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1 Timothy 6 10
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, and by craving it, some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.
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Matthew 6:24
“ No one can serve two masters, since either he will hate one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.
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Luke 12:15
He then told them,“ Watch out and be on guard against all greed, because one’s life is not in the abundance of his possessions.”
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Matthew 6:19
“ Don’t store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal.
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Ecclesiastes 4:8
There is a person without a companion, without even a son or brother, and though there is no end to all his struggles, his eyes are still not content with riches.“ Who am I struggling for,” he asks,“ and depriving myself of good things?” This too is futile and a miserable task.
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Ecclesiastes 2:11
When I considered all that I had accomplished and what I had labored to achieve, I found everything to be futile and a pursuit of the wind. There was nothing to be gained under the sun.
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Ecclesiastes 4:4
I saw that all labor and all skillful work is due to one person’s jealousy of another. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
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Psalms 62:10
Place no trust in oppression or false hope in robbery. If wealth increases, don’t set your heart on it.
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Ecclesiastes 2:26
For to the person who is pleasing in his sight, he gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and accumulating in order to give to the one who is pleasing in God’s sight. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
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Habakkuk 2:5-7
Moreover, wine betrays; an arrogant man is never at rest. He enlarges his appetite like Sheol, and like Death he is never satisfied. He gathers all the nations to himself; he collects all the peoples for himself.Won’t all of these take up a taunt against him, with mockery and riddles about him? They will say,“ Woe to him who amasses what is not his— how much longer?— and loads himself with goods taken in pledge.”Won’t your creditors suddenly arise, and those who disturb you wake up? Then you will become spoil for them.
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Ecclesiastes 4:16
There is no limit to all the people who were before them, yet those who come later will not rejoice in him. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
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Ecclesiastes 3:19
For the fate of the children of Adam and the fate of animals is the same. As one dies, so dies the other; they all have the same breath. People have no advantage over animals since everything is futile.
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Ecclesiastes 2:17-18
Therefore, I hated life because the work that was done under the sun was distressing to me. For everything is futile and a pursuit of the wind.I hated all my work that I labored at under the sun because I must leave it to the one who comes after me.
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Psalms 52:7
“ Here is the man who would not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, taking refuge in his destructive behavior.”
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Proverbs 30:15-16
The leech has two daughters:“ Give, Give!” Three things are never satisfied; four never say,“ Enough!”:Sheol; a childless womb; earth, which is never satisfied with water; and fire, which never says,“ Enough!”
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Ecclesiastes 1:17
I applied my mind to know wisdom and knowledge, madness and folly; I learned that this too is a pursuit of the wind.
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Psalms 52:1
Why boast about evil, you hero! God’s faithful love is constant.
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Ecclesiastes 6:7
All of a person’s labor is for his stomach, yet the appetite is never satisfied.
