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2 Timothy 3 5
holding to the form of godliness but denying its power. Avoid these people!
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Titus 1:11
It is necessary to silence them; they overthrow whole households by teaching what they shouldn’t in order to get money dishonestly.
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2 Peter 2 3
They will exploit you in their greed with deceptive words. Their condemnation, pronounced long ago, is not idle, and their destruction does not sleep.
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2 Timothy 3 8
Just as Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so these also resist the truth, men who are corrupt in mind, worthless in regard to the faith.
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1 Timothy 3 3
not addicted to wine, not a bully but gentle, not quarrelsome, not greedy—
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1 Timothy 6 6
But godliness with contentment is a great gain.
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Titus 1:15-16
To the pure, everything is pure, but to those who are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; in fact, both their mind and conscience are defiled.They profess to know God, but they deny Him by their works. They are detestable, disobedient, and disqualified for any good work.
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Romans 16:17-18
Now I urge you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause dissensions and obstacles contrary to the doctrine you have learned. Avoid them,for such people do not serve our Lord Christ but their own appetites. They deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting with smooth talk and flattering words.
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Jude 1:11
Woe to them! For they have traveled in the way of Cain, have abandoned themselves to the error of Balaam for profit, and have perished in Korah’s rebellion.
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Revelation 18:3
For all the nations have drunk the wine of her sexual immorality, which brings wrath. The kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown wealthy from her excessive luxury.
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2 Thessalonians 3 6
Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to keep away from every brother who walks irresponsibly and not according to the tradition received from us.
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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.
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1 Timothy 3 8
Deacons, likewise, should be worthy of respect, not hypocritical, not drinking a lot of wine, not greedy for money,
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2John 1:8-10
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Hebrews 3:12-13
Watch out, brothers, so that there won’t be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart that departs from the living God.But encourage each other daily, while it is still called today, so that none of you is hardened by sin’s deception.
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1 Timothy 1 6
Some have deviated from these and turned aside to fruitless discussion.
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Matthew 7:17-20
In the same way, every good tree produces good fruit, but a bad tree produces bad fruit.A good tree can’t produce bad fruit; neither can a bad tree produce good fruit.Every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.So you’ll recognize them by their fruit.
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Matthew 23:13
“ But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You lock up the kingdom of heaven from people. For you don’t go in, and you don’t allow those entering to go in.
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Matthew 21:13
And He said to them,“ It is written, My house will be called a house of prayer. But you are making it a den of thieves!”
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John 3:19-21
“ This, then, is the judgment: The light has come into the world, and people loved darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil.For everyone who practices wicked things hates the light and avoids it, so that his deeds may not be exposed.But anyone who lives by the truth comes to the light, so that his works may be shown to be accomplished by God.”
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Acts 8:18-20
When Simon saw that the Holy Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles’ hands, he offered them money,saying,“ Give me this power too, so that anyone I lay hands on may receive the Holy Spirit.”But Peter told him,“ May your silver be destroyed with you, because you thought the gift of God could be obtained with money!
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Jeremiah 8:10
Therefore, I will give their wives to other men, their fields to new occupants, for from the least to the greatest, everyone is making profit dishonestly. From prophet to priest, everyone deals falsely.
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2 Thessalonians 2 8-2 Thessalonians 2 11
and then the lawless one will be revealed. The Lord Jesus will destroy him with the breath of His mouth and will bring him to nothing with the brightness of His coming.The coming of the lawless one is based on Satan’s working, with all kinds of false miracles, signs, and wonders,and with every unrighteous deception among those who are perishing. They perish because they did not accept the love of the truth in order to be saved.For this reason God sends them a strong delusion so that they will believe what is false,
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2 Kings 5 20-2 Kings 5 27
Gehazi, the attendant of Elisha the man of God, thought: My master has let this Aramean Naaman off lightly by not accepting from him what he brought. As the Lord lives, I will run after him and get something from him.So Gehazi pursued Naaman. When Naaman saw someone running after him, he got down from the chariot to meet him and asked,“ Is everything all right?”Gehazi said,“ It’s all right. My master has sent me to say,‘ I have just now discovered that two young men from the sons of the prophets have come to me from the hill country of Ephraim. Please give them 75 pounds of silver and two changes of clothes.’”But Naaman insisted,“ Please, accept 150 pounds.” He urged Gehazi and then packed 150 pounds of silver in two bags with two changes of clothes. Naaman gave them to two of his young men who carried them ahead of Gehazi.When Gehazi came to the hill, he took the gifts from them and stored them in the house. Then he dismissed the men, and they left.Gehazi came and stood by his master.“ Where did you go, Gehazi?” Elisha asked him.“ Your servant didn’t go anywhere,” he replied.But Elisha questioned him,“ Wasn’t my spirit there when the man got down from his chariot to meet you? Is it a time to accept money and clothes, olive orchards and vineyards, sheep and oxen, and male and female slaves?Therefore, Naaman’s skin disease will cling to you and your descendants forever.” So Gehazi went out from his presence diseased— white as snow.
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Acts 19:24-28
For a person named Demetrius, a silversmith who made silver shrines of Artemis, provided a great deal of business for the craftsmen.When he had assembled them, as well as the workers engaged in this type of business, he said:“ Men, you know that our prosperity is derived from this business.You both see and hear that not only in Ephesus, but in almost all of Asia, this man Paul has persuaded and misled a considerable number of people by saying that gods made by hand are not gods!So not only do we run a risk that our business may be discredited, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis may be despised and her magnificence come to the verge of ruin— the very one all of Asia and the world adore.”When they had heard this, they were filled with rage and began to cry out,“ Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”
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Jeremiah 6:13
For from the least to the greatest of them, everyone is making profit dishonestly. From prophet to priest, everyone deals falsely.
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Isaiah 56:11
These dogs have fierce appetites; they never have enough. And they are shepherds who have no discernment; all of them turn to their own way, every last one for his own gain.
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Ephesians 4:17-19
Therefore, I say this and testify in the Lord: You should no longer walk as the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their thoughts.They are darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them and because of the hardness of their hearts.They became callous and gave themselves over to promiscuity for the practice of every kind of impurity with a desire for more and more.
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2 Peter 2 15
They have gone astray by abandoning the straight path and have followed the path of Balaam, the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness
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Ezekiel 33:31
So My people come to you in crowds, sit in front of you, and hear your words, but they don’t obey them. Although they express love with their mouths, their hearts pursue dishonest profit.
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Revelation 18:13
cinnamon, spice, incense, myrrh, and frankincense; wine, olive oil, fine wheat flour, and grain; cattle and sheep; horses and carriages; and slaves and human lives.
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1 Corinthians 11 16
But if anyone wants to argue about this, we have no other custom, nor do the churches of God.