Bible Verses About Greed
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for greed, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 32,653 votes, led by 1 Timothy 6:10. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Greed
1 Timothy 6:101,593 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.
Luke 12:151,327 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 28:251,295 votes
He that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife: but he that putteth his trust in the Lord shall be made fat.
1 Timothy 6:91,276 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.
Hebrews 13:51,168 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 15:271,032 votes
He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live.
Matthew 6:24913 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 5:10805 votes
He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
Proverbs 11:24713 votes
There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
1 John 2:16683 votes
For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
1 Corinthians 6:9-11590 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,
Colossians 3:5568 votes
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
James 5:1-6526 votes
Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
Proverbs 20:21509 votes
An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.
James 4:3477 votes
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
Proverbs 13:11467 votes
Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.
Psalms 10:3406 votes
For the wicked boasteth of his heart’s desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the Lord abhorreth.
Mark 8:36379 votes
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
Jeremiah 6:13367 votes
For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
Matthew 6:33361 votes
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Proverbs 28:22346 votes
He that hasteth to be rich hath an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him.
2 Peter 2:3345 votes
And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
Ephesians 5:5338 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.
Ephesians 5:3321 votes
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
Proverbs 21:26316 votes
He coveteth greedily all the day long: but the righteous giveth and spareth not.
What does the Bible say about greed?
Readers most often cite 1 Timothy 6:10 on the subject of greed. Across 32,653 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Luke 12:15, Proverbs 28:25, 1 Timothy 6:9. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.