1 Timothy 6:9

Those determined to be rich fall into temptation, a snare, and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin. The craving for wealth is spiritually destructive.

Cross-references · 36

• 1 Jn 2:15–17Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.
• Prov 28:20–22A faithful man is rich with blessings; but one who is eager to be rich will not go unpunished.
• Prov 15:27He who is greedy for gain troubles his own house, but he who hates bribes will live.
• Acts 8:20But Peter said to him, “May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money!
• 1 Tim 3:7Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.
• Mark 4:19and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.
• 2 Pet 2:3In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.
• Matt 13:22What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.
• Eph 4:22that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit;
• Jas 5:1–4Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.
• Jude 1:11Woe to them! For they went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in Korah’s rebellion.
• Prov 22:16Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.
• Prov 1:17–19For in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird:
• 2 Pet 2:15–16forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing;
• Num 22:17–19for I will promote you to very great honor, and whatever you say to me I will do. Please come therefore, and curse this people for me.’”
• Prov 21:6Getting treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.
• Prov 20:21An inheritance quickly gained at the beginning, won’t be blessed in the end.
• Matt 19:22But when the young man heard the saying, he went away sad, for he was one who had great possessions.
• Zech 11:5Their buyers slaughter them, and go unpunished. Those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be Yahweh, for I am rich;’ and their own shepherds don’t pity them.
• Josh 7:11Israel has sinned. Yes, they have even transgressed my covenant which I commanded them. Yes, they have even taken some of the devoted things, and have also stolen, and also deceived. They have even put it among their own stuff.
• Prov 23:4Don’t weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.
• 2 Tim 2:26and they may recover themselves out of the devil’s snare, having been taken captive by him to his will.
• Matt 26:15and said, “What are you willing to give me, that I should deliver him to you?” They weighed out for him thirty pieces of silver.
• 2 Kgs 5:20–27But Gehazi the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, “Behold, my master has spared this Naaman the Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought. As Yahweh lives, I will run after him, and take something from him.”
• Acts 5:4–5While you kept it, didn’t it remain your own? After it was sold, wasn’t it in your power? How is it that you have conceived this thing in your heart? You haven’t lied to men, but to God.”
• Isa 5:8Woe to those who join house to house, who lay field to field, until there is no room, and you are made to dwell alone in the middle of the land!
• Amos 8:4–6Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,
• Josh 7:24–26Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, the silver, the robe, the wedge of gold, his sons, his daughters, his cattle, his donkeys, his sheep, his tent, and all that he had; and they brought them up to the valley of Achor.
• 1 Tim 1:9as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
• Gen 13:10–13Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well-watered everywhere, before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar.
• Deut 7:25You shall burn the engraved images of their gods with fire. You shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it for yourself, lest you be snared in it; for it is an abomination to Yahweh your God.
• Num 31:8They killed the kings of Midian with the rest of their slain: Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian. They also killed Balaam the son of Beor with the sword.
• Matt 27:3–5Then Judas, who betrayed him, when he saw that Jesus was condemned, felt remorse, and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,
• Ps 11:6On the wicked he will rain blazing coals; fire, sulfur, and scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.
• Hos 12:7–8A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand. He loves to defraud.
• Luke 21:35For it will come like a snare on all those who dwell on the surface of all the earth.

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