Bible Verses About Gambling
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for gambling, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 11,333 votes, led by Proverbs 13:11. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Gambling
Proverbs 13:111,013 votes
Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.
Hebrews 13:5701 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.
1 Timothy 6:10672 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.
Matthew 6:24537 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.
Ecclesiastes 5:10530 votes
He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
1 Timothy 6:9-10495 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.
Luke 12:15391 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.
Ephesians 4:28326 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 28:22314 votes
He that hasteth to be rich hath an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him.
1 Corinthians 6:12303 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.
1 Timothy 6:9284 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 16:33231 votes
The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord.
Luke 16:13207 votes
No servant 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.
Exodus 20:17202 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.
Proverbs 15:27184 votes
He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live.
1 Timothy 6:17-19177 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;
Acts 20:35171 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.
1 Corinthians 6:9-10168 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,
Proverbs 28:20164 votes
A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.
Matthew 6:19-21164 votes
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
2 Thessalonians 3:10160 votes
For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.
Luke 12:33-34146 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.
Proverbs 23:4-5125 votes
Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.
Mark 8:36125 votes
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
Mark 7:20-23111 votes
And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.
What does the Bible say about gambling?
Readers most often cite Proverbs 13:11 on the subject of gambling. Across 11,333 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Hebrews 13:5, 1 Timothy 6:10, Matthew 6:24. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.