1 Timothy 6:10

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.

The love

Coveted

And pierced

2 Peter 2:7

General references

Matthew 6:19

Mark 4:7

Bible References

The love

Wo unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: wherefore ye shall receive greater condemnation.

Men and brethren, it must needs be that this scripture should be fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost delivered before by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who was the conductor of those who seized on Jesus.

whose mouths ought to be muzzled, who pervert whole families, teaching things which they ought not, for the sake of base gain.

and cinnamon, and perfumes, and myrrh, and libanum, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and cattle, and sheep, and of horses, and of chariots, and of bodies, and the souls of men.

Coveted

which some affecting have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with thee.??men.

for Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is gone unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia; Titus to Dalmatia.

Wo unto them! for they have walked in the way of Cain, and have eagerly run in Balaam's erroneous path of hire, and have perished in opposition, like Corah.

Yet I have a few things against thee, that thou hast there some who hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to lay a stumbling-block before the children of Israel, to eat of idol sacrifices, and to commit whoredom.

And pierced

but righteous Lot, afflicted grievously with the infamously impure conduct of those lawless men, he plucked out:

General references

Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where the rust and canker spoil, and where thieves dig through and steal:

And some fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang up with it and choked it, and it produced no fruit.