Quotes about Greed
Is it not enough for you to feed on the good pasture? Must you also trample the rest of the pasture with your feet? Is it not enough for you to drink the clear waters? Must you also muddy the rest with your feet?
- Ezekiel 34:18
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