1 Timothy 6:5

False Teachers And The Love Of Money

⁴ he is proud, knowing nothing. He is sick concerning doubts and arguments, from which comes envy, strife, evil speakings, evil suspicions, ⁵ meddling, of men whose minds have been corrupted and deprived of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness. Withdraw from such. ⁶ But godliness with contentment is great gain.

Knowledge of the Truth

Men of Corrupt Minds

2 Timothy 3:8

But as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so these also resist the truth, men of corrupt mind, reprobate concerning the faith.

Titus 1:11

whose mouth you must stop, who subvert whole houses, teaching things not right for the sake of ill gain.

2 Peter 2:3

And through covetousness they will use you for gain with well-turned words; for whom judgment from of old does not linger, and their destruction does not sleep.

2 Kings 5:20-27

And Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my master has spared Naaman the Syrian, in not receiving at his hand that which he brought. But, as Jehovah lives, I will run after him and take something from him.

Isaiah 56:11

Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough; and they are shepherds who cannot understand. They all look to their own way, every one for his gain, to his own end.

Jeremiah 6:13

For everyone from the least of them even to the greatest of them cuts off a profit; and from the prophet even to the priest everyone deals falsely.

Jeremiah 8:10

Therefore I will give their wives to others, and their fields to those who shall inherit them, for everyone from the least even to the greatest cuts off a profit. From the prophet even to the priest everyone deals falsely.

Ezekiel 33:31

And they come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as My people, and they hear your words. But they will not do them. For with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their unjust gain.

Matthew 7:17-20

Even so every good tree brings forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree brings forth evil fruit.

Matthew 12:33

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

Matthew 21:13

And He said to them, It is written, "My house shall be called the house of prayer"; but you have made it a den of thieves.

Matthew 23:13

But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of Heaven against men. For you neither go in, nor do you allow those entering to go in.

John 3:19-21

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

Acts 8:18-20

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

Acts 19:24-28

For a certain silversmith named Demetrius was making silver temples of Artemis, providing not a little trade for the craftsmen.

Romans 16:17-18

And I exhort you, brothers, to watch those making divisions and offenses contrary to the doctrine which you have learned, and avoid them.

1 Corinthians 11:16

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

Ephesians 4:17-19

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should not walk from now on as other nations walk, in the vanity of their mind,

2 Thessalonians 2:8-11

And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the breath of His mouth and shall destroy with the brightness of His coming,

2 Thessalonians 3:6

Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks disorderly, and not after the teaching which he received from us.

1 Timothy 1:6

from which some, having swerved, have turned aside to foolish talking,

1 Timothy 3:3

not a drunkard, not contentious, not greedy of ill gain, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous,

1 Timothy 3:8

Likewise the deacons are to be reverent, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of ill gain,

1 Timothy 6:6

But godliness with contentment is great gain.

2 Timothy 3:5

having a form of godliness, but denying the power of it; even turn away from these.

Titus 1:15-16

To the pure all things are pure. But to those who are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure, but even their mind and conscience is defiled.

Hebrews 3:12-13

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

2 Peter 2:15

who have forsaken the right way and have 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, so that we may not lose those things which we worked out, but that we may receive a full reward.

Jude 1:11

Woe to them! For they went the way of Cain, and gave themselves up to the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Korah.

Revelation 18:3

because of the wine of the anger of her fornication which all the nations have drunk. And the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her. And the merchants of the earth became rich from the power of her luxury.

Revelation 18:13

and cinnamon, and incenses, and ointment, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men.