Bible Verses About Gambling Addictions
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for gambling addictions, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 2,466 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 Gambling Addictions
Hebrews 13:5221 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 13:11205 votes
Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.
1 Timothy 6:10192 votes
For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
1 Corinthians 6:12163 votes
All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.
Matthew 6:24148 votes
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Proverbs 15:27133 votes
He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live.
Ecclesiastes 5:10130 votes
He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
Luke 12:15129 votes
And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.
Proverbs 23:4-5125 votes
Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.
1 Timothy 6:9121 votes
But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
Ephesians 4:28119 votes
Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
Proverbs 28:2277 votes
He that hasteth to be rich hath an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him.
Proverbs 21:560 votes
The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want.
1 Timothy 6:9-1059 votes
But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
Proverbs 22:26-2753 votes
Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.
Proverbs 28:2048 votes
A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.
2 Thessalonians 3:10-1244 votes
For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.
Exodus 20:1743 votes
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.
1 Timothy 5:839 votes
But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
Matthew 25:14-3036 votes
For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods.
Ephesians 5:534 votes
For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
1 Timothy 6:17-1932 votes
Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;
Proverbs 10:426 votes
He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.
Colossians 3:526 votes
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
Proverbs 28:1924 votes
He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough.
What does the Bible say about gambling addictions?
Readers most often cite Hebrews 13:5 on the subject of gambling addictions. Across 2,466 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Proverbs 13:11, 1 Timothy 6:10, 1 Corinthians 6:12. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.