Top 25 Bible Verses About Playing Poker (NIV)

¹⁰ For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.

¹¹ Dishonest money dwindles away, but he who gathers money little by little makes it grow.

¹⁹ Let us therefore make every effort to do what leads to peace and to mutual edification.

⁵ Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, "Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you."

²⁴ But the king replied to Araunah, "No, I insist on paying you for it. I will not sacrifice to the LORD my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing." So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen and paid fifty shekels of silver for them.

¹⁰ nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

²⁹ They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, ³⁰ slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; ³¹ they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless. ³² Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.

¹⁰ Whoever loves money never has money enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with his income. This too is meaningless.

²² A stingy man is eager to get rich and is unaware that poverty awaits him.

²⁰ A faithful man will be richly blessed, but one eager to get rich will not go unpunished.

⁴ Do not wear yourself out to get rich; have the wisdom to show restraint. ⁵ Cast but a glance at riches, and they are gone, for they will surely sprout wings and fly off to the sky like an eagle.

³³ The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the LORD.

⁶ A fortune made by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor and a deadly snare. ⁷ The violence of the wicked will drag them away, for they refuse to do what is right. ⁸ The way of the guilty is devious, but the conduct of the innocent is upright. ⁹ Better to live on a corner of the roof than share a house with a quarrelsome wife. ¹⁰ The wicked man craves evil; his neighbor gets no mercy from him. ¹¹ When a mocker is punished, the simple gain wisdom; when a wise man is instructed, he gets knowledge.