, I tell you that it is easier for a camel to pass through a needle's eye than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God."

Yeshua again used parables in speaking to them:

"The Kingdom of Heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding feast for his son,

but when he sent his slaves to summon the invited guests to the wedding, they refused to come.

So he sent some more slaves, instructing them to tell the guests, `Look, I've prepared my banquet, I've slaughtered my bulls and my fattened cattle, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding!'

But they weren't interested and went off, one to his farm, another to his business;

and the rest grabbed his slaves, mistreated them and killed them.

The king was furious and sent his soldiers, who killed those murderers and burned down their city.

"Then he said to his slaves, `Well, the wedding feast is ready; but the ones who were invited didn't deserve it.

So go out to the street-corners and invite to the banquet as many as you find.'

The slaves went out into the streets, gathered all the people they could find, the bad along with the good; and the wedding hall was filled with guests.

"Now when the king came in to look at the guests, he saw there a man who wasn't dressed for a wedding; so he asked him,

`Friend, how did you get in here without wedding clothes?' The man was speechless.

Then the king said to the servants, `Bind him hand and foot, and throw him outside in the dark!' In that place people will wail and grind their teeth,

for many are invited, but few are chosen."

For from within, out of a person's heart, come forth wicked thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,

greed, malice, deceit, indecency, envy, slander, arrogance, foolishness...

All these wicked things come from within, and they make a person unclean."

Then to the people he said, “Be careful to guard against all forms of greed, because even if someone is rich, his life does not consist in what he owns.”

And he gave them this illustration: “There was a man whose land was very productive.

He debated with himself, ‘What should I do? I haven’t enough room for all my crops.’

Then he said, ‘This is what I will do: I’ll tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and I’ll store all my wheat and other goods there.

Then I’ll say to myself, “You’re a lucky man! You have a big supply of goods laid up that will last many years. Start taking it easy! Eat! Drink! Enjoy yourself!”’

But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night you will die! And the things you prepared — whose will they be?’

That’s how it is with anyone who stores up wealth for himself without being rich toward God.”