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 given to wine, no striker, not desirous of filthy gain, but gentle, patient, not loving money;
Titus 1:11
Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole families, teaching things which they ought not, for the sake of filthy gain.
1 Peter 5:2
Feed the flock of God which is among you, overseeing it not by constraint, but willingly, not for filthy gain, but of a ready mind,
And the prophets
Acts 8:18
And Simon seeing that thro' laying on of the hands of the apostles the Holy Ghost was given,
2 Peter 2:1
But there were false prophets also among the people, as there shall likewise be false teachers among you, who will privily bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
Jude 1:11
Wo to them; for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Korah.
Yet
Matthew 3:9
And say not within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father; for I say to you, God is able of these stones to raise up children to Abraham.
Romans 2:17
Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law,