Bible Verses About Avarice: General references

And I have turned, and I see a vain thing under the sun:

There is one, and there is not a second; even son or brother he hath not, and there is no end to all his labour! His eye also is not satisfied with riches, and he saith not , `For whom am I labouring and bereaving my soul of good?' This also is vanity, it is a sad travail.

Whoso is loving silver is not satisfied with silver, nor he who is in love with stores with increase. Even this is vanity.

In the multiplying of good have its consumers been multiplied, and what benefit is to its possessor except the sight of his eyes?

it behoveth, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, of one wife a husband, vigilant, sober, decent, a friend of strangers, apt to teach,

not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre, but gentle, not contentious, not a lover of money,