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[[Image:moneynot.JPG‎|link=http://www.preparingyou.com/wiki/RealMoney|300px|Center|thumb|Men and women often sell their soul for '''[[Real money|Stuff Posing As Money]]''' <Br>Is this "[[filthy lucre]] of graft and corruption?<Br>Is "[[filthy lucre]]"  the "dirty money" that appeared in [[Egypt]] when the "money failed" and [[Israel]] went into [[Bondage of Egypt|bondage]] in [[Genesis 47]]? <Br>Is the [[Elements|element]] of the [[world]] that makes it "[[filthy lucre]]" the fact that it comes from governments that [[exercise authority]] one over the other?<Ref name="exauth">{{exauth}}</Ref><Br>Is it because it is an unjust weight and measure<Ref name="jmeasure">{{jmeasure}}</Ref> that cannot pay<Ref name="Paysilv">{{Paysilv}}</Ref> a debt?<Ref name="moneypay">{{moneypay}}</Ref><Br>]]

What is [[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]]. 

[[Money_can_be_anything|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 [[Apostle|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|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 for gain|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'' <Ref>150 ~αἰσχρός~ aischros \@ahee-skhros’\@ from the same as 153; adj AV-filthy 1; 1  1) filthy, baseness, dishonour</Ref> and the word  ''kerdos'' <Ref>2771 ~κέρδος~ kerdos \@ker’-dos\@ of uncertain affinity;  n n AV-gain 2, lucre 1; 3 1) gain, advantage</Ref>.

The word ''aischros'' comes from or is the same as ''aischunomai''<Ref> 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</Ref>

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

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