– Inordinate love of riches. None of this is useful: Ecl 2,7-11: There is nothing profitable under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 5: 9-16 : I saw a painful misery under the sun: the riches that a possessor had kept.
Eclo 14,3 : For the covetous man, wealth is useless; what good is gold to the envious man?
Mark 8:36 : For what will it profit a man to gain the whole world if he loses his life?
Lk 12:15 : Beware of all covetousness scrupulously.
– Cause of all evils:
Pr 1,19 : Such is the fate of every man greedy for wealth: he takes life from him who holds it.
Eclo 10,9 : Nothing is more criminal than avarice; What is earth and gray proud of?
– It is a kind of idolatry:
Mt 6,24 : You cannot serve God and wealth.
Col 3,5 : Debauchery, impurity, passions, evil desires, covetousness, which is idolatry.
Eph 5 :5 : No dissolute, […] or covetous – true idolaters! – will have an inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and of God.
– We should run away from her:
Ps 118,36 : Incline my heart to your orders and not to avarice.
Mt 6:19 : Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where rust and moths destroy.
Lk 12:15 : Beware of all covetousness scrupulously.
1Cor 6,10 : Neither the covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor thieves will possess the Kingdom of God.
Tit 1,7.1 : For it is necessary that the bishop be blameless, as a steward appointed by God.
Heb 13,5 : Live without covetousness. Be content with what you have.
– Judges in particular must abstain from it:
Ex 18:21 : But you shall choose from among the people prudent men, fearing God, upright, disinterested.
Ex 23,8 : Thou shalt not accept gifts, because gifts blind those who see clearly, and lose just causes.
Deut 16:19 : Thou shalt not bend justice […]; Thou shalt not accept gifts, because gifts are blind.
Deuteronomy 27:25 : Cursed is he who accepts gratuity to put the innocent to death!
Pr 15:27 : The covetous man disturbs his house, he who hates bribes will live.
Pr 17:23 : The wicked accepts a gift secretly to turn away the tongue of justice.
Pr 28:16 : A prince, devoid of sense, is rich in extortions, but he who hates gain will live long days.
Is 5,23 : (Woe) to those who, by a gift, absolve the guilty, and deny justice to the one who has the right on their side!
Is 33,15 : He who acts well and speaks the truth, who does not want an extorted benefit.
Ez 22,12s : In you gifts are accepted to shed blood, you receive usury […] you do violence to your neighbor.
Mic 3:11 : To benefit you I will drive away the locust, which will no longer destroy the fruits of your land.
– The prophets raise their voice against her:
Is 5:8: Woe to you who join house to house and add field to field.
Is 56,11 : They are ravenous dogs […], they are shepherds who observe nothing, each one goes his way in search of his interest.
Jr 6.13 : Indeed, from the greatest to the least, all give themselves to dishonest gains.
Jr 8,10 : I will give […] your fields to new owners, since […] they all give themselves to dishonest profits.
Jer 22,17 : But your eyes and your heart have only sought to satisfy your greed, to shed the blood of the innocent.
Hab 2,9 : Woe to him who seeks criminal gain for his house, and who wants to set his nest high.
