100 Bible Verses About Materialism

And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour.

There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins without number.

Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.

For in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you for a sin.

Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.

Now Rachel had taken the images, and put them in the camel’s furniture, and sat upon them. And Laban searched all the tent, but found them not.

Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the best gold.

And when thou art spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair; thy lovers will despise thee, they will seek thy life.

But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey to ourselves.

Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:

Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.

The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,

The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.

They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion together that are makers of idols.

For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of the willows.

Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.

He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.

The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.

The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.

Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold.

Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son’s mandrakes.

Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the Lord.

For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.

Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.

And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.

Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy loaden; they are a burden to the weary beast.

So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran unto the tent; and, behold, it was hid in his tent, and the silver under it.

And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; keep that thou hast unto thyself.

And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him; but took the poor man’s lamb, and dressed it for the man that was come to him.

They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.

The desire of a man is his kindness: and a poor man is better than a liar.

Moreover the Lord saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:

And when the messengers were come in, behold, there was an image in the bed, with a pillow of goats’ hair for his bolster.

We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:

And now, though thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore longedst after thy father’s house, yet wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?

And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far off, and didst debase thyself even unto hell.

He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image, that shall not be moved.

They that make them are like unto them: so is every one that trusteth in them.

And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.

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

Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,

I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.

The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that saith not, It is enough.

They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;

The rings, and nose jewels,

A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked.

And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me.

If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.

What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here, as he that heweth him out a sepulchre on high, and that graveth an habitation for himself in a rock?

And Hezekiah was glad of them, and shewed them the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of his armour, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah shewed them not.

All the pillars round about the court shall be filleted with silver; their hooks shall be of silver, and their sockets of brass.

Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.

The rich man’s wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.

Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks.

Many will intreat the favour of the prince: and every man is a friend to him that giveth gifts.

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

For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.

Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me: and eat ye every one of his vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his own cistern;

And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim: and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands.

And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me?

Each charger of silver weighing an hundred and thirty shekels, each bowl seventy: all the silver vessels weighed two thousand and four hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:

The rich man is wise in his own conceit; but the poor that hath understanding searcheth him out.

If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.

There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches.

He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.

I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts.

All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:

Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:

And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved.

They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship.

The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails.

In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;

And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures.

And thirty thousand asses and five hundred,

Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.

Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.

Ye made also a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool: but ye have not looked unto the maker thereof, neither had respect unto him that fashioned it long ago.

And when he had restored the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, his mother said, I had wholly dedicated the silver unto the Lord from my hand for my son, to make a graven image and a molten image: now therefore I will restore it unto thee.

And threescore and one thousand asses,

And he took away the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king’s house; he even took away all: and he took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made.

Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and stank: and Moses was wroth with them.

The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.

There is treasure to be desired and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man spendeth it up.

A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

The crown of the wise is their riches: but the foolishness of fools is folly.

The ransom of a man’s life are his riches: but the poor heareth not rebuke.

And he said, Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son’s venison, that my soul may bless thee. And he brought it near to him, and he did eat: and he brought him wine, and he drank.

And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind?

For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxen fat; then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant.

And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the Lord, neither consider the operation of his hands.

There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.

We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick:

And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold;

For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.