Bible Verses About Possessiveness

Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.

Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours;

For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ’s.

For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.

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 jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.

And it shall be unto them for an inheritance: I am their inheritance: and ye shall give them no possession in Israel: I am their possession.

But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.

And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man’s, who shall give you that which is your own?

So will I make my fury toward thee to rest, and my jealousy shall depart from thee, and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry.

But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.

Let them be only thine own, and not strangers’ with thee.

This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside to another instead of her husband, and is defiled;

And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.

For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;

And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common.

For thou shalt worship no other god: for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:

Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?

For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

And the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be not defiled:

Or when the spirit of jealousy cometh upon him, and he be jealous over his wife, and shall set the woman before the Lord, and the priest shall execute upon her all this law.

Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour’s wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour’s house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbour’s.

Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!

Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall inherit them: for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

He coveteth greedily all the day long: but the righteous giveth and spareth not.

For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

And he said unto him, Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine.

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.

And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.

For the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.

For he knew that for envy they had delivered him.

But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men’s matters.

Wilt not thou possess that which Chemosh thy god giveth thee to possess? So whomsoever the Lord our God shall drive out from before us, them will we possess.

He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance.

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.

Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.

Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.

Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.