1 Timothy 6
1 All who are under the yoke as slaves should consider their own masters worthy of full honor, so that God’s name and the teaching may not be blasphemed.
2 Those whose masters are believers should not look down on them because they are brothers. Instead, they should serve them all the more, since those who benefit from their good service are believers and beloved. Teach and urge these things.
3 If anyone teaches a different doctrine and does not hold to the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and to the teaching that accords with godliness,
4 that person is conceited and understands nothing. Instead, they have an unhealthy craving for disputes and arguments about words, which give rise to envy, strife, blasphemies, and evil suspicions,
5 and constant friction among people whose minds are corrupt and who have been deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a source of gain.
6 But godliness with contentment is indeed a great source of gain.
7 For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it.
8 But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with these.
9 Those who want to become rich fall into temptation, a trap, and many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.
10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some, by longing for it, have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many sorrows.
11 But you, man of God, flee from these things. Pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance, and gentleness.
12 Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of eternal life, to which you were called and for which you made the good confession before many witnesses.
13 In the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and Christ Jesus, who testified to the good confession before Pontius Pilate, I charge you:
14 Keep the commandment unstained and free from reproach until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ.
15 At the proper time, this will be shown by the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of those who reign and Lord of those who rule,
16 who alone possesses immortality and dwells in unapproachable light, whom no human being has seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal power. Amen.
17 Command those who are rich in this present age not to be proud or to set their hope on the uncertainty of wealth, but on God, who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment.
18 Tell them to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous in giving, and ready to share.
19 In this way they will store up for themselves a good foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of true life.
20 O Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you. Avoid empty, profane talk and the contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge.
21 Some who profess this knowledge have wandered from the faith. Grace be with you.
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