Psalm 50:14-15
Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:
Psalm 100:4
Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and
bless his name.
Colossians 3:15
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye
thankful.
Ephesians 5:20
Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;
Philippians 4:11
Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be
content.
Colossians 3:17
And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to
God and the Father by him.
I Thessalonians 5:18
In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
19 Quench not the Spirit.
I Timothy 6:6,8
But godliness with contentment is great gain.
8 And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.
Hebrews 13:5
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.
Warnings Against Selfishness and Covetousness
Exodus 18:21
Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating
covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of
fifties, and rulers of tens:
Psalm 37:1
Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the
workers of iniquity.
Proverbs 3:31-32
Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.
32 For the froward is abomination to the LORD: but his secret is with the righteous.
Proverbs 23:17
Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long.
Proverbs 24:1
Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them.
Proverbs 27:4
Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?
Proverbs 28:16
The prince that wanteth understanding is also a great oppressor: but he that hateth covetousness
shall prolong his days.
Song of Solomon 8:6
Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is
cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.
Ecclesiastes 4:4
Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This
is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
Ezekiel 35:11
Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will even do according to thine anger, and according to
thine envy which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them; and I will make myself known among
them, when I have judged thee.
Mark 7:21-23
For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
23 All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.
Luke 12:15
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.
I Corinthians 5:11
But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a
fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no
not to eat.
I Corinthians 13:4
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
Galatians 5:26
Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
Ephesians 5:5
For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater,
hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
Colossians 3:5
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate
affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
I Thessalonians 2:5
For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God is
witness:
I Timothy 6:4-5
He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy,
strife, railings, evil surmisings,
5 Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness:
from such withdraw thyself.
Titus 3:3-5
For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and
pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
4 But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared,
5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the
washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
Hebrews 13:5
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.
II Peter 2:5
And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness,
bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
