1 Timothy 6:9

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.

They

Many

Mark 4:19

Ephesians 4:22

1 John 2:15

Which

2 Peter 2:3

General references

Bible References

They

And Lot, lifting up his eyes and looking an the valley of Jordan, saw that it was well watered everywhere, before the Lord had sent destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah; it was like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, on the way to Zoar.

For I will give you a place of very great honour, and whatever you say to me I will do; so come, in answer to my prayer, and put a curse on this people.

Israel has done wrong, sinning against the agreement which I made with them: they have even taken of the cursed thing; acting falsely like thieves they have put it among their goods.

But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha, the man of God, said, Now my master has taken nothing from Naaman, this Aramaean, of what he would have given him: by the living Lord, I will go after him and get something from him.

He whose desires are fixed on profit is a cause of trouble to his family; but he who has no desire for offerings will have life.

A heritage may be got quickly at first, but the end of it will not be a blessing.

He who gets stores of wealth by a false tongue, is going after what is only breath, and searching for death.

He who is cruel to the poor for the purpose of increasing his profit, and he who gives to the man of wealth, will only come to be in need.

A man of good faith will have great blessing, but one attempting to get wealth quickly will not go free from punishment.

Cursed are those who are joining house to house, and putting field to field, till there is no more living-space for any but themselves in all the land!

As for Canaan, the scales of deceit are in his hands; he takes pleasure in twisted ways.

Give ear to this, you who are crushing the poor, and whose purpose is to put an end to those who are in need in the land,

Whose owners put them to death and have no sense of sin; and those who get a price for them say, May the Lord be praised for I have much wealth: and the keepers of the flock have no pity for them.

And that which was dropped among the thorns, this is he who has the word; and the cares of this life, and the deceits of wealth, put a stop to the growth of the word and it gives no fruit.

But hearing these words the young man went away sorrowing: for he had much property.

What will you give me, if I give him up to you? And the price was fixed at thirty bits of silver.

Come now, you men of wealth, give yourselves to weeping and crying because of the bitter troubles which are coming to you.

Turning out of the true way, they have gone wandering in error, after the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who was pleased to take payment for wrongdoing;

A curse on them! They have gone in the way of Cain, running uncontrolled into the error of Balaam for reward, and have come to destruction by saying evil against the Lord, like Korah.

Many

And the cares of this life, and the deceits of wealth, and the desire for other things coming in, put a stop to the growth of the word, and it gives no fruit.

That you are to put away, in relation to your earlier way of life, the old man, which has become evil by love of deceit;

Have no love for the world or for the things which are in the world. If any man has love for the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Which

With the knowledge that the law is made, not for the upright man, but for those who have no respect for law and order, for evil men and sinners, for the unholy and those who have no religion, for those who put their fathers or mothers to death, for takers of life,

They put the kings of Midian to death with the rest, Evi and Reken and Zur and Hur and Reba, the five kings of Midian: and Balaam, the son of Beor, they put to death with the sword.

Then Joshua and all Israel took Achan, the son of Zerah, and the silver and the robe and the mass of gold, and his sons and his daughters and his oxen and his asses and his sheep and his tent and everything he had; and they took them up into the valley of Achor.

Then Judas, who was false to him, seeing that he was to be put to death, in his regret took back the thirty bits of silver to the chief priests and those in authority,

While you had it, was it not your property? and after you had given it in exchange, was it not still in your power? how has this purpose come into your mind? you have been false, not to men, but to God.

But Peter said, May your money come to destruction with you, because you had the idea that what is freely given by God may be got for a price.

And in their desire for profit they will come to you with words of deceit, like traders doing business in souls: whose punishment has been ready for a long time and their destruction is watching for them.

General references

So that the land was not wide enough for the two of them: their property was so great that there was not room for them together.

Then will not their cattle and their goods and all their beasts be ours? so let us come to an agreement with them so that they may go on living with us.

So take your rest here this night, till I have knowledge what more the Lord has to say to me.

Or let your desire be turned to your neighbour's wife, or his house or his field or his man-servant or his woman-servant or his ox or his ass or anything which is your neighbour's.

For what is the hope of the sinner when he is cut off, when God takes back his soul?

Goods of great price will be ours, our houses will be full of wealth;

Make no store of wealth for yourselves on earth, where it may be turned to dust by worms and weather, and where thieves may come in by force and take it away.

And some went among the thorns, and the thorns came up, and it had no room for growth and gave no fruit.