• 1 Timothy 6:6-10
  Now godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. And having food and clothing, with these we shall be content. But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
   
• James 4:1-4
  Where do wars and fights come from among you? Do they not come from your desires for pleasure that war in your members? You lust and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. Yet you do not have because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures. Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
   
• Proverbs 7:7-11
  And saw among the simple,
  I perceived among the youths,
  A young man devoid of understanding,
  Passing along the street near her corner;
  And he took the path to her house
  In the twilight, in the evening,
  In the black and dark night.
  And there a woman met him,
  With the attire of a harlot, and a crafty heart.
  She was loud and rebellious,
  Her feet would not stay at home.
  
   

Related Scriptures

• Isaiah 56:11
  Yes, they are greedy dogs
  Which never have enough.
  And they are shepherds
  Who cannot understand;
  They all look to their own way,
  Every one for his own gain,
  From his own territory.
  
   
• Matthew 6:31-33
  'Therefore do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.
   
• John 8:44
  You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.
   
• 2 Corinthians 11:3
  But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
   
• Philippians 4:8
  Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things.
   
• James 1:12
  Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.
   
• Matthew 6:25
  “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?
   
• John 17:17
  Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth.
   
• Philippians 4:12
  I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound. Everywhere and in all things I have learned both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
   
• 2 Timothy 3:1-5
  But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away!
   
• Exodus 20:16
  "You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
  
   
• Numbers 11:4-5
  Now the mixed multitude who were among them yielded to intense craving; so the children of Israel also wept again and said: "Who will give us meat to eat? We remember the fish which we ate freely in Egypt, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic;
   
• Psalm 49:17
  For when he dies he shall carry nothing away;
  His glory shall not descend after him.
  
   
• Proverbs 11:9
  The hypocrite with his mouth destroys his neighbor,
  But through knowledge the righteous will be delivered.
  
   
• Proverbs 28:16
  A ruler who lacks understanding is a great oppressor,
  But he who hates covetousness will prolong his days.
  
   
• Isaiah 2:6-8
  For You have forsaken Your people, the house of Jacob,
  Because they are filled with eastern ways;
  They are soothsayers like the Philistines,
  And they are pleased with the children of foreigners.
  Their land is also full of silver and gold,
  And there is no end to their treasures;
  Their land is also full of horses,
  And there is no end to their chariots.
  Their land is also full of idols;
  They worship the work of their own hands,
  That which their own fingers have made.
  
   
• Matthew 15:18-19
  But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile a man. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.
   
• 1 Corinthians 10:13
  No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.
   
• 2 Corinthians 10:5
  casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,
   
• Galatians 6:7-8
  Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life.
   
• Hebrews 13:5
  Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, "I will never leave you nor forsake you."
   
• James 1:16-17
  Do not be deceived, my beloved brethren. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.