Quotes about Possessions
I expanded my pursuits. I built houses and planted vineyards for myself.
— Ecclesiastes 2:4
I acquired menservants and maidservants, and servants were born in my house. I also owned more herds and flocks than anyone in Jerusalem before me,
— Ecclesiastes 2:7
and I accumulated for myself silver and gold and the treasure of kings and provinces. I gathered to myself male and female singers, and the delights of the sons of men—many concubines.
— Ecclesiastes 2:8
I hated all for which I had toiled under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who comes after me.
— Ecclesiastes 2:18
When good things increase, so do those who consume them; what then is the profit to the owner, except to behold them with his eyes?
— Ecclesiastes 5:11
or wealth lost in a failed venture, so when that man has a son there is nothing to pass on.
— Ecclesiastes 5:14
Their land is full of silver and gold, with no limit to their treasures; their land is full of horses, with no limit to their chariots.
— Isaiah 2:7
Nor have we built houses in which to live, and we have not owned any vineyards or fields or crops.
— Jeremiah 35:9
in order to seize the spoil and carry off the plunder, to turn a hand against the desolate places now inhabited and against a people gathered from the nations, who have acquired livestock and possessions and who live at the center of the land.’
— Ezekiel 38:12
Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.
— Matthew 6:19
When the young man heard this, he went away in sorrow, because he had great wealth.
— Matthew 19:22
And He said to them, “Watch out! Guard yourselves against every form of greed, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”
— Luke 12:15