Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us.
And the priests
And the prophets
Bible References
And the priests
1 Timothy 3:3
not a wine-drinker, not a quarrelsome man, but gentle, not contentious, not avaricious,
Titus 1:11
whom it is necessary to silence, who mislead whole families, teaching for base gain what they ought not.
1 Peter 5:2
feed the flock of God which is among you, not by constraint but willingly, not for base gain but of a ready mind,
And the prophets
Acts 8:18
And Simon seeing that the Holy Spirit was given by the imposition of the hands of the apostles, offered them money,
2 Peter 2:1
But there were also false prophets among the people, as there shall also be false teachers among you, who shall bring in by stealth destructive heresies, even denying the master that bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction;
Jude 1:11
Woe to them; for they have gone in the way of Cain, and rushed into the error of Balaam for a reward, and perished in the contradiction of Korah.
Yet
Matthew 3:9
and think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham for a father; for I tell you that God is able of these stones to raise up children to Abraham;
Romans 2:17
But [what] if you are called a Jew and rest on the law, and boast of God,