1 Timothy 6:10

New American Bible - revised edition

For the love of money is the root of all evils, and some people in their desire for it have strayed from the faith and have pierced themselves with many pains. Exhortations to Timothy.

Cross References

Genesis 29:14

and Laban said to him, “You are indeed my bone and my flesh.” Marriage to Leah and Rachel. After Jacob had stayed with him a full month,

Genesis 29:26

Laban replied, “It is not the custom in our country to give the younger daughter before the firstborn.

Genesis 34:27

Then the other sons of Jacob followed up the slaughter and sacked the city because their sister had been defiled.

Genesis 38:16

So he went over to her at the roadside and said, “Come, let me have intercourse with you,” for he did not realize that she was his daughter-in-law. She replied, “What will you pay me for letting you have intercourse with me?”

1 Kings 2:40

So Shimei rose, saddled his donkey, and went to Achish in Gath in search of his servants; and Shimei returned from Gath with his servants.

2 Kings 5:27

The leprosy of Naaman shall cling to you and your descendants forever.” And Gehazi went out, a leper with skin like snow.

Psalm 32:10

Many are the sorrows of the wicked one, but mercy surrounds the one who trusts in the Lord.

Psalm 62:10

Mortals are a mere breath, the sons of man but an illusion; On a balance they rise; together they weigh nothing.

Proverbs 1:19

This is the way of everyone greedy for loot: it takes away their lives.

Proverbs 1:31

Well, then, they shall eat the fruit of their own way, and with their own devices be glutted.

Proverbs 15:27

The greedy tear down their own house, but those who hate bribes will live.

Ecclesiastes 2:19

And who knows whether that one will be wise or a fool? Yet that one will take control of all the fruits of my toil and wisdom under the sun. This also is vanity.

Isaiah 1:23

Your princes are rebels and comrades of thieves; Each one of them loves a bribe and looks for gifts. The fatherless they do not defend, the widow’s plea does not reach them.

Isaiah 56:11

Yes, the dogs have a ravenous appetite; they never know satiety, Shepherds who have no understanding; all have turned their own way, each one covetous for gain:

Ezekiel 13:19

You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and crumbs of bread, slaying those who should not be slain, and keeping alive those who should not live, lying to my people, who listen to lies.

Ezekiel 16:33

Prostitutes usually receive gifts. But you bestowed gifts on all your lovers, bribing them to come to you for prostitution from every side.

Ezekiel 22:12

There are those in you who take bribes to shed blood. You exact interest and usury; you extort profit from your neighbor by violence. But me you have forgotten—oracle of the Lord God.

Micah 3:11

Its leaders render judgment for a bribe, the priests teach for pay, the prophets divine for money, While they rely on the Lord, saying, “Is not the Lord in the midst of us? No evil can come upon us!”

Malachi 1:10

Oh, that one of you would just shut the temple gates to keep you from kindling fire on my altar in vain! I take no pleasure in you, says the Lord of hosts; and I will not accept any offering from your hands!

Matthew 13:22

The seed sown among thorns is the one who hears the word, but then worldly anxiety and the lure of riches choke the word and it bears no fruit.

Matthew 23:13

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You lock the kingdom of heaven before human beings. You do not enter yourselves, nor do you allow entrance to those trying to enter. [

Matthew 6:19

“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and decay destroy, and thieves break in and steal.

Mark 4:19

but worldly anxiety, the lure of riches, and the craving for other things intrude and choke the word, and it bears no fruit.

Deuteronomy 16:19

You must not distort justice: you shall not show partiality; you shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes even of the wise and twists the words even of the just.

Deuteronomy 23:18

There shall be no temple prostitute among the Israelite women, nor a temple prostitute among the Israelite men.

Colossians 3:5

Put to death, then, the parts of you that are earthly: immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and the greed that is idolatry.

1 Timothy 3:3

not a drunkard, not aggressive, but gentle, not contentious, not a lover of money.

1 Timothy 6:21

By professing it, some people have deviated from the faith. Grace be with all of you.

1 Timothy 6:9

Those who want to be rich are falling into temptation and into a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires, which plunge them into ruin and destruction.

2 Timothy 3:2

People will be self-centered and lovers of money, proud, haughty, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, irreligious,

2 Timothy 4:10

for Demas, enamored of the present world, deserted me and went to Thessalonica, Crescens to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.

Titus 1:11

It is imperative to silence them, as they are upsetting whole families by teaching for sordid gain what they should not.

James 5:19

My brothers, if anyone among you should stray from the truth and someone bring him back,

Joshua 7:21

Among the spoils, I saw a beautiful Babylonian mantle, two hundred shekels of silver, and a bar of gold fifty shekels in weight; I coveted them and I took them. They are now hidden in the ground inside my tent, with the silver underneath.”

Jude 1:11

Woe to them! They followed the way of Cain, abandoned themselves to Balaam’s error for the sake of gain, and perished in the rebellion of Korah.

Revelation 18:13

cinnamon, spice, incense, myrrh, and frankincense; wine, olive oil, fine flour, and wheat; cattle and sheep, horses and chariots, and slaves, that is, human beings.