Ecclesiastes 5:10

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• 1 Timothy 6:10
  For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. By craving it, some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many sorrows.
• Matthew 6:24
  No one can serve two masters: Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.
• Luke 12:15
  And He said to them, “Watch out! Guard yourselves against every form of greed, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”
• Matthew 6:19
  Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.
• Ecclesiastes 4:8
  There is a man all alone, without even a son or brother. And though there is no end to his labor, his eyes are still not content with his wealth: “For whom do I toil and bereave my soul of enjoyment?” This too is futile—a miserable task.
• Ecclesiastes 2:26
  To the man who is pleasing in His sight, He gives wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner He assigns the task of gathering and accumulating that which he will hand over to one who pleases God. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
• Ecclesiastes 4:4
  I saw that all labor and success spring from a man’s envy of his neighbor. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
• Psalm 62:10
  Place no trust in extortion or false hope in stolen goods. If your riches increase, do not set your heart upon them.
• Psalm 52:7
  “Look at the man who did not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his wealth and strengthened himself by destruction.”
• Habakkuk 2:5–7
  …and wealth indeed betrays him. He is an arrogant man never at rest. He enlarges his appetite like Sheol, and like Death, he is never satisfied. He gathers all the nations to himself and collects all the peoples as his own.
• Ecclesiastes 2:11
  Yet when I considered all the works that my hands had accomplished and what I had toiled to achieve, I found everything to be futile, a pursuit of the wind; there was nothing to be gained under the sun.
• Ecclesiastes 4:16
  There is no limit to all the people who were before them. Yet the successor will not be celebrated by those who come even later. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

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Psalm 49:1–20

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Book of Ecclesiastes

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Avarice: General Scriptures Concerning· Betting· Contentment: The Wicked Want· Covetousness is Never Satisfied· Covetousness: General Scriptures Concerning· Earning Money· Finances· Gambling· Gaming· Greed· Overcoming Greed· Poker· Riches: General Scriptures Concerning· Riches: Unsatisfying· Riches: Vanity of Heaping Up· Spending Money· The Love of Money· Vanity: Love of Riches Is