1 Timothy 6:5

False Teachers And The Love Of Money

⁴ he is mad with conceit, knowing nothing, but has a morbid fondness for questions and contentions about words, out of which come envy, strife, railing, evil suspicions, ⁵ and wranglings, on the part of men who are corrupt in mind, and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a source of gain. From such withdraw yourself. ⁶ But godliness, with a contented disposition, is great gain.

Knowledge of the Truth

Men of Corrupt Minds

2 Timothy 3:8

Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so these also will withstand the truth; men corrupt in mind, rejected as it respects the faith.

Titus 1:11

whose mouths must be stopped: these subvert whole houses by teaching, for the sake of base gain, things which they ought not to teach.

2 Peter 2:3

and, with delusive words, they will, through covetousness, make gain of you: the condemnation, long ago denounced against these, delays not, and their destruction does not slumber.

Matthew 7:17-20

So every good tree produces goodly fruit: but an unsound tree produces diseased fruit.

Matthew 12:33

Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree unsound, and its fruit unsound. For by the fruit the tree is known.

Matthew 21:13

and said to them: It is written, My house shall be called a house of prayer; but you have made it a den of robbers.

Matthew 23:13

But alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you eat up the houses of widows, and for a pretext make long prayers. For this reason, you shall receive the greater condemnation.

John 3:19-21

And this is the condemnation, that light has come into the world, and men have loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

Acts 8:18-20

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

Acts 19:24-28

For a certain man, named Demetrius, a silversmith, by making silver shrines for Diana, furnished no little trade to the artists.

Romans 16:17-18

Now I beseech you, brethren, to mark those who make divisions and cause offenses in opposition to the teaching which you have learned, and avoid them.

1 Corinthians 11:16

But if any one seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, nor have the churches of God.

Ephesians 4:17-19

This I say, therefore, and appeal to you solemnly in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the other Gentiles walk, in the error of their minds,

2 Thessalonians 2:8-11

and then shall that lawless one be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will destroy by the spirit of his mouth, and will utterly over throw by the brightness of his coming:

2 Thessalonians 3:6

Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw from every brother that walks disorderly, and not according to the tradition which he received from us.

1 Timothy 1:6

which things some not having aimed at, have turned aside to idle disputation,

1 Timothy 3:3

not fond of wine, not quarrelsome, not one who makes money by base means; but gentle, not contentious, not covetous;

1 Timothy 3:8

The deacons, likewise, must be grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not makers of money by base means,

1 Timothy 6:6

But godliness, with a contented disposition, is great gain.

2 Timothy 3:5

having a form of godliness, but denying its power: from these also turn away.

Titus 1:15-16

To the pure, all things are pure: but to the denied and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but their mind and their conscience are denied.

Hebrews 3:12-13

Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in apostatizing from the living God.

2 Peter 2:15

who have forsaken the right way and gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;

2 John 1:8-10

Look to yourselves, that we lose not the things that we have gained, but that we receive a full reward.

Jude 1:11

Alas for them! for they have gone in the way of Cain: and, in the error of Balaam, they have rushed headlong after reward, and have perished in the rebellion of Korah.

Revelation 18:3

For she has made all nations drink of the maddening wine of her lewdness; and the kings of the earth have practiced lewdness with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich by the power of her voluptuousness.

Revelation 18:13

and cinnamon and amomum and incense, and ointment and frankincense, and wine and oil, and fine flour and wheat, and beasts and sheep, and horses and chariots, and bodies and souls of men.