What does the Bible say about Love of Money?
Ecclesiastes 5:10 (NKJV) “He who loves silver will not be satisfied with silver; Nor he who loves abundance, with increase. This also is vanity.”
Proverbs 13:11 (NKJV) “Wealth gained by dishonesty will be diminished, But he who gathers by labor will increase.”
Matthew 19:21–24 (NKJV) “Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me.” But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions. Then Jesus said to His disciples, “Assuredly, I say to you that it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. And again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.””
Luke 16:13 (NKJV) ““No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.””
Acts 8:20 (NKJV) “But Peter said to him, “Your money perish with you, because you thought that the gift of God could be purchased with money!”
Philippians 4:11–12 (NKJV) “Not that I speak in regard to need, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content: 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.”
1 Timothy 3:3 (NKJV) “not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;”
1 Timothy 6:10 (NKJV) “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.”
2 Timothy 3:2 (NKJV) “For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,”
Hebrews 13:5 (NKJV) “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.””
2 Peter 2:15 (NKJV) “They have forsaken the right way and gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;”
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