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
hospitable, able to teach, not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of sordid gain, moderate, not quarrelsome,
Titus 1:11
who subvert whole families, teaching what they ought not, for shameful gain:
1 Peter 5:2
taking the episcopal charge of it, not by constraint, but willingly; not for shameful lucre, but with a ready mind:
And the prophets
Acts 8:18
And when Simon saw that the holy Spirit was given by the imposition of the hands of the apostles, he offered them money,
2 Peter 2:1
But there were indeed false prophets among the people of old, as there will be also among you false teachers, who will privately introduce pernicious heresies, denying even the Lord that bought them, and bringing upon themselves swift destruction,
Jude 1:11
Wo unto them; for they have gone in the way of Cain, and been carried away by Balaam's error, the love of lucre, and perished as in the contradiction of Korah.
Yet
Matthew 3:9
"We have Abraham for our father:" for I tell you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children to Abraham.
Romans 2:17
Behold thou art called a Jew, and restest on the law, and boastest in God,