1 Timothy 6:5

False Teachers And The Love Of Money

⁴ He has been proud, knowing nothing, but sick about questions and disputes of words, of which is envy, strife, slanders, evil conjectures, ⁵ Unprofitable occupations of men corrupted in mind, and deprived of the truth, thinking gain to be devotion: be separated from such. ⁶ But devotion with contentment is great gain.

Knowledge of the Truth

Men of Corrupt Minds

2 Timothy 3:8

And as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so also these have withstood the truth: men corrupted in mind, not tried concerning the faith.

Titus 1:11

Who must be restrained, who subvert whole houses, teaching what they ought not, for the sake of sordid gain.

2 Peter 2:3

And by covetousness with feigned words shall trade in you: to whom judgment since a long while is not inactive, and their perdition sleeps not.

2 Kings 5:20-27

And Gehazi the boy of Elisha, the man of God, will say, Behold, my lord spared Naaman this Aramite from taking from his hand what he brought: Jehovah lives, for if I ran after him land book from him something.

Isaiah 56:11

And dogs hard of soul, they knew not fulness; and they are evil, they know not understanding; they all looked to their way, a man to his plunder from his extremity.

Jeremiah 6:13

For from their little even to their great, every one plundering, plundered; and from the prophet and even to the priest every one did falsehood.

Jeremiah 8:10

For this I will give their wives to others; their fields to those inheriting them: for from small and even to great all plundering a plunder, from the prophet and even to the priest, all did falsehood.

Ezekiel 33:31

And they will come to thee, according to the coming of the people, and they will sit before thee my people, and they heard thy words, and they did them not: for they making loves with their mouth, their heart went after their plunder.

Matthew 7:17-20

So every good tree makes good fruits; but the rotten tree makes evil fruits.

Matthew 12:33

Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree rotten, and its fruit rotten; for the tree is known by its fruit.

Matthew 21:13

And he says to them, It was written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; and ye have made it a den of robbers.

Matthew 23:13

Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye lock up the kingdom of the heavens before men: for ye come not in yourselves, neither those coming in, permit ye to come in.

John 3:19-21

And this is the judgment, that light has come into the world, and men rather loved darkness than light, for their works were evil.

Acts 8:18-20

And Simon having seen that by putting on of hands of the sent the Holy Spirit is given, he brought money to them,

Acts 19:24-28

For a certain Demetrius by name, a silversmith, making the silver temples of Diana, furnished no little work to artificers;

Romans 16:17-18

And I beseech you, brethren, to observe narrowly them having made divisions and scandals against the teaching which ye learned; and bend away from them.

1 Corinthians 11:16

And if any one seem to be loving strife, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.

Ephesians 4:17-19

Therefore this I say, and testify in the Lord, that ye no more walk as also the rest of the nations, in the vanity of their mind,

2 Thessalonians 2:8-11

And then shall the Lawless one be revealed, whom the Lord will destroy with the spirit of his mouth, and leave unemployed in the splendor of his arrival:

2 Thessalonians 3:6

And we proclaim to you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, for you to shrink from every brother walking disorderly, and not according to the doctrine which he received of us.

1 Timothy 1:6

Which some having missed turned away to vain discourse

1 Timothy 3:3

Not intoxicated, not a quarrelsome person, not occupied in sordid gain; but equitable, without fighting, exempt from avarice;

1 Timothy 3:8

Deacons likewise grave, not speaking equivocally, not holding to much wine, not occupied in sordid gain;

1 Timothy 6:6

But devotion with contentment is great gain.

2 Timothy 3:5

Having a form of devotion, and having denied its power: and these renounce.

Titus 1:15-16

All things truly pure to the pure: and to the defiled and unbelieving nothing pure; but also their mind and consciousness are defiled.

Hebrews 3:12-13

See, brethren, lest there shall be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in removing away from the living God.

2 Peter 2:15

Having forsaken the straight way, they were led astray, having followed in the way of Balaam son of Bosor, who loved the reward of injustice;

2 John 1:8-10

Look to yourselves, lest we should destroy what things we have wrought, but we should receive a full reward.

Jude 1:11

Woe to them for they went in the way of Cain, and were poured out in the error of Balaam for a reward, and they were destroyed in the controversy of Core.

Revelation 18:3

For of the wrath of the wine of her fornication have all nations drunk, and the kings of the earth were debauched with her, and the wholesale merchants of the earth were rich from the power of her luxury.

Revelation 18:13

And cinnamon, and perfumes, and ointment, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and the finest wheat flour, and wheat, and cattle, and sheep, and of horses, and of chariots, and of bodies, and of souls of men,