1 Timothy 6:5

False Teachers And The Love Of Money

⁴ is puffed up with conceit, not really knowing anything, but having a morbid craving for discussions and arguments. Such things only give rise to envy, quarreling, recriminations, base suspicions, ⁵ and incessant wrangling on the part of these corrupt-minded people who have lost all hold on the Truth, and who think of religion only as a source of gain. ⁶ And a great source of gain religion is, when it brings contentment with it!

Knowledge of the Truth

Men of Corrupt Minds

2 Timothy 3:8

Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so do these people, in their turn, oppose the Truth. Their minds are corrupted, and, as regards the Faith, they are utterly worthless.

Titus 1:11

whose mouths ought to be stopped; for they upset whole households by teaching what they ought not to teach, merely to make questionable gains.

2 Peter 2:3

In their covetousness they will try to make you a source of profit by their fabrications; but for a long time past their Sentence has not been standing idle, nor their Ruin slumbering.

Matthew 7:17-20

So, too, every sound tree bears good fruit, while a worthless tree bears bad fruit.

Matthew 12:33

You must assume either that both tree and fruit are good, or that both tree and fruit are worthless; since it is by it's fruits that a tree is known.

Matthew 21:13

And said to them: "Scripture says??My House shall be called a house of prayer'; but you are making it 'a den of robbers.'"

Matthew 23:13

But alas for you, Teachers of the Law and Pharisees, hypocrites that you are! You turn the key of the Kingdom of Heaven in men's faces. For you do not go in yourselves, nor yet allow those who try to go in to do so.

John 3:19-21

The ground of his condemnation is this, that though the Light has come into the world, men preferred the darkness to the Light, because their actions were wicked.

Acts 8:18-20

When Simon saw that it was through the placing of the Apostles' hands on them that the Spirit was given, he brought them a sum of money and said:

Acts 19:24-28

A silversmith named Demetrius, who made silver models of the shrine of Artemis, and so gave a great deal of work to the artisans,

Romans 16:17-18

I urge you, Brothers, to be on your guard against people who, by disregarding the teaching which you received, cause divisions and create difficulties; dissociate yourselves from them.

1 Corinthians 11:16

If, however, any one still thinks it right to contest the point-well, we have no such custom, nor have the Churches of God.

Ephesians 4:17-19

This, then, as one in union with the Lord, I say to you and urge upon you: Do not continue to live such purposeless lives as the Gentiles live,

2 Thessalonians 2:8-11

Then will 'Wickedness Incarnate' appear, but the Lord Jesus will destroy him with the breath of his lips, and annihilate him by the splendor of his Coming.

2 Thessalonians 3:6

We urge you, Brothers, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, to avoid any Brother who is living an ill-ordered life, which is not in agreement with the teaching that you received from us.

1 Timothy 1:6

And it is because they have not aimed at these things that the attention of certain people has been diverted to unprofitable subjects.

1 Timothy 3:3

not addicted to drink or brawling, but of a forbearing and peaceable disposition, and not a lover of money;

1 Timothy 3:8

So, too, Assistant-Officers should be serious and straightforward men, not given to taking much drink or to questionable money-making,

1 Timothy 6:6

And a great source of gain religion is, when it brings contentment with it!

2 Timothy 3:5

and while they retain the outward form of religion, they will not allow it to influence them. Turn your back on such men as these.

Titus 1:15-16

Everything is pure to the pure-minded, but to those whose minds are polluted and who are unbelievers nothing is pure. Their minds and consciences are alike polluted.

Hebrews 3:12-13

Be careful, Brothers, that there is never found in any one of you a wicked and faithless heart, shown by his separating himself from the Living God.

2 Peter 2:15

Leaving the straight road, they have gone astray and followed in the steps of Balaam, the son of Beor, who set his heart on the reward for wrong-doing,

2 John 1:8-10

Take care that you do not lose the fruit of all our work; rather, reap the benefit of it in full.

Jude 1:11

Alas for them! They walk in the steps of Cain; led astray by Balaam's love of gain, they plunge into sin, and meet their ruin through rebellion like that of Korah.

Revelation 18:3

For, after drinking the maddening wine of her licentiousness, all the nations have fallen; while all the kings of the earth have had licentious intercourse with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown rich through the excess of her luxury.'

Revelation 18:13

nor their cinnamon, or spice, or incense, or perfumes. or frankincense, or wine, or oil, or fine flour, or wheat, or cattle, or sheep; nor their horses, or chariots, or slaves; nor the bodies and souls of men.