36 For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
24 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. You cannot serve God and mammon.
3 But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becomes saints;
4 Labor not to be rich: cease from your own wisdom.
15 And he said to them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man' life consists not in the abundance of the things which he possesses.
5 Mortify therefore your members which are on the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
36 Incline my heart to your testimonies, and not to covetousness.
26 He covets greedily all the day long: but the righteous gives and spares not.
6 For for this cause pay you tribute also: for they are God' ministers, attending continually on this very thing.
10 He that loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loves abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
9 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.
11 Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathers by labor shall increase.
15 As he came forth of his mother' womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labor, which he may carry away in his hand.
10 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.
19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust does corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust does corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: