Bible Verses About wanting more

“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.”

“But godliness with contentment is great gain.”

“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.”

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

“Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.”

“But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.”

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

“Remove far from me vanity and lies : give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: convenient: Heb. of my allowance”

“Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied. never: Heb. not”

“And the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what shall we do? And he said unto them, Do violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely; and be content with your wages. Do violence: or, Put no man in fear wages: or, allowance”

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

“Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.”

“Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.”

“From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? fightings: or, brawlings lusts: or, pleasures”

“He that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife: but he that putteth his trust in the LORD shall be made fat.”

“Two things have I required of thee; deny me them not before I die: deny: Heb. withhold not from me”

“I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.”

“Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.”

“There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.”

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