1 Timothy 6:5

False Teachers And The Love Of Money

⁴ he is puffed up and knoweth nothing: but wasteth his brains about questions, and strife of words, whereof spring envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings ⁵ and vain disputations of men with corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, which think that lucre is godliness. From such, separate thyself. ⁶ Godliness is great riches, if a man be content with that he hath.

Knowledge of the Truth

Men of Corrupt Minds

2 Timothy 3:8

As Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, even so do these resist the truth, men they are of corrupt minds, and lewd as concerning the faith:

Titus 1:11

whose mouths must be stopped, which pervert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, because of filthy lucre.

2 Peter 2:3

and through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you, whose judgment is not far off, and their damnation sleepeth not.

2 Kings 5:20-27

And when he was departed from him a furlong of ground, Gehazi the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, "Behold, my master hath spared Naaman, this Syrian, so that he hath not taken from him that which he brought! As surely as the LORD liveth, I will run after him and take somewhat."

Isaiah 56:11

They are shameless dogs, that be never satisfied. The shepherds also in like manner have no understanding, but every man turneth his own way, everyone after his own covetousness, with all his power.

Jeremiah 6:13

"For from the least unto the most, they hang all upon covetousness: and from the prophet unto the priest, they go all about with falsity and lies.

Jeremiah 8:10

Wherefore, I will give their wives unto aliens, and their fields to destroyers. For from the lowest to the highest, they follow all filthy lucre: and from the Prophet unto the priest, they deal all with lies.

Ezekiel 33:31

These come unto thee, after the manner of a great people: yea, my people sit down before thee, and hear thy words, but they do not thereafter: for in their mouths they show themselves, as though they were fervent, but their heart goeth after their own covetous lucre.

Matthew 7:17-20

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

Matthew 12:33

Either make the tree good, and his fruit good also, or else make the tree evil, and his fruit evil also. For the tree is known by his fruit.

Matthew 21:13

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

Matthew 23:13

Woe be unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven before men: ye yourselves go not in, neither suffer ye them that come to enter in.

John 3:19-21

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

Acts 8:18-20

When Simon saw that through laying on of the apostles' hands on them, the holy ghost was given: he offered them money, saying,

Acts 19:24-28

For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith which made silver shrines for Diana, was not a little beneficial unto the craftsmen:

Romans 16:17-18

I beseech you, brethren: mark them which cause division, and give occasions of evil contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.

1 Corinthians 11:16

If there be any man among you that lusteth to strife, let him know that we have no such customs, neither the congregations of God.

Ephesians 4:17-19

This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other gentiles walk; in vanity of their mind,

2 Thessalonians 2:8-11

and then shall that wicked be uttered, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the appearance of his coming,

2 Thessalonians 3:6

We require you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh inordinately, and not after the institution which ye received of us.

1 Timothy 1:6

from the which things, some have erred, and have turned unto vain jangling,

1 Timothy 3:3

not drunken, no fighter, not given to filthy lucre: but gentle, abhorring fighting, abhorring covetousness,

1 Timothy 3:8

Likewise must the deacons be honest, not double tongued, not given unto much drinking, neither unto filthy lucre:

1 Timothy 6:6

Godliness is great riches, if a man be content with that he hath.

2 Timothy 3:5

having a similitude of godly living, but have denied the power thereof. Such abhor.

Titus 1:15-16

Unto the pure, are all things pure: but unto them that are defiled, and unbelieving, is nothing pure: but even the very minds and consciences of them are defiled.

Hebrews 3:12-13

Take heed, brethren, that there be in none of you an evil heart, in unbelief, that he should depart from the living God:

2 Peter 2:15

and have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, which loved the reward of unrighteousness:

2 John 1:8-10

Look on yourselves, that we lose not that we have wrought: but that we may have a full reward.

Jude 1:11

Woe be unto them, for they have followed the way of Cain, and are utterly given to the error of Balaam for lucre's sake, and are cast away in the treason of Korah.

Revelation 18:3

for all nations have drunken of the wine of the wrath of her fornication. And the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and her merchants are waxed rich of the abundance of her pleasures."

Revelation 18:13

and cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and bodies; and souls of men.