Quotes about Covetousness
Because his appetite is never satisfied, he cannot escape with his treasure.
- Job 20:20
Though he heaps up silver like dust and piles up a wardrobe like clay,
- Job 27:16
if I have rejoiced in my great wealth because my hand had gained so much,
- Job 31:25
For I envied the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
- Psalm 73:3
All day long he covets more, but the righteous give without restraint.
- Proverbs 21:26
Woe to you who add house to house and join field to field until no place is left and you live alone in the land.
- Isaiah 5:8
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
Then He told them a parable: “The ground of a certain rich man produced an abundance.
- Luke 12:16
You crave what you do not have; you kill and covet, but are unable to obtain it. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask.
- James 4:2
2. Greed, or acquisitive desire.
- Peter Kreeft
Suffocate the flames of envy with a blanket of gratitude.
- Craig Groeschel
All envy is proportionate to desire.
- Samuel Johnson