Bible Verses About Being Greedy
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for being greedy, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,059 votes, led by Hebrews 13:5. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Being Greedy
Hebrews 13:5172 votes
Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
Proverbs 15:27140 votes
He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live.
1 John 2:15-17105 votes
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
2 Corinthians 9:790 votes
Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.
Acts 20:3577 votes
I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
Luke 12:3356 votes
Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.
1 Corinthians 5:1145 votes
But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
Luke 21:1-442 votes
And he looked up, and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury.
Proverbs 16:1635 votes
How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver!
1 Corinthians 6:9-1032 votes
Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
Matthew 6:31-3325 votes
Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
Haggai 2:822 votes
The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the Lord of hosts.
Luke 16:221 votes
And he called him, and said unto him, How is it that I hear this of thee? give an account of thy stewardship; for thou mayest be no longer steward.
Judges 19:1-3014 votes
And it came to pass in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the side of mount Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Beth–lehem–judah.
Haggai 1:614 votes
Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.
Matthew 7:1214 votes
Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
Matthew 22:34-4014 votes
But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together.
Isaiah 13:1212 votes
I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
Matthew 10:12-1512 votes
And when ye come into an house, salute it.
Luke 15:1312 votes
And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.
2 Peter 2:12-1812 votes
But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
Mark 8:3611 votes
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
1 Corinthians 12:12-2711 votes
For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.
Philippians 4:1211 votes
I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
Genesis 19:1-3810 votes
And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;
What does the Bible say about being greedy?
Readers most often cite Hebrews 13:5 on the subject of being greedy. Across 1,059 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Proverbs 15:27, 1 John 2:15-17, 2 Corinthians 9:7. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.