Bible Verses About Covetousness: General references

If I made gold mine hope, or haue sayd to the wedge of golde, Thou art my confidence,

If I reioyced because my substance was great, or because mine hand had gotten much,

The desire of the slouthfull slayeth him: for his hands refuse to worke.

He coueteth euermore greedily, but the righteous giueth and spareth not.

Trauaile not too much to be rich: but cease from thy wisdome.

Wilt thou cast thine eyes vpon it, which is nothing? for riches taketh her to her wings, as an eagle, and flyeth into the heauen.

Remooue farre from me vanitie and lyes: giue me not pouertie, nor riches: feede me with foode conuenient for me,

Least I be full, and denie thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or least I be poore and steale, and take the Name of my God in vaine.

Vanitie of vanities, sayth the Preacher: vanitie of vanities, all is vanitie.

What remaineth vnto man in all his trauaile, which he suffereth vnder ye sunne?

One generation passeth, and another generation succeedeth: but the earth remaineth for euer.

The sunne riseth, and ye sunne goeth downe, and draweth to his place, where he riseth.

The winde goeth toward the South, and compasseth towarde the North: the winde goeth rounde about, and returneth by his circuites.

All the riuers goe into the sea, yet the sea is not full: for the riuers goe vnto ye place, whence they returne, and goe.

All things are full of labour: man cannot vtter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the eare filled with hearing.

When goods increase, they are increased that eate them: and what good commeth to the owners thereof, but the beholding thereof with their eyes?

The sleepe of him that traueileth, is sweete, whether he eate litle or much: but the sacietie of the riche will not suffer him to sleepe.

In thee haue they taken giftes to shed blood: thou hast taken vsurie and the encrease, and thou hast defrauded thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord God.

Beholde, therefore I haue smitten mine hands vpon thy couetousnesse, that thou hast vsed, and vpon the blood, which hath bene in the middes of thee.

They take vp all with the angle: they catch it in their net, and gather it in their yarne, whereof they reioyce and are glad.

Therefore they sacrifice vnto their net, and burne incense vnto their yarne, because by them their portion is fat and their meat plenteous.

Yea, in deede the proude man is as hee that transgresseth by wine: therefore shall he not endure, because he hath enlarged his desire as the hell, and is as death, and can not be satisfied, but gathereth vnto him all nations, and heapeth vnto him all people.

Shall not all these take vp a parable against him, and a tanting prouerbe against him, and say, Ho, he that increaseth that which is not his? howe long? and hee that ladeth himselfe with thicke clay?

Shall they not rise vp suddenly, that shall bite thee? and awake, that shall stirre thee? and thou shalt be their praye?

Because thou hast spoyled many nations, all the remnant of the people shall spoyle thee, because of mens blood, and for the wrong done in the land, in the citie, and vnto all that dwell therein.