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.

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• 1 Jn 2:15–17Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
• Prov 28:20–22A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.
• Prov 15:27He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live.
• Acts 8:20But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.
• 1 Tim 3:7Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
• Mark 4:19And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.
• 2 Pet 2:3And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
• Matt 13:22He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.
• Eph 4:22That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
• Jas 5:1–4Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
• Jude 1:11Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.
• Prov 22:16He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.
• Prov 1:17–19Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
• 2 Pet 2:15–16Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
• Num 22:17–19For I will promote thee unto very great honour, and I will do whatsoever thou sayest unto me: come therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people.
• Prov 21:6The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.
• Prov 20:21An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.
• Matt 19:22But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions.
• Zech 11:5Whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty: and they that sell them say, Blessed be the LORD; for I am rich: and their own shepherds pity them not.
• Josh 7:11Israel hath sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded them: for they have even taken of the accursed thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also, and they have put it even among their own stuff.
• Prov 23:4Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.
• 2 Tim 2:26And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.
• Matt 26:15And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver.
• 2 Kgs 5:20–27But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my master hath spared Naaman this Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought: but, as the LORD liveth, I will run after him, and take somewhat of him.
• Acts 5:4–5Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.
• Isa 5:8Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!
• Amos 8:4–6Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
• Josh 7:24–26And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had: and they brought them unto the valley of Achor.
• 1 Tim 1:9Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
• Gen 13:10–13And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
• Deut 7:25The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it is an abomination to the LORD thy God.
• Num 31:8And they slew the kings of Midian, beside the rest of them that were slain; namely, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, five kings of Midian: Balaam also the son of Beor they slew with the sword.
• Matt 27:3–5Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,
• Ps 11:6Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.
• Hos 12:7–8He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.
• Luke 21:35For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.

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