is gambling a sin

¹⁹And may my God fulfill all your desires, according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

⁵Let your behavior be without avarice; be content with what you are offered. For he himself has said, “I will not abandon you, and I will not neglect you.”

¹⁰For desire is the root of all evils. Some persons, hungering in this way, have strayed from the faith and have entangled themselves in many sorrows.

¹³No servant is able to serve two lords. For either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will cling to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.”

¹⁵So he said to them: “Be cautious and wary of all avarice. For a person’s life is not found in the abundance of the things that he possesses.”

²²Abstain from every kind of evil.

¹²All is lawful to me, but not all is expedient. All is lawful to me, but I will not be driven back by the authority of anyone.

⁹For those who want to become rich fall into temptation and into the snare of the devil and into many useless and harmful desires, which submerge men in destruction and in perdition.

³³Therefore, seek first the kingdom of God and his justice, and all these things shall be added to you as well.

²⁴No one is able to serve two masters. For either he will have hatred for the one, and love the other, or he will persevere with the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.

⁹For those who want to become rich fall into temptation and into the snare of the devil and into many useless and harmful desires, which submerge men in destruction and in perdition. ¹⁰For desire is the root of all evils. Some persons, hungering in this way, have strayed from the faith and have entangled themselves in many sorrows.

¹¹Substance obtained in haste will be diminished. But what is collected by hand, little by little, shall be multiplied.

¹⁰Where there are many riches, there will also be many to consume these things. And how does it benefit the one who possesses, except that he discerns the wealth with his own eyes?

²³And they appointed two: Joseph, who was called Barsabbas, who was surnamed Justus, and Matthias. ²⁴And praying, they said: “May you, O Lord, who knows the heart of everyone, reveal which one of these two you have chosen, ²⁵to take a place in this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas prevaricated, so that he might go to his own place.” ²⁶And they cast lots concerning them, and the lot fell upon Matthias. And he was numbered with the eleven Apostles.

²²A man who hurries to become rich, and who envies others, does not know that destitution will overwhelm him.

¹⁰Just as each of you has received grace, minister in the same way to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

⁷And a man said to his shipmate, “Come, and let us cast lots, so that we may know why this disaster is upon us.” And they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah.

³³Lots are cast into the lap, but they are tempered by the Lord.

²⁰“But,” he said “the things which go out from a man, these pollute a man. ²¹For from within, from the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, ²²thefts, avarice, wickedness, deceitfulness, homosexuality, an evil eye, blasphemy, self-exaltation, foolishness. ²³All these evils proceed from within and pollute a man.”