Quotes about Greed
They feed on the sins of My people and set their hearts on iniquity.
— Hosea 4:8
A merchant loves to defraud with dishonest scales in his hands.
— Hosea 12:7
Hear this word, you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria, you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to your husbands, “Bring us more to drink.”
— Amos 4:1
Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.
— Amos 5:11
Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,
— Amos 8:4
They covet fields and seize them; they take away houses. They deprive a man of his home, a fellow man of his inheritance.
— Micah 2:2
Both hands are skilled at evil; the prince and the judge demand a bribe. When the powerful utters his evil desire, they all conspire together.
— Micah 7:3
Therefore he sacrifices to his dragnet and burns incense to his fishing net, for by these things his portion is sumptuous and his food is rich.
— Habakkuk 1:16
Will not all of these take up a taunt against him, speaking with mockery and derision: ‘Woe to him who amasses what is not his and makes himself rich with many loans! How long will this go on?’
— Habakkuk 2:6
Woe to him who builds his house by unjust gain, to place his nest on high and escape the hand of disaster!
— Habakkuk 2:9
But when the tenants saw the son, they said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and take his inheritance.’
— Matthew 21:38
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.
— Matthew 23:25