20 Bijbelverzen over hebzucht en egoïsme

The Bible forbids greed, calls it idolatry, and ties disorder among believers to envy and selfish ambition. Those three points come from Exodus 20:17, Colossians 3:5 and James 3:16; Jesus’ warning against “all kinds of greed” (Luke 12:15), 1 Timothy 6:10 on the love of money, and Philippians 2:3-4 add to them. Luke 12:15, Colossians 3:5 and Ephesians 5:3 use the same Greek word for greed, pleonexia, which Strong’s lexicon glosses as greed or covetousness. The “selfish ambition” of James…