1) Vocabulary: pleonekteo = ‘the desire to have more.’ Pleon = more +
    ekteo = to have.

2) Mark 7:22, coveting comes from the sin nature.  Compare Romans
    1:29.

3) Luke 12:15;  Greed distracts from real life.

4) Ephesians 4:19, Improve over greed.  See the context of vv. 20-24.
    Also compare 5:3 and Colossians 3:5.

5) 1 Thessalonians 2:5; Spiritual leaders , speech and greed.  Also 2
    Peter 2:3 and 2:14.