Bible Verses about “quick money”

“‹No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.›”

“[Let your] conversation [be] without covetousness; [and be] content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.”

“‹For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.›”

“‹But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:›”

“¶ ‹Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:›”

“For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.”

“¶ Wealth [gotten] by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.”

“And he said unto them, ‹Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.›”

“But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and [into] many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.”

“That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate;”

“Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;”

“Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.”

“He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this [is] also vanity.”

“Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.”

“¶ Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.”

“¶ The thoughts of the diligent [tend] only to plenteousness; but of every one [that is] hasty only to want.”

“¶ A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.”

“¶ Go to now, [ye] rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon [you].”

“Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.”

“Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.”

“Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.”

“¶ He that oppresseth the poor to increase his [riches, and] he that giveth to the rich, [shall] surely [come] to want.”

“¶ He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live.”

“¶ He that hasteth to be rich [hath] an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him.”

“Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for [riches] certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.”

“Ye have condemned [and] killed the just; [and] he doth not resist you.”

“¶ An inheritance [may be] gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.”

“[As] the partridge sitteth [on eggs], and hatcheth [them] not; [so] he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.”