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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>1 Timothy 6 Literal Standard Version</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/1_timothy/6.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/1_timothy/6-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">LSV</a> > 1 Timothy 6</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../1_timothy/5.htm" title="1 Timothy 5">◄</a> 1 Timothy 6 <a href="../2_timothy/1.htm" title="2 Timothy 1">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Literal Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/1_timothy/6-1.htm#aramaic" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_timothy/6-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>As many as are servants under a yoke, let them reckon their own masters worthy of all honor, that evil may not be spoken of the Name of God and the teaching; <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_timothy/6-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>and those having believing masters, do not let them slight [them], because they are brothers, but rather let them serve, because they are steadfast and beloved, who are partaking of the benefit. Be teaching and exhorting these things;<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_timothy/6-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>if anyone be teaching otherwise, and does not consent to sound words—those of our Lord Jesus Christ—and to the teaching according to piety, <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_timothy/6-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>he is proud, knowing nothing, but unhealthy about questions and word-striving, out of which come envy, strife, slanders, evil-surmisings, <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_timothy/6-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>wranglings of men wholly corrupted in mind, and destitute of the truth, supposing the piety to be gain; depart from such;<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_timothy/6-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>but it is great gain—the piety with contentment; <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_timothy/6-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>for we brought nothing into the world—because neither are we able to carry out anything; <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_timothy/6-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>but having food and raiment—with these we will suffice ourselves; <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_timothy/6-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>and those intending to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and many desires, foolish and hurtful, that sink men into ruin and destruction, <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_timothy/6-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>for the love of money is a root of all the evils, which certain [ones] longing for went astray from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows;<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_timothy/6-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>and you, O man of God, flee these things, and pursue righteousness, piety, faith, love, endurance, meekness. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_timothy/6-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Be striving the good strife of the faith; be laying hold on the continuous life to which you also were called, and did profess the right profession before many witnesses. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_timothy/6-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>I charge you, before God, who is making all things alive, and of Christ Jesus, who testified the right profession before Pontius Pilate, <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_timothy/6-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>that you keep the command unspotted, unblameable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_timothy/6-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>which He will show in His own times—the blessed and only sovereign, the King of the kings and Lord of the lords, <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_timothy/6-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>having immortality alone, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no one of men saw, nor is able to see, to whom [is] honor and perpetual might! Amen.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_timothy/6-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Charge those rich in the present age not to be high-minded, nor to hope in the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, who is giving to us all things richly for enjoyment— <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_timothy/6-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>to do good, to be rich in good works, to be ready to impart, willing to communicate, <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_timothy/6-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>treasuring up to themselves a right foundation for the time to come, that they may lay hold on [that which is] truly life.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_timothy/6-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>O Timotheus, guard the thing entrusted, avoiding the profane vain-words and opposition of the falsely-named knowledge, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_timothy/6-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>which certain [ones] professing—swerved concerning the faith. 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