1 Timothy 6:5

False Teachers And The Love Of Money

⁴ he is conceited and understands nothing; but he has a morbid interest in controversial questions and disputes about words, which produce envy, strife, malicious talk, evil suspicions, ⁵ and constant friction between men of depraved mind and deprived of the truth, who imagine that godliness is a means of gain. ⁶ But godliness with contentment is itself great gain.

Knowledge of the Truth

Men of Corrupt Minds

2 Timothy 3:8

Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, rejected in regard to the faith.

Titus 1:11

They must be silenced, because they are upsetting whole families by teaching things they ought not to teach for the sake of sordid gain.

2 Peter 2:3

And in their greed they will exploit you with false words; from long ago their condemnation has not been idle, and their destruction has not been asleep.

Matthew 7:17-20

Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit.

Matthew 12:33

"Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree bad, and its fruit bad; for a tree is known by its fruit.

Matthew 21:13

And he said to them, "It is written, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer,' but you have made it a 'den of robbers.'"

Matthew 23:13

"But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men; for you neither enter yourselves, nor do you allow those who would enter to go in.

John 3:19-21

And this is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

Acts 8:18-20

Now when Simon saw that the Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles' hands, he offered them money,

Acts 19:24-28

For a man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver shrines of Artemis, brought no little business to the craftsmen.

Romans 16:17-18

I urge you, brethren, to take note of those who cause divisions and difficulties, contrary to the doctrine which you have learned; avoid them.

1 Corinthians 11:16

If anyone wants to be contentious, we have no other practice, nor do the churches of God.

Ephesians 4:17-19

Now this I affirm and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds,

2 Thessalonians 2:8-11

And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will slay with the breath of his mouth and destroy by the splendor of his coming.

2 Thessalonians 3:6

Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you keep away from every brother who is living in idleness and not according to the tradition which you received from us.

1 Timothy 1:6

For some men have wandered away from these things and turned aside to fruitless discussion,

1 Timothy 3:3

not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money.

1 Timothy 3:8

Deacons likewise must be men of dignity, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, and not fond of sordid gain;

1 Timothy 6:6

But godliness with contentment is itself great gain.

2 Timothy 3:5

holding a form of godliness but denying its power. Avoid such people.

Titus 1:15-16

To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are corrupted and unbelieving, nothing is pure, but both their minds and consciences are corrupted.

Hebrews 3:12-13

Take care, brethren, lest there be in any one of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.

2 Peter 2:15

Forsaking the right way, they have gone astray, having followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;

2 John 1:8-10

Watch yourselves, that you do not lose what you have worked for, but that you may receive a full reward.

Jude 1:11

Woe to them! For they have gone the way of Cain, and for the sake of gain they have rushed headlong into the Balaam's error, and perished in Korah's rebellion.

Revelation 18:3

For all nations have drunk the wine of her impure passion, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown rich with the wealth of her wantonness."

Revelation 18:13

cargoes of cinnamon and spice, of incense, myrrh and frankincense, of wine and olive oil, of fine flour and wheat; cattle and sheep; horses and chariots; and slaves and human souls.