Bible Verses about “the love of money”
The Bible contains 8 verses about the love of money across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“‹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 men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,”
“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.”
“He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this [is] also vanity.”