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lucre
«There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.»
Author: Edward Dahlberg
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
American Idol, coldest, idol, lucre, rapidly, The Americans
«And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.»
«The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed: / 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; / Neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being ensamples to the flock.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
constraint, constraints, elder, exhort, exhorted, exhorting, filthy, lords, lucre, Old Glory, oversight, partaker, sufferings
«For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision: / Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.»
«Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre; / Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.»
«A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach; / Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous; / One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity; / (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?) / Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
behaviour, blameless, brawler, brawlers, Church of, Church of God, condemnation, covetous, fall into, filthy, gravity, greedy, hospitality, lifted, lucre, novice, novices, striker, subjection, The Church of, The Novice, vigilant, with pride
«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; / But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate; / Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
bishop, blameless, exhort, exhorted, exhorting, filthy, hospitality, lucre, self-willed, selfwilled, steward, stewards, striker, temperate, wine lover
