Search for: lucre (6 verses)

Lucre is another word for money, or profit. It's most often used to describe money gotten illegally or immorally.

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(6 verses)

  1 Samuel 8:3   And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.

  1 Timothy 3:3   Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;

  1 Timothy 3:8   Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;

  Titus 1:7   For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;

  Titus 1:11   Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.

  1 Peter 5:2   Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;