A greedy man brings trouble to his family. (Proverbs 15:27)

All man's efforts are for his mouth, yet his appetite is never satisfied. (Ecclesiastes 6:7)

Death and Destruction are never satisfied, and neither are the eyes of man. (Proverbs 27:20)

As goods increase, so do those who consume them. And what benefit are they to the owner except to feast his eyes on them? (Ecclesiastes 5:11)

Better one handful with tranquility than two handfuls with toil and chasing after the wind. (Ecclesiastes 4:6)

A greedy man stirs up dissension, but he who trusts the LORD will prosper. (Proverbs 28:25)

A stingy man is eager to get rich and is unaware that poverty awaits him. (Proverbs 28:22)

Do not eat the food of a stingy man, do not crave his delicacies; for he is the kind of man who is always thinking about cost. "Eat and drink," he says to you, but his heart is not with you. (Proverbs 23:6-7)

What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don't they come from your desires that battle within you? You want something but don't get it. You kill and covet, but you cannot have what you want. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask God. (James 4:1-2)

When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures. (James 4:3)

Do not exploit the poor because they are poor. (Proverbs 22:22)

He who oppresses the poor to increase his wealth and he who gives gifts to the rich--both come to poverty. (Proverbs 22:16)

Turn my heart toward your statutes and not toward selfish gain. (Psalm 119:36)

Naked a man comes from his mother's womb, and as he comes, so he departs. He takes nothing from his labor that he can carry in his hand. (Ecclesiastes 5:15)

**Copyright, 2002, Brian Campbell (Permission is granted to copy for personal use only.)