1 Corinthians 3:12
Now if anyone builds upon the foundation [with] gold, silver, precious stones, wood, grass, straw,
Psalm 19:10
more desirable than gold, even much fine gold; and sweeter than honey, even honey [in the] comb.
Psalm 119:72
The law of your mouth [is] better to me than thousands of gold and silver [coins].
Proverbs 8:10
Take my teaching and not silver; may you choose knowledge rather than choice gold.
Proverbs 16:16
Getting wisdom: {how much} better than gold! And getting understanding: it is chosen {over} silver.
Proverbs 30:6
Do not add to his words lest he rebuke you and you be found a liar.
Isaiah 54:11-13
"O afflicted [one], driven away, [who] is not consoled. Look! I [am] about to set your stones in hard mortar, and I will lay your foundation with sapphires.
Isaiah 60:17
Instead of bronze I will bring gold, and instead of iron I will bring silver, and instead of wood, bronze, and instead of stones, iron. And I will {appoint} peace [as] your overseer, and righteousness [as] {your ruling body}.
Jeremiah 23:28
The prophet who [has] with him a dream, let him tell [the] dream. But [the prophet] who [has] my word with him, let him speak my word faithfully. {What is straw compared to wheat}?" {declares} Yahweh.
Matthew 15:6-9
need not honor his father,' and you make void the word of God for the sake of your tradition.
Acts 20:30
And from among you yourselves men will arise, speaking {perversions of the truth} in order to draw away the disciples after them.
Romans 16:17
Now I exhort you, brothers, to look out for those who cause dissensions and temptations contrary to the teaching which you learned, and stay away from them.
2 Corinthians 2:17
For we are not like the majority who peddle the word of God, but as from pure motives--but as from God--we speak before God in Christ.
2 Corinthians 4:2
but we have renounced shameful hidden things, not behaving with craftiness or adulterating the word of God, but with the open proclamation of the truth commending ourselves to every person's conscience before God.
Colossians 2:8
Beware lest {anyone take you captive} through philosophy and empty deceit, according to {human tradition}, according to the elemental spirits of the world and not according to Christ,
Colossians 2:18-23
Let no one condemn you, taking pleasure in humility and the worship of angels, going into detail [about] [the things] which he has seen, inflated without cause by his fleshly mind,
1 Timothy 4:1-3
Now the Spirit explicitly says that in the last times some will depart from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons,
1 Timothy 4:6-7
[By] teaching these [things] to the brothers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, trained in the words of the faith and of the good teaching that you have followed faithfully.
1 Timothy 6:3
If anyone teaches other doctrine and does not devote himself to the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching [that is] in accordance with godliness,
2 Timothy 2:16-18
But avoid pointless chatter, for it will progress to greater ungodliness,
2 Timothy 2:20
Now in a great house [there] are not only gold and silver vessels, but also wooden and earthenware [ones], some of which [are] for honorable use, and some of which [are] for ordinary use.
2 Timothy 3:7
always learning and never able to come to a knowledge of the truth.
2 Timothy 3:13
But evil people and imposters will progress to the worse, deceiving and being deceived.
2 Timothy 4:3
For there will be a time when they will not put up with sound teaching, but in accordance with their own desires, they will accumulate for themselves teachers, {because they have an insatiable curiosity},
Titus 1:9-11
holding fast to the faithful message according to the teaching, in order that he may be able both to exhort with sound instruction and to reprove those who speak against [it].
Titus 3:9-11
But avoid foolish controversies and genealogies and contentions and quarrels about the law, for they are useless and fruitless.
Hebrews 13:9
Do not be carried away by various and strange teachings, for [it is] good [for] the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods by which those who participate have not benefited.
1 Peter 1:7
so that the genuineness of your faith, more valuable than gold that is passing away, but is tested by fire, may be found to [result in] praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ,
Revelation 2:14
But I have a few [things] against you: that you have there those who hold fast to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, to eat food sacrificed to idols and to commit sexual immorality.
Revelation 3:18
I advise you to buy from me gold refined by fire, in order that you may become rich, and white clothing, in order that you may be clothed and the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed, and eye salve to smear on your eyes, in order that you may see.
Revelation 21:18
And the material of its wall [is] jasper, and the city [is] pure gold, similar in appearance to pure glass.