Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death.

Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished, but he who gathers with the labor of his hands shall increase.

No good! It is no good! says the buyer; but when he has gone his way, then he boasts.

An inheritance obtained by greed in the beginning will not be blessed in the end.

He who sows iniquity shall reap vanity; and the rod of his anger shall fail.

Remove far from me vanity and lying words; give me neither poverty or riches, provide for me my prescribed portion of food;

The partridge sets on eggs and does not hatch them; in the same way he who gets riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the middle of his days, and at his end he shall be a fool.

But those who purpose to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts which plunge people into ruin and destruction.

For the love of money is a root of all evils, for which some being greedy, have strayed from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

whose mouths must be stopped, who overturn whole households, teaching things which they ought not, for the sake of dishonest gain.

By covetousness they will exploit you with well-turned words; whose judgment of old is not idle, and their destruction does not slumber.

But he who sins against me does violence to his own soul; all who hate me love death.

Cast away from you all the transgressions by which you have transgressed, and prepare for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit; for why will you die, O house of Israel?