Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Mammon
General references
Bible References
Mammon
Luke 16:9 And I tell you [learn from this], make friends for yourselves [for eternity] by means of the wealth of unrighteousness [that is, use material resources as a way to further the work of God], so that when it runs out, they will welcome you into the eternal dwellings.
1 Timothy 6:9
But those who [are not financially ethical and] crave to get rich [with a compulsive, greedy longing for wealth] fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction [leading to personal misery].
General references
Leviticus 11:20
‘All winged insects that walk on all fours are detestable to you;
James 1:8
being a double-minded man, unstable and restless in all his ways [in everything he thinks, feels, or decides].