TOPICAL BIBLE
Covetousness
324 references in this topic.
Habakkuk 2:9Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!Haggai 1:4“Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies waste?Haggai 1:5Now therefore this is what Yahweh of Armies says: Consider your ways.Haggai 1:6You have sown much, and bring in little. You eat, but you don’t have enough. You drink, but you aren’t filled with drink. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm, and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes in it.”Haggai 1:7This is what Yahweh of Armies says: “Consider your ways.Haggai 1:8Go up to the mountain, bring wood, and build the house. I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified,” says Yahweh.Haggai 1:9“You looked for much, and, behold, it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?” says Yahweh of Armies, “Because of my house that lies waste, while each of you is busy with his own house.Malachi 1:10“Oh that there were one among you who would shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you,” says Yahweh of Armies, “neither will I accept an offering at your hand.Matthew 6:19“Don’t lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;Matthew 6:20but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, and where thieves don’t break through and steal;Matthew 6:21for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.Matthew 6:24“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.Matthew 6:25Therefore, I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing?Matthew 6:31“Therefore don’t be anxious, saying, ‘What will we eat?’, ‘What will we drink?’ or, ‘With what will we be clothed?’Matthew 6:32For the Gentiles seek after all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.Matthew 6:33But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.Matthew 13:22What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.Matthew 16:26For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?Matthew 19:16Behold, one came to him and said, “Good teacher, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?”Matthew 19:17He said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good but one, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.”Matthew 19:18He said to him, “Which ones?” Jesus said, “‘You shall not murder.’ ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ ‘You shall not steal.’ ‘You shall not offer false testimony.’Matthew 19:19‘Honor your father and mother.’ And, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’”Matthew 19:20The young man said to him, “All these things I have observed from my youth. What do I still lack?”Matthew 19:21Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”Matthew 19:22But when the young man heard the saying, he went away sad, for he was one who had great possessions.Matthew 19:23Jesus said to his disciples, “Most certainly I say to you, a rich man will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven with difficulty.Matthew 19:24Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye, than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God.”Matthew 21:12Jesus entered into the temple of God, and drove out all of those who sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the money changers’ tables and the seats of those who sold the doves.Matthew 21:13He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a den of robbers!”Matthew 22:1Jesus answered and spoke again in parables to them, saying,Matthew 22:2“The Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who made a marriage feast for his son,Matthew 22:3and sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the marriage feast, but they would not come.Matthew 22:4Again he sent out other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who are invited, “Behold, I have prepared my dinner. My cattle and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready. Come to the marriage feast!”’Matthew 22:5But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his own farm, another to his merchandise,Matthew 22:6and the rest grabbed his servants, and treated them shamefully, and killed them.Matthew 22:7When the king heard that, he was angry, and sent his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.Matthew 22:8“Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding is ready, but those who were invited weren’t worthy.Matthew 22:9Go therefore to the intersections of the highways, and as many as you may find, invite to the marriage feast.’Matthew 22:10Those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together as many as they found, both bad and good. The wedding was filled with guests.Matthew 22:11But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man who didn’t have on wedding clothing,Matthew 22:12and he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you come in here not wearing wedding clothing?’ He was speechless.Matthew 22:13Then the king said to the servants, ‘Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and throw him into the outer darkness; there is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.’Matthew 22:14For many are called, but few chosen.”Matthew 26:15and said, “What are you willing to give me, that I should deliver him to you?” They weighed out for him thirty pieces of silver.Matthew 26:16From that time he sought opportunity to betray him.Mark 4:19and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.Mark 7:21For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,Mark 7:22covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.Mark 7:23All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.”Mark 14:10Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve, went away to the chief priests, that he might deliver him to them.Mark 14:11They, when they heard it, were glad, and promised to give him money. He sought how he might conveniently deliver him.Luke 7:14He came near and touched the coffin, and the bearers stood still. He said, “Young man, I tell you, arise!”Luke 12:15He said to them, “Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.”Luke 12:16He spoke a parable to them, saying, “The ground of a certain rich man brought forth abundantly.Luke 12:17He reasoned within himself, saying, ‘What will I do, because I don’t have room to store my crops?’Luke 12:18He said, ‘This is what I will do. I will pull down my barns, and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.Luke 12:19I will tell my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, be merry.”’Luke 12:20“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’Luke 12:21So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.”Luke 12:33Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don’t grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn’t fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys.