1 Timothy 6:5

Catholic Public Domain Version

the conflicts of men who have been corrupted in mind and deprived of truth, who consider profit to be piety.

Cross References

Isaiah 56:11

And these very imprudent dogs have never known satisfaction. The shepherds themselves do not know understanding. All have turned aside in their own way, each one to his own avarice, from the highest even to the least:

Jeremiah 6:13

Certainly, from the least of them even to the greatest, all of them practice greed. And from the prophet even to the priest, all of them act with deceit.

Jeremiah 8:10

Because of this, I will give their wives to outsiders and their fields to others as an inheritance. For from the least, even to the greatest, they all pursue avarice; from the prophet, even to the priest, they all act with deceit.

Ezekiel 33:31

And they come to you, as if the people were entering, and my people sit before you. And they listen to your words, but they do not do them. For they turn them into a song for their mouth, but their heart pursues their own avarice.

Matthew 12:33

Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree evil and its fruit evil. For certainly 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 into a den of robbers.' "

Matthew 23:13

So then: Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! For you close the kingdom of heaven before men. For you yourselves do not enter, and those who are entering, you would not permit to enter.

1 Corinthians 11:16

But if anyone has a mind to be contentious, we have no such custom, nor does the Church of God.

2 Thessalonians 3:6

But we strongly caution you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to draw yourselves away from every brother who is walking in disorder and not according to the tradition that they received from us.

1 Timothy 1:6

Certain persons, wandering away from these things, have been turned aside to empty babbling,

1 Timothy 3:3

not a drunkard, not combative but restrained, not quarrelsome, not covetous;

1 Timothy 3:8

Similarly, deacons must be chaste, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not pursuing tainted profit,

1 Timothy 4:7

But avoid the silly fables of old women. And exercise yourself so as to advance in piety.

1 Timothy 4:8

For the exercise of the body is somewhat useful. But piety is useful in all things, holding the promise of life, in the present and in the future.

1 Timothy 6:6

But piety with sufficiency is great gain.

2 Timothy 3:5

even having the appearance of piety while rejecting its virtue. And so, avoid them.

2 Timothy 3:8

And in the same manner that Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so also will these resist the truth, men corrupted in mind, reprobates from the faith.

Titus 1:11

These must be reproved, for they subvert entire houses, teaching things which should not be taught, for the favor of shameful gain.

2 Peter 2:15

Abandoning the straight path, they wandered astray, having followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved the wages of iniquity.

2 Peter 2:3

And in avarice, they will negotiate about you with false words. Their judgment, in the near future, is not delayed, and their perdition does not sleep.

Jude 1:11

Woe to them! For they have gone after the way of Cain, and they have poured out the error of Balaam for profit, and they have perished in the sedition of Korah.

Revelation 18:13

and of cinnamon and black cardamom, and of fragrances and ointments and incense, and of wine and oil and fine flour and wheat, and of beasts of burden and sheep and horses and four-wheeled wagons, and of slaves and the souls of men.

Revelation 18:3

For all the nations have imbibed the wine of the wrath of her fornication. And the kings of the earth have fornicated with her. And the merchants of the earth have become wealthy by the power of her pleasures."