"Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have." --- Hebrews 13:5.
"But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil, etc." --- 1 Timothy 6:9, 10.
A covetous man is called an idolator, and has no part in the kingdom of God: but who believes that he is covetous? Now here you see that every one is covetous who is not content with what he has. And what says the apostle of such as will be rich? They fall. Not only they may fall, but they actually do fall: nor can the fall be avoided, if men are determined they will be rich.
O reader, be thou frightened; get covetous desires of thy heart subdued, and keep disentangled from worldly things; for who knows how soon you must go out of this world, and leave everything behind? Away with it from thy heart, else thy death will be very hard.
The Christian motto is, God and enough: for he that has God is content, and, consequently always rich enough, even in poverty; and that must be a covetous man indeed, who has not enough, having God. O Lord, make me so free by faith from the love of earthly things, that I may equally praise thee, whether thou be pleased to give me something, or take it away from me; and that I may never covetously refuse that to others or to myself, which thou hast given for my own and my neighbour's comfort.
The rich young man whom Jesus loved
Should warn us to forbear;
His love of earthly pleasures proved
A fatal golden snare. Mark 10:24.