1 Timothy 6:10
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10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, and in their eagerness to be rich some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pains.
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Proverbs 1:19
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- 1.19 Gk: Heb are the ways
1 Timothy 6:9
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9 But those who want to be rich fall into temptation and are trapped by many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.(A)
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Psalm 32:10
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10 Many are the torments of the wicked,
but steadfast love surrounds those who trust in the Lord.(A)
Titus 1:11
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11 they must be silenced, since they are upsetting whole families by teaching for sordid gain what it is not right to teach.(A)
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Proverbs 1:31
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31 therefore they shall eat the fruit of their way
and be sated with their own devices.(A)
Jude 11
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11 Woe to them! For they go the way of Cain and abandon themselves to Balaam’s error for the sake of gain and perish in Korah’s rebellion.(A)
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Matthew 23:13
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13 “But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you lock people out of the kingdom of heaven. For you do not go in yourselves, and when others are going in you stop them.[a](A)
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Isaiah 56:11
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11 The dogs have a mighty appetite;
they never have enough.
The shepherds also have no understanding;
they have all turned to their own way,
to their own gain, one and all.
2 Timothy 4:10
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10 for Demas, in love with this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica; Crescens has gone to Galatia,[a] Titus to Dalmatia.(A)
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- 4.10 Other ancient authorities read Gaul
Micah 3:11
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11 Its rulers give judgment for a bribe;
its priests teach for a price;
its prophets give oracles for money;
yet they lean upon the Lord and say,
“Surely the Lord is with us!
No harm shall come upon us.”(A)
Malachi 1:10
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10 Oh, that someone among you would shut the temple[a] doors, so that you would not kindle fire on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you, says the Lord of hosts, and I will not accept an offering from your hands.(A)
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- 1.10 Heb lacks temple
1 Timothy 6:21
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21 by professing it some have missed the mark as regards the faith.
Grace be with you.[a]
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- 6.21 The Greek word for you here is plural; in other ancient authorities it is singular. Other ancient authorities add Amen
1 Timothy 3:3
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3 not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, and not a lover of money.(A)
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Ezekiel 16:33
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33 Gifts are given to all prostitutes, but you gave your gifts to all your lovers, bribing them to come to you from all around for your prostitutions.(A)
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Jeremiah 5:27-28
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27 Like a cage full of birds,
their houses are full of treachery;
therefore they have become great and rich;(A)
28 they have grown fat and sleek.
They know no limits in deeds of wickedness;
they do not judge with justice
the cause of the orphan, to make it prosper,
and they do not defend the rights of the needy.(B)
Isaiah 1:23
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23 Your princes are rebels
and companions of thieves.
Everyone loves a bribe
and runs after gifts.
They do not defend the orphan,
and the widow’s cause does not come before them.(A)
Deuteronomy 16:19
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19 You must not distort justice; you must not show partiality; and you must not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and subverts the cause of those who are in the right.(A)
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2 Peter 2:7-8
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7 and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man greatly distressed by the debauchery of the lawless(A) 8 (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by their lawless deeds that he saw and heard),
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James 5:19
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19 My brothers and sisters, if anyone among you wanders from the truth[a] and is brought back by another,
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- 5.19 Other ancient authorities read from the way of truth
Acts 1:16-19
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16 “Brothers and sisters,[a] the scripture had to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit through David foretold concerning Judas, who became a guide for those who arrested Jesus,(A) 17 for he was numbered among us and was allotted his share in this ministry.”(B) 18 (Now this man acquired a field with the reward of his wickedness, and falling headlong, he burst open in the middle, and all his bowels gushed out.(C) 19 This became known to all the residents of Jerusalem, so that the field was called in their language Hakeldama, that is, Field of Blood.)
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- 1.16 Gk Men, brothers
Ezekiel 13:19
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19 You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, putting to death those who should not die and keeping alive those who should not live, by your lies to my people, who listen to lies.(A)
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2 Kings 5:27
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27 Therefore the skin disease of Naaman shall cling to you and to your descendants forever.” So he left his presence diseased, as white as snow.(A)
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2 Samuel 4:10-11
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10 when the one who told me, ‘See, Saul is dead,’ thought he was bringing good news, I seized him and killed him at Ziklag—this was the reward I gave him for his news.(A) 11 How much more, then, when wicked men have killed a righteous man on his bed in his own house! And now shall I not require his blood at your hand and destroy you from the earth?”(B)
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Judges 18:29-31
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29 They named the city Dan after their ancestor Dan, who was born to Israel, but the name of the city was formerly Laish.(A) 30 Then the Danites set up the idol for themselves. Jonathan son of Gershom son of Moses[a] and his sons were priests to the tribe of the Danites until the time the land went into captivity.(B) 31 So they maintained as their own Micah’s idol that he had made, as long as the house of God was at Shiloh.(C)
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- 18.30 Another reading is son of Manasseh
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