Bible on Greed

Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.

And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.

So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire;

Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked.

For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.

I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.

And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.

How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing.

The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is abomination to fools to depart from evil.

The righteous eateth to the satisfying of his soul: but the belly of the wicked shall want.

There is treasure to be desired and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man spendeth it up.

He coveteth greedily all the day long: but the righteous giveth and spareth not.

Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.

Lest the LORD see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.

Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.

He that hasteth to be rich hath an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him.

He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack: but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse.

All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.

And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken.

Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off.

Seeing many things, but thou observest not; opening the ears, but he heareth not.

We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noon day as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.

Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.

As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us.

For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.

Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he?

And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.

And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire.

And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire:

And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

Ye are they which have continued with me in my temptations.

For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway.

But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the LORD.

While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:

And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.

Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account.

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.

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.

But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.

Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.

But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.