Quotes About Greed

Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey, shedding blood, and destroying lives for dishonest gain.

By your great skill in trading you have increased your wealth, but your heart has grown proud because of it.

They cast lots for My people; they bartered a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine to drink.

This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Israel, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they sell the righteous for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals.

They lie down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge. And in the house of their God, they drink wine obtained through fines.

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.”

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.

asking, “When will the New Moon be over, that we may sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, that we may market wheat? Let us reduce the ephah and increase the shekel; let us cheat with dishonest scales.

Let us buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the chaff with the wheat!”

They covet fields and seize them; they take away houses. They deprive a man of his home, a fellow man of his inheritance.

Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets practice divination for money. Yet they lean upon the LORD, saying, “Is not the LORD among us? No disaster can come upon us.”

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.

Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, full of plunder, never without prey.

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.

and wealth indeed betrays him. He is an arrogant man never at rest. He enlarges his appetite like Sheol, and like Death, he is never satisfied. He gathers all the nations to himself and collects all the peoples as his own.

Will not all of these take up a taunt against him, speaking with mockery and derision: ëWoe to him who amasses what is not his and makes himself rich with many loans! How long will this go on?í

Woe to him who builds his house by unjust gain, to place his nest on high and escape the hand of disaster!

whose buyers slaughter them without remorse. Those who sell them say, ëBlessed be the LORD, for I am rich!í Even their own shepherds have no compassion on them.

But when the tenants saw the son, they said to one another, ëThis is the heir. Come, let us kill him and take his inheritance.í

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.

and asked, “What are you willing to give me if I hand Him over to you?” And they set out for him thirty pieces of silver.

greed, wickedness, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, arrogance, and foolishness.

But the tenants said to one another, ëThis is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.í

But woe to you who are rich, for you have already received your comfort.