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Want to know what the Bible says about Materialism? Here are 107 Bible verses about Materialism from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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Haggai 2:8 NIV
‘The silver is mine and the gold is mine,’ declares the Lord Almighty.
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Ezekiel 7:19 NIV
“‘They will throw their silver into the streets,
    and their gold will be treated as a thing unclean.
Their silver and gold
    will not be able to deliver them
    in the day of the Lord’s wrath.
It will not satisfy their hunger
    or fill their stomachs,
    for it has caused them to stumble into sin.
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Proverbs 31:25 NIV
She is clothed with strength and dignity;
    she can laugh at the days to come.
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Romans 2:6-8 NIV
6 God “will repay each person according to what they have done.” 7 To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor and immortality, he will give eternal life. 8 But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil, there will be wrath and anger.
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Acts 8:20 NIV
Peter answered: “May your money perish with you, because you thought you could buy the gift of God with money!
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Deuteronomy 28:47-48 NIV
47 Because you did not serve the Lord your God joyfully and gladly in the time of prosperity, 48 therefore in hunger and thirst, in nakedness and dire poverty, you will serve the enemies the Lord sends against you. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.
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Matthew 26:15 NIV
and asked, “What are you willing to give me if I deliver him over to you?” So they counted out for him thirty pieces of silver.
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Zephaniah 1:18 NIV
Neither their silver nor their gold
    will be able to save them
    on the day of the Lord’s wrath.”
In the fire of his jealousy
    the whole earth will be consumed,
for he will make a sudden end
    of all who live on the earth.
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Isaiah 13:12 NIV
I will make people scarcer than pure gold,
    more rare than the gold of Ophir.
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Genesis 13:6 NIV
But the land could not support them while they stayed together, for their possessions were so great that they were not able to stay together.
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