1 Samuel 8:3

Plain English Version

But they were not like their father. They were greedy. They thought only about money. Bad men used to give them money in a quiet way, and then they used to let those bad men go free.

Cross References

2 Samuel 15:4

I should be the judge in this country. I am fair to everybody. I will treat everybody the same way. If somebody comes to me with a problem, I will sort it out for them.” That’s what Absalom used to say to the people.

Psalm 15:5

And whenever somebody needs help, you let them borrow your money. And later on, when they pay you back that money, you only take that same money that they borrowed from you, you don’t make them pay you any more money on top of that. And another thing. If somebody says to you, “I want you to go to court and tell lies about good people. I will pay you money to tell those lies.” You always say, “No, I can’t tell lies about good people.” All of those things that I just talked about in this song, everybody that lives that way will always be really strong for God.

1 Timothy 3:3

He can’t be a drunken man, or a man that gets into fights. – He has to be a quiet man that is not hard on people. – He can’t be a man that loves money. –

1 Timothy 6:10

If you love money a lot, you will do all sorts of bad things to get it. Some people went wrong like that. They wanted a lot of money, so they stopped believing in Jesus, and they got themselves into lots of trouble, and now they are really sad.