1 Timothy 6:5

False Teachers And The Love Of Money

⁴ he is a conceited ignoramus with a morbid appetite for discussions and controversies which lead to envy, quarreling, abuse, base suspicions, ⁵ and perpetual friction between people who are depraved in mind and deprived of truth, who imagine that religion is only a means of gain. ⁶ Now the fact is, religion with contentment is a means of great gain.

Knowledge of the Truth

Men of Corrupt Minds

2 Timothy 3:8

Just as Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, these people resist the truth, for they are depraved in mind and so counterfeits in the faith.

Titus 1:11

whose mouths must be stopped, for they upset whole families by teaching things they ought not to think, for the sake of dishonest gain.

2 Peter 2:3

In their greed they will exploit you with messages manufactured by themselves. From of old their condemnation has not been idle and their destruction has not been slumbering.

Matthew 7:17-20

So any healthy tree bears good fruit and a sickly tree bears poor fruit.

Matthew 12:33

"You must either make the tree healthy and its fruits healthy or make the tree sickly and its fruits sickly, for a tree is judged by its fruit.

Matthew 21:13

and said to them, "The Scripture says, 'My house must be called a house of prayer,' but you have made it a cave for robbers."

Matthew 23:13

"A curse on you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees! For you bolt the doors of the kingdom of heaven in men's faces, for you neither go in yourselves, nor do you let those who are trying to do so go in.

John 3:19-21

And the ground for the sentence is this, that the light has come into the world, and yet, because their actions were evil, men have loved darkness more than the light.

Acts 8:18-20

So when Simon saw that the Holy Spirit was conferred by the laying on of the apostles' hands, he offered them money,

Acts 19:24-28

A silversmith named Demetrius, by manufacturing silver shrines of Artemis, was bringing in great profits to his workmen.

Romans 16:17-18

But I beg you, brothers, to keep on the lookout for those who stir up divisions and put hindrances in your way, in opposition to the instruction that you had, and always avoid them.

1 Corinthians 11:16

But if anyone is inclined to be contentious about it, I for my part prescribe no other practice than this, and neither do the churches of God.

Ephesians 4:17-19

So I mean this and now testify to it in the name of the Lord: You must now stop living as the heathen usually do, in the frivolity of their minds,

2 Thessalonians 2:8-11

Then the representative of lawlessness will be uncovered, and the Lord Jesus will destroy him with the breath of His mouth and put a stop to his operations by His appearance and coming;

2 Thessalonians 3:6

Now we charge you, brothers, on the authority of the Lord Jesus Christ, to hold yourselves aloof from any brother who is living as a shirker instead of following the teachings you received from us.

1 Timothy 1:6

Some people have stepped aside from these things and turned to fruitless talking.

1 Timothy 3:3

not addicted to strong drink, not pugnacious, gentle and not contentious, not avaricious,

1 Timothy 3:8

Deacons, too, must be serious, sincere in their talk, not addicted to strong drink or dishonest gain,

1 Timothy 6:6

Now the fact is, religion with contentment is a means of great gain.

2 Timothy 3:5

keeping up the forms of religion but not giving expression to its power. Avoid such people.

Titus 1:15-16

To the pure everything is pure, but to the impure and unbelieving nothing is pure, but their very minds and consciences are impure.

Hebrews 3:12-13

See to it, my brothers, that no wicked, unbelieving heart is found in any of you, as shown by your turning away from the ever-living God,

2 Peter 2:15

They have left the straight road and gone astray. They have followed the road that Balaam, the son of Beor, trod, who fell in love with the profits of wrongdoing

2 John 1:8-10

Look out for yourselves, so as not to lose what we have worked for, but so as to get your full reward.

Jude 1:11

Alas for them, because they have trod the road that Cain did; for gain they have rushed into Balaam's error and have perished in rebellion like that of Korah!

Revelation 18:3

because all the nations have fallen by drinking the raging wine of her immorality; the kings of the earth have joined her in her immorality, and the businessmen of the earth have grown rich from the wealth of her luxury."

Revelation 18:13

cinnamon, spices, incense, perfume, frankincense, wine, oil, fine flour, wheat, cattle, sheep, horses, carriages, slaves, and the lives of human beings.