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  • Debate over whether Michaele could make it on her own, which allows Paul to give the sideswipe that it's easy for Lynda to say -- she married and divorced a very rich man, that's where the lucre's from, not her modeling agency.

    Last one ever?: D.C. 'Housewives' recap and fact-check (#9, Oct. 7) The Reliable Source 2010

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

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

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

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • 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.

    Titus 1. 1999

  • In the background, on either side of the Hall, are the household, only a few for their master has an uncomfortably small income, but they love him and will not leave him for filthy lucre's sake.

    A Heart-Song of To-day Annie Gregg Savigny

  • How many souls have they been the means of destroying by their ignorance and corrupt doctrine? preaching that which was no better for their souls than ratsbane to the body, for filthy lucre's sake.

    The Riches of Bunyan Jeremiah Rev. Chaplin

  • Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking care of it, not by constraint but willingly, according to God: not for filthy lucre's sake but voluntarily:

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 67: 1 Peter The Challoner Revision

  • Who must be reproved, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous

  • Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking care of it, not by constraint but willingly, according to God: not for filthy lucre's sake but voluntarily:

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision Anonymous

  • Who must be reproved, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision Anonymous

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