12 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

• Idolatry
• Truth
• Wealth and Poverty

5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

• 1John 1:8 — If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
• 1Tim 1:6 — From which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling;
• 1Tim 3:3 — Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;
• 1Tim 3:8 — Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;
• 1Tim 6:6 — But godliness with contentment is great gain.
• 2John 1:8 — Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.
• 2Pet 2:3 — And 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.
• 2Pet 2:3 — And 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.
• 2Pet 2:15 — Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
• 2Thess 2:8 — And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
• 2Thess 3:6 — Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.
• 2Thess 3:6 — Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.
• 2Tim 3:5 — Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
• 2Tim 3:5 — Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
• 2Tim 3:8 — Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.
• 2Tim 3:8 — Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.
• Acts 8:18 — And when Simon saw that through laying on of the apostles’ hands the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money,
• Acts 19:9 — But when divers were hardened, and believed not, but spake evil of that way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus.
• Acts 19:27 — So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and th
• Eph 4:17 — This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
• Eph 5:11 — And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
• Heb 3:12 — Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
• Hos 12:8 — And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: in all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me that were sin.
• John 6:26 — Jesus answered them and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were filled.
• Jude 1:11 — Woe 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.
• Jude 1:16 — These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage.
• Luke 12:13 — And one of the company said unto him, Master, speak to my brother, that he divide the inheritance with me.
• Matt 7:17 — Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
• Matt 12:33 — Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit.
• Matt 21:13 — And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.
• Matt 23:13 — But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
• Phil 3:19 — Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
• Prov 4:24 — Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.
• Rev 18:3 — For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abunda
• Rom 9:20 — Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
• Rom 16:17 — Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.
• Rom 16:18 — For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.
• Titus 1:11 — Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake.
• Titus 1:11 — Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake.
• Titus 1:15 — Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.