1 Timothy 6:5

False Teachers And The Love Of Money

⁴ he is a conceited person and does not understand anything. He has an unhealthy craving for arguments and debates. This produces jealousy, rivalry, slander, evil suspicions, ⁵ and incessant conflict between people who are depraved in mind and deprived of truth. They think that godliness is a way to make a profit. ⁶ Of course, godliness with contentment does bring a great profit.

Knowledge of the Truth

Men of Corrupt Minds

2 Timothy 3:8

Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men oppose the truth. They are depraved in mind and their faith is a counterfeit.

Titus 1:11

They must be silenced, because they are the kind of people who ruin whole families by teaching what they should not teach in order to make money in a shameful way.

2 Peter 2:3

In their greed they will exploit you with deceptive words. The ancient verdict against them is still in force, and their destruction is not delayed.

2 Kings 5:20-27

After Naaman had gone only a short distance, Gehazi, the attendant to Elisha, the man of God, told himself, "Look how my master has spared this Aramean, Naaman! He declined to take from him what he brought. As the LORD lives, I'm going to run after him and get something from him."

Isaiah 56:11

Meanwhile, the dogs have a mighty appetite they can never get enough. And as for them, they are the shepherds who lack understanding; they have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, each and every one.

Jeremiah 6:13

"Indeed, from the least important to the most important, they're all greedy for dishonest gain. From prophet to priest, they all act deceitfully.

Jeremiah 8:10

Therefore, I'll give their wives to others, and their fields to new owners. Indeed, from the least important to the most important, they're all greedy for dishonest gain. From prophet to priest, they all act deceitfully.

Ezekiel 33:31

Then they come to you as a group, sit down right in front of you as if they were my people, hear your words and then they don't do what you say because they're seeking only their own desires, they pursue ill-gotten profits, and they keep following their own self-interests.

Matthew 7:17-20

In the same way, every good tree produces good fruit, but a rotten tree produces bad fruit.

Matthew 12:33

"Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree rotten and its fruit rotten, because a tree is known by its fruit.

Matthew 21:13

He told them, "It is written, "My house is to be called a house of prayer,' but you are turning it into a hideout for bandits!"

Matthew 23:13

"How terrible it will be for you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the door to the kingdom from heaven in people's faces. You don't go in yourselves, and you don't allow those who are trying to enter to go in.

John 3:19-21

And this is the basis for judgment: The light has come into the world, but people loved the darkness more than the light because their actions were evil.

Acts 8:18-20

Now when Simon saw that the Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles' hands, he offered them money

Acts 19:24-28

By making silver shrines of Artemis, a silversmith named Demetrius provided a large income for skilled workers.

Romans 16:17-18

Now I urge you, brothers, to watch out for those who create divisions and sinful enticements that oppose the teaching you have learned. Stay away from them,

1 Corinthians 11:16

But if anyone wants to argue about this, we do not have any custom like this, nor do any of God's churches.

Ephesians 4:17-19

Therefore, I tell you and insist on in the Lord not to live any longer like the gentiles live, thinking worthless thoughts.

2 Thessalonians 2:8-11

Then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will destroy with the breath of his mouth, rendering him powerless by the manifestation of his coming.

2 Thessalonians 3:6

In the name of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah, we command you, brothers, to keep away from every brother who is living in idleness and not living according to the tradition that they received from us.

1 Timothy 1:6

Some people have left these qualities behind and have turned to fruitless discussion.

1 Timothy 3:3

He must not drink excessively or be a violent person, but instead be gentle. He must not be argumentative or love money.

1 Timothy 3:8

Ministers, too, must be serious. They must not be two-faced, addicted to wine, or greedy for money.

1 Timothy 6:6

Of course, godliness with contentment does bring a great profit.

2 Timothy 3:5

They will hold to an outward form of godliness but deny its power. Stay away from such people.

Titus 1:15-16

Everything is clean to those who are clean, but nothing is clean to those who are corrupt and unbelieving. Indeed, their very way of thinking and their consciences have been corrupted.

Hebrews 3:12-13

See to it, my brothers, that no evil, unbelieving heart is found in any of you, as shown by your turning away from the living God.

2 Peter 2:15

They have left the straight path and wandered off to follow the path of Bosor's son Balaam, who loved the reward he got for doing wrong.

2 John 1:8-10

See to it that you don't destroy what we have worked for, but that you receive your full reward.

Jude 1:11

11How terrible it will be for them! For they lived like Cain did , rushed headlong into Balaam's error to make a profit, and destroyed themselves, as happened in Korah's rebellion.

Revelation 18:3

For all the nations have drunk from the wine of her sexual immorality, and the kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality with her. The world's businesses have become rich from her luxurious excesses."

Revelation 18:13

cinnamon, spice, incense, myrrh, frankincense, wine, olive oil, flour, wheat, cattle, sheep, horses, chariots, and slaves (that is, human souls)