人的欲望是无止境的，圣经劝勉我们"要以自己所有的为足"，靠主喜乐。
明代有一个散曲《十不足》，讲的是人的欲望与贪心：
终日奔忙只为饥，才得有食又思衣。
置下绫罗身上穿，抬头又嫌房屋低。
盖下高楼并大厦，床前缺少美娇妻。
娇妻美妾都娶下，又虑出门没马骑。
将钱买下高头马，鞍前马后少仆役。
家人招下十数个，有钱没势被人欺。
买官求得知县位，却嫌官小权势卑。
一攀攀到阁老职，每日思慕做皇帝。
一日面南坐天下，想与神仙下象棋。
洞宾与他把棋下，他问哪有上天梯
....可惜，洞宾不知耶稣与天国...
路12:13 众人中有一个人对耶稣说、夫子、请你吩咐我的兄长和我分开家业。
One of the multitude said to him, "Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me."
路12:14 耶稣说、你这个人、谁立我作你们断事的官、给你们分家业呢。
But he said to him, "Man, who made me a judge or an arbitrator over you?"
路12:15 于是对众人说、你们要谨慎自守、免去一切的贪心．因为人的生命不在乎家道丰富。
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."
路12:16 就用比喻对他们说、有一个财主、田产丰盛．
He spoke a parable to them, saying, "The ground of a certain rich man brought forth abundantly.
路12:17 自己心里思想说、我的出产没有地方收藏、怎么办呢。
He reasoned within himself, saying, 'What will I do, because I don't have room to store my crops?'
路12:18 又说、我要这么办．要把我的仓房拆了、另盖更大的．在那里好收藏我一切的粮食和财物。
He said, 'This is what I will do. I will pull down my barns, and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.
路12:19 然后要对我的灵魂说、灵魂哪、你有许多财物积存、可作多年的费用．只管安安逸逸的吃喝快乐吧。
I will tell my soul, "Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, be merry."'
路12:20 神却对他说、无知的人哪、今夜必要你的灵魂．你所预备的要归谁呢。
"But God said to him, 'You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared--whose will they be?'
路12:21 凡为自己积财、在神面前却不富足的、也是这样。
So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God."
来13:5 你们存心不可贪爱钱财．要以自己所有的为足．因为主曾说『我总不撇下你、也不丢弃你。』
Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, "I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you."
