1 Timothy 6:5

False Teachers And The Love Of Money

⁴ is a conceited, ignorant person, with a morbid craving for speculations and arguments which result only in envy, quarreling, abuse, base suspicions, ⁵ and mutual irritation between people of depraved minds, who are lost to the truth and think of religion only as a means of gain. ⁶ And religion with contentment is a great means of gain.

Knowledge of the Truth

Men of Corrupt Minds

2 Timothy 3:8

Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, these people in turn oppose the truth; they are men of depraved minds and counterfeit faith.

Titus 1:11

They must be silenced, for such men upset whole households by teaching things they ought not to teach, for the sake of dishonest gain.

2 Peter 2:3

In their greed they will exploit you with pretended arguments. From of old their condemnation has not been idle, and their destruction has not slumbered.

Matthew 7:17-20

Just so any sound tree bears good fruit, but a poor tree bears bad fruit.

Matthew 12:33

"You must either make the tree sound and its fruit sound, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad; a tree is judged by its fruit.

Matthew 21:13

and he said to them, "The Scripture says, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer,' but you make it a robbers' cave."

Matthew 23:13

"But alas for you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees, for you lock the doors of the Kingdom of Heaven in men's faces, for you will neither go in yourselves nor let those enter who are trying to do so.

John 3:19-21

And the basis of the judgment is this, that the light has come into the world, and yet, because their actions were wicked, men have loved the darkness more than the light.

Acts 8:18-20

But when Simon saw that the holy Spirit was imparted through the laying on of the apostles' hands, he offered them money,

Acts 19:24-28

A silversmith named Demetrius was making large profits for his workmen by the manufacture of silver shrines of Artemis.

Romans 16:17-18

I beg you, brothers, to be on the watch for those who introduce divisions and difficulties, in opposition to the instruction that you were given, and to avoid them.

1 Corinthians 11:16

But if anyone is disposed to be contentious about it, I for my part recognize no other practice in worship than this, and neither do the churches of God.

Ephesians 4:17-19

So what I mean and insist upon in the Lord's name is this: You must no longer live like the heathen, with their frivolity of mind and darkened understanding.

2 Thessalonians 2:8-11

Then the embodiment of disobedience will make his appearance, and the Lord Jesus will destroy him with the breath of his mouth and annihilate him by his appearance and arrival.

2 Thessalonians 3:6

We charge you, brothers, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, to keep away from any brother who lives in idleness, instead of following the teaching you received from us.

1 Timothy 1:6

Some people have failed in these things and been diverted into fruitless talk.

1 Timothy 3:3

not addicted to drink or pugnacious, but a man of moderation and peace, not avaricious,

1 Timothy 3:8

Assistants, in turn, must be serious, straightforward men, not addicted to wine or dishonest gain,

1 Timothy 6:6

And religion with contentment is a great means of gain.

2 Timothy 3:5

keeping up the forms of religion, but resisting its influence. Avoid such people.

Titus 1:15-16

To the pure everything is pure, but to the evil-minded and unbelieving nothing is pure, but their very minds and consciences are unclean.

Hebrews 3:12-13

See to it, my brothers, that no one of you has a wicked, unbelieving heart, that turns away from the ever-living God,

2 Peter 2:15

They have left the straight path and gone astray. They have followed the path of Balaam, the son of Beor, who set his heart on dishonest gain,

2 John 1:8-10

Look out for yourselves, take care not to lose what we have worked for, but make sure that you are paid for it in full.

Jude 1:11

Alas for them, for they follow Cain's path, they plunge into Balaam's error for gain, and they perish in rebelliousness like Korah's.

Revelation 18:3

for after drinking the wine of the passion of her immorality all the heathen have fallen; the kings of the earth have joined in her idolatry, and the traders of the earth have grown rich from her excessive luxury!"

Revelation 18:13

and cinnamon, spices, incense, perfume, frankincense, wine, olive oil, flour, wheat, cattle, sheep, horses, carriages, slaves??nd human lives!