Bible Verses About Lottery
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for lottery, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,318 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 Lottery
Proverbs 13:11191 votes
Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.
Hebrews 13:5140 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 6:10101 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 John 2:15-1774 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.
1 Corinthians 6:1270 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.
Luke 12:1568 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 1:1962 votes
So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
Matthew 6:2453 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.
Acts 20:3552 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 John 2:1551 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.
Colossians 3:546 votes
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
Acts 20:33-3540 votes
I have coveted no man’s silver, or gold, or apparel.
Mark 11:23-2431 votes
For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.
Ephesians 4:2830 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.
Psalms 23:1-629 votes
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
Luke 12:47-4827 votes
And that servant, which knew his lord’s will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.
Proverbs 1:1326 votes
We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
Proverbs 28:2019 votes
A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.
Isaiah 65:11-1219 votes
But ye are they that forsake the Lord, that forget my holy mountain, that prepare a table for that troop, and that furnish the drink offering unto that number.
Deuteronomy 1:1117 votes
(The Lord God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you!)
Deuteronomy 8:1816 votes
But thou shalt remember the Lord thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day.
1 Corinthians 6:916 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 23:414 votes
Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.
Ecclesiastes 5:1014 votes
He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
Mark 8:3614 votes
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
What does the Bible say about lottery?
Readers most often cite Proverbs 13:11 on the subject of lottery. Across 1,318 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Hebrews 13:5, 1 Timothy 6:10, 1 John 2:15-17. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.