Luke 12:15

Jesus warns everyone to guard against all covetousness, because life does not consist in the abundance of possessions. True life is found in God, not in things.

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• Heb 13:5Let 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 Tim 6:6–10But godliness with contentment is great gain.
• Ps 119:36–37Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness.
• Prov 15:16Better is little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble therewith.
• Prov 16:16How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver!
• Matt 6:25–26Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
• Eccl 5:10–16He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
• Luke 16:14And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.
• Luke 8:14And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection.
• 2 Tim 3:2For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
• Col 3:5Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
• Ps 62:10Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.
• Ps 37:16A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked.
• Job 2:4And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.
• 1 Cor 5:10–11Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.
• 2 Pet 2:3And 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.
• Hab 2:9Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!
• Mark 7:22Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
• Prov 23:4–5Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.
• Ps 10:3For the wicked boasteth of his heart’s desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.
• Eccl 4:6–8Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.
• Job 31:24–25If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;
• Eph 5:3–5But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
• 1 Cor 6:10Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
• Jer 6:13For 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.
• Josh 7:21When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.
• Luke 21:34And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
• Prov 28:16The prince that wanteth understanding is also a great oppressor: but he that hateth covetousness shall prolong his days.
• Jer 22:17–18But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.
• 2 Pet 2:14Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:
• Mic 2:2And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

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