1 Timothy 6:10
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10 For the love of money is a root of (A)all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.
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Proverbs 1:19
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19 (A)Such are the ways of everyone who is (B)greedy for unjust gain;
(C)it takes away the life of its possessors.
1 Timothy 6:9
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9 But (A)those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, (B)into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that (C)plunge people into ruin and destruction.
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Psalm 32:10
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10 (A)Many are the sorrows of the wicked,
but steadfast love surrounds the one who (B)trusts in the Lord.
Titus 1:11
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11 They must be silenced, since (A)they are upsetting whole families by teaching (B)for shameful gain what they ought not to teach.
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Proverbs 1:31
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Jude 11
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11 Woe to them! For they walked in (A)the way of Cain and abandoned themselves for the sake of gain (B)to Balaam's error and (C)perished in Korah's rebellion.
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Matthew 23:13
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13 “But woe (A)to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you (B)shut the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. For you (C)neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in.[a]
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- Matthew 23:13 Some manuscripts add here (or after verse 12) verse 14: Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows' houses and for a pretense you make long prayers; therefore you will receive the greater condemnation
Isaiah 56:11
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11 (A)The dogs have a mighty appetite;
they never have enough.
But (B)they are shepherds who have no understanding;
they have all turned to their own way,
(C)each to his own gain, one and all.
2 Timothy 4:10
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10 For (A)Demas, (B)in love with (C)this present world, (D)has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia,[a] (E)Titus to Dalmatia.
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- 2 Timothy 4:10 Some manuscripts Gaul
Malachi 1:10
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10 (A)Oh that there were one among you who would shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you, says the Lord of hosts, (B)and I will not accept an offering from your hand.
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1 Timothy 6:21
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21 for by professing it some have swerved from the faith.
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- 1 Timothy 6:21 The Greek for you is plural
1 Timothy 3:3
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3 not a drunkard, not violent but (A)gentle, not quarrelsome, (B)not a lover of money.
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Ezekiel 16:33
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33 Men give gifts to all prostitutes, (A)but you gave your gifts to all your lovers, bribing them to come to you from every side with your whorings.
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Jeremiah 5:27-28
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27 Like a cage full of birds,
their houses are full of deceit;
therefore they have become great and rich;
28 (A)they have grown fat and sleek.
They know no bounds in deeds of evil;
(B)they judge not with justice
the cause of the fatherless, to make it prosper,
and they do not defend the rights of the needy.
Isaiah 1:23
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23 Your princes are rebels
and companions of thieves.
Everyone (A)loves a bribe
and runs after gifts.
(B)They do not bring justice to the fatherless,
and the widow's cause does not come to them.
Deuteronomy 16:19
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19 (A)You shall not pervert justice. (B)You shall not show partiality, (C)and you shall not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and subverts the cause of the righteous.
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2 Peter 2:7-8
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7 and (A)if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked 8 (for as that righteous man lived among them day after day, (B)he was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard);
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James 5:19
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19 My brothers, (A)if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone (B)brings him back,
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Acts 1:16-19
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16 “Brothers, (A)the Scripture had to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke beforehand by the mouth of David concerning Judas, (B)who became a guide to those who arrested Jesus. 17 For (C)he was numbered among us and was allotted his share in (D)this ministry.” 18 (Now this man (E)acquired a field with (F)the reward of his wickedness, and falling headlong[a] he burst open in the middle and all his bowels gushed out. 19 And it became known to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the field was called (G)in their own language Akeldama, that is, Field of Blood.)
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- Acts 1:18 Or swelling up
Ezekiel 13:19
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19 You have profaned me among my people (A)for handfuls of barley (B)and for pieces of bread, putting to death souls who should not die and keeping alive souls who should not live, by your lying to my people, who listen to lies.
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2 Kings 5:27
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27 Therefore the leprosy of Naaman shall cling to you and to your descendants forever.” So he went out from his presence (A)a leper, like snow.
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2 Samuel 4:10-11
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10 (A)when one told me, ‘Behold, Saul is dead,’ and thought he was bringing good news, (B)I seized him and killed him at Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his news. 11 How much more, when wicked men have killed a righteous man in his own house on his bed, shall I not now (C)require his blood at your hand and destroy you from the earth?”
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Judges 18:29-31
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29 And they named the city (A)Dan, after the name of Dan their ancestor, who was born to Israel; but (B)the name of the city was Laish at the first. 30 And the people of Dan set up the carved image for themselves, and Jonathan the son of Gershom, (C)son of Moses,[a] (D)and his sons were priests to the tribe of the Danites until the day (E)of the captivity of the land. 31 So they set up Micah's carved image that he made, (F)as long as the house of God was at Shiloh.
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- Judges 18:30 Or Manasseh
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