Filthy lucre

The phrase "filthy lucre" includes two ideas, gain and filthy, or gain that is the result of people who "deal fraudulently".

Gain itself is not bad. If you plant a seed, you may get many seeds back and there is nothing wrong with that.

The term "filthy lucre" is certainly not the same as "money" besides there all kinds of money.

Anything can be money. While some things may be used as money, that does not make it Real Money. There is even Debt Money that may involve the idea of filthy lucre.

The apostles were told to take their purse with them, the widow was praised because she gave a mite.

The apostles often used money, and Paul and Barnabas both took up collections of money to be used to bring aid to different churches in need, saving lives.

Mammon is not money either, although some things used as money can create the Mammon of unrighteousness.

So where is this phrase "filthy lucre" actually used and in what context?

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;"

Filthy lucre is from two words aischros ^[5] and the word kerdos ^[6].

The word aischros comes from or is the same as aischunomai^[7]

The Corban of the Pharisees was a source of a dishonorable benefit for it made the word of God to none effect. Any benefit that comes from Wantonness or Greed would qualify as filthy Lucre.

The woman who sets a table of unrighteousness offers a welfare that is a snare and a trap.

Ecclesiastes 7:26 "And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her."

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↑ Not exercise authority
Matthew 20:25 "But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them. But it shall not be so among you:..."

Mark 10:42 "But Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them, Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and their great ones exercise authority upon them. But so shall it not be among you:..."

Luke 22:25 "And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors. But ye [shall] not [be] so:..."
↑ Just measure of money
Leviticus 19:15 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: [but] in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.

Leviticus 19:35 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.

Leviticus 19:36 Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I [am] the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 25:13 ¶ Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.

Deuteronomy 25:14 Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small.

Deuteronomy 25:15 [But] thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

Deuteronomy 25:16 For all that do such things, [and] all that do unrighteously, [are] an abomination unto the LORD thy God.

Proverbs 11:1 ¶ A false balance [is] abomination to the LORD: but a just weight [is] his delight.

Isaiah 55:7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
↑ Paying substance
Genesis 13:2 And Abram [was] very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.

Genesis 24:35 And the LORD hath blessed my master greatly; and he is become great: and he hath given him flocks, and herds, and silver, and gold, and menservants, and maidservants, and camels, and asses.

Genesis 23:16 And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current [money] with the merchant.

Ezra 8:25 And weighed unto them the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, [even] the offering of the house of our God, which the king, and his counsellors, and his lords, and all Israel [there] present, had offered:

Exodus 20:23 Ye shall not make with me gods of silver, neither shall ye make unto you gods of gold.

Exodus 32:3 And all the people brake off the golden earrings which [were] in their ears, and brought [them] unto Aaron.

Proverbs 1:14 Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:

Proverbs 3:9 Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:
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Just payment
Leviticus 19:36 Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I [am] the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.
- "Money is the just medium and measure of all commutable things, for, by the medium of money, a convenient and just estimation of all things is made."?
  Maxim: "Moneta est justum medium et mensura rerum commutabilium, nam per meduim monetae fit omnium rerum conveniens, et justa aestimatio." Dav. 18. See 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 922.
- "There is a distinction between a `debt discharged' and a `debt paid.' When discharged the debt still exists though divested of its character as a legal obligation during the operation of the discharge. Something of the original vitality of the debt continues to exist, which may be transferred, even though the transferee takes it subject to its disability incident to the discharge. The fact that it carries something which may be a consideration for a new promise to pay, so as to make an otherwise worthless promise a legal obligation, makes it the subject of transfer by assignment." Stanek v. White. 172 Minn. 390, 215 N. W. 784.
- "Thus, it is clear that, as a result of HJR 192 and from that day forward (June 5, 1933), no one has been able to pay a debt. The only thing they can do is tender in transfer of debts, and the debt is perpetual." Understanding the Impact of HJR-192: Suspension of the Gold.
While these terms are used interchangeably, "lawful money" has a broader meaning than "legal tender".
↑ 150 ~αἰσχρός~ aischros \@ahee-skhros’\@ from the same as 153; adj AV-filthy 1; 1 1) filthy, baseness, dishonour
↑ 2771 ~κέρδος~ kerdos \@ker’-dos\@ of uncertain affinity; n n AV-gain 2, lucre 1; 3 1) gain, advantage
↑ 153 ~αἰσχύνομαι~ aischunomai \@ahee-skhoo’-nom-ahee\@ from aischos (disfigurement, i.e. disgrace); v AV-be ashamed 5; 5 1) to disfigure 2) to dishonour 3) to suffuse with shame, make ashamed, be ashamed

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So filthy lucre would be dishonest gain or benefit or a gain or benefits that was obtained dishonorably.