Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

And pierced

General references

Bible References

The love

Matthew 23:14
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Acts 1:16
Men, brethren, it behooved the scripture which the Holy Ghost predicted through the mouth of David concerning Judas, the one becoming leader to those arresting Jesus, to be fulfilled;
Titus 1:11
whose mouths it is necessary to stop; who overturn whole families, teaching those things which it does not behoove, for the sake of disgraceful gain.
Revelation 18:13
and cinnamon, and amomum, and incense, and myrrh, and libation, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and cattle, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and bodies and souls of men;

Coveted

1 Timothy 6:21
which some proclaiming have made shipwreck concerning the faith. Grace be with you.
2 Timothy 4:10
For Demas has left me, having loved the present age, and is gone into Thessalonica; Crescents into Galatia, Titus into Dalmatia.
Jude 1:11
Woe unto them! because they have gone off in the way of Cain, and in the delusion of Balaam they have been seduced by reward, and they perished in the gainsaying of Korah.
Revelation 2:14
But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there those holding the teachings of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumblingblock before the sons of Israel, and to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit fornication.

And pierced

2 Peter 2:7
and he delivered righteous Lot, being grieved by the deportment of the ungodly in their debauchery:

General references

Matthew 6:19
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust corrupt, and thieves break through and steal:
Mark 4:7
And other fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang up, and choked it, and it gave no fruit.