Need Versus Greed

A range of explanations may be popping into your mind by now, like greed.

who having become callous gave themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

He said to them, Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man's life doesn't consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.

Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry

And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry

In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words whose sentence now from of old doesn't linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.

Then there are the Moroccan girls sitting at the airport and trying to entrap Kuwaiti men, in order to marry them out of greed. Then they take them home and perform magic on them.

having eyes full of adultery, and who can't cease from sin enticing unsettled souls having a heart trained in greed children of cursing

Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin beguiling unstable souls an heart they have exercised with covetous practices cursed children

Leave them to feast and revel , beguiled by hope they will come to know soon .

Leave them to eat and enjoy , and for aspiration to involve them in play so they will shortly come to know .

leave them to eat , and to take their joy , and to be bemused by hope certainly they will soon know !

Leave them thou to eat and to enjoy , and let vain hope divert them presently they will know .

Leave them to eat and enjoy , and let them be preoccupied with ( false ) hope . They will come to know !

Leave them to eat , and enjoy , and be lulled by hope . They will find out .

Leave them to eat and enjoy life and let false hopes amuse them . They will soon come to know .

Let them eat and enjoy life , and let ( false ) hope beguile them . They will come to know !

Leave them to eat and enjoy and to be diverted by longings . Soon they will know .

Let them eat and enjoy and let their hopes deceive them , soon they shall know .

Let them eat and enjoy themselves and be diverted by false hope , for they are going to know .

( Muhammad ) , leave them alone to eat and enjoy themselves and let their desires deceive them they will soon know ( the Truth ) .

Leave them that they may eat and enjoy themselves and ( that ) hope may beguile them , for they will soon know .

so leave them to eat and enjoy themselves and let them be beguiled by vain hopes for soon they will realise the truth .

Leave them alone , to enjoy ( the good things of this life ) and to please themselves let ( false ) hope amuse them soon will knowledge ( undeceive them ) .

So you get this sense of urgency, like you need to find as much stuff as possible as soon as possible.