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.

Cross-references · 31

• Heb 13:5Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”
• 1 Tim 6:6–10But godliness with contentment is great gain.
• Ps 119:36–37Turn my heart toward your statutes, not toward selfish gain.
• Prov 15:16Better is little, with the fear of Yahweh, than great treasure with trouble.
• Prov 16:16How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! Yes, to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.
• Matt 6:25–26Therefore 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?
• Eccl 5:10–16He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he who loves abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.
• Luke 16:14The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.
• Luke 8:14That which fell among the thorns, these are those who have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked with cares, riches, and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity.
• 2 Tim 3:2For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
• Col 3:5Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
• Ps 62:10Don’t trust in oppression. Don’t become vain in robbery. If riches increase, don’t set your heart on them.
• Ps 37:16Better is a little that the righteous has, than the abundance of many wicked.
• Job 2:4Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.
• 1 Cor 5:10–11yet not at all meaning with the sexual sinners of this world, or with the covetous and extortionists, or with idolaters; for then you would have to leave the world.
• 2 Pet 2:3In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.
• Hab 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!
• Mark 7:22covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.
• Prov 23:4–5Don’t weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.
• Ps 10:3For the wicked boasts of his heart’s cravings. He blesses the greedy, and condemns Yahweh.
• Eccl 4:6–8Better is a handful, with quietness, than two handfuls with labor and chasing after wind.
• Job 31:24–25“If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, ‘You are my confidence;’
• Eph 5:3–5But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;
• 1 Cor 6:10nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortionists, will inherit God’s Kingdom.
• Jer 6:13“For from their least even to their greatest, everyone is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even to the priest, everyone deals falsely.
• Josh 7:21When I saw among the plunder a beautiful Babylonian robe, two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, then I coveted them and took them. Behold, they are hidden in the ground in the middle of my tent, with the silver under it.”
• Luke 21:34“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.
• Prov 28:16A tyrannical ruler lacks judgment. One who hates ill-gotten gain will have long days.
• Jer 22:17–18But your eyes and your heart are not but for your covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, for oppression, and for doing violence.”
• 2 Pet 2:14having eyes full of adultery, and who can’t cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;
• Mic 2:2They covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

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