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Isaías 56:11
They are dogs with mighty appetites; they never have enough. They are shepherds who lack understanding; they all turn to their own way, they seek their own gain. (niv)
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Jeremías 6:13
“ From the least to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; prophets and priests alike, all practice deceit. (niv)
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Efesios 5:3-5
But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God’s holy people.Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk or coarse joking, which are out of place, but rather thanksgiving.For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure or greedy person— such a person is an idolater— has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. (niv)
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Jeremías 2:30
“ In vain I punished your people; they did not respond to correction. Your sword has devoured your prophets like a ravenous lion. (niv)
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Jeremías 22:17
“ But your eyes and your heart are set only on dishonest gain, on shedding innocent blood and on oppression and extortion.” (niv)
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Jeremías 8:10
Therefore I will give their wives to other men and their fields to new owners. From the least to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; prophets and priests alike, all practice deceit. (niv)
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Lucas 12:15
Then he said to them,“ Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions.” (niv)
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Isaías 1:4
Woe to the sinful nation, a people whose guilt is great, a brood of evildoers, children given to corruption! They have forsaken the Lord; they have spurned the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on him. (niv)
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Lucas 15:14-16
After he had spent everything, there was a severe famine in that whole country, and he began to be in need.So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs.He longed to fill his stomach with the pods that the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything. (niv)
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Isaías 5:8-9
Woe to you who add house to house and join field to field till no space is left and you live alone in the land.The Lord Almighty has declared in my hearing:“ Surely the great houses will become desolate, the fine mansions left without occupants. (niv)
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Ezequiel 33:31
My people come to you, as they usually do, and sit before you to hear your words, but they do not put them into practice. Their mouths speak of love, but their hearts are greedy for unjust gain. (niv)
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Jeremías 5:3
Lord, do not your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain; you crushed them, but they refused correction. They made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent. (niv)
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Miqueas 2:2-3
They covet fields and seize them, and houses, and take them. They defraud people of their homes, they rob them of their inheritance.Therefore, the Lord says:“ I am planning disaster against this people, from which you cannot save yourselves. You will no longer walk proudly, for it will be a time of calamity. (niv)
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Isaías 8:17
I will wait for the Lord, who is hiding his face from the descendants of Jacob. I will put my trust in him. (niv)
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2 Pedro 2 3
In their greed these teachers will exploit you with fabricated stories. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping. (niv)
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1 Timoteo 6 9
Those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. (niv)
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Eclesiastés 6:9
Better what the eye sees than the roving of the appetite. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind. (niv)
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Isaías 9:13
But the people have not returned to him who struck them, nor have they sought the Lord Almighty. (niv)
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Colosenses 3:5
Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. (niv)
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2 Pedro 2 14
With eyes full of adultery, they never stop sinning; they seduce the unstable; they are experts in greed— an accursed brood! (niv)
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Isaías 45:15
Truly you are a God who has been hiding himself, the God and Savior of Israel. (niv)