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1 Timothy 6 Smith's Literal Translation
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These things teach and beseech.<p> <A name="4"></a><p class="hdg">Reject False Doctrines<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_timothy/6-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>If any teach otherwise, and come not up to the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine according to devotion; <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_timothy/6-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>He has been proud, knowing nothing, but sick about questions and disputes of words, of which is envy, strife, slanders, evil conjectures, <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_timothy/6-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Unprofitable occupations of men corrupted in mind, and deprived of the truth, thinking gain to be devotion: be separated from such.<p> <A name="7"></a><p class="hdg">Godliness with Contentment<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_timothy/6-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>But devotion with contentment is great gain. <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, it is manifest that neither are we able to carry anything out. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_timothy/6-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And having sustenance and covering, with these let us be contented. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_timothy/6-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And they wishing to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and many eager desires, unwise and hurtful, which sink men into ruin and perdition. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_timothy/6-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>For the root of all evils is the love of money: which some striving for, have been led astray from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many pains.<p> <A name="12"></a><p class="hdg">Fight the Good Fight<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_timothy/6-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow justice, devotion, faith, love, patience, meekness. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_timothy/6-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Contend earnestly the good contest of faith, take hold upon eternal life, into which thou wert also called, and hast confessed the good confession before many witnesses. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_timothy/6-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>I beseech thee before God, making all things alive, and Christ Jesus, he having witnessed to Pontius Pilate the good confession; <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_timothy/6-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>For thee to keep the command spotless, irreprehensible, until the appearance 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 the blessed and only sovereign shall show in his own times, the King of those reigning, and Lord of those ruling; <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_timothy/6-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Who only having immortality, inhabiting inaccessible light; which none of men saw, nor can see; to whom honour and might forever. Amen.<p> <A name="18"></a><p class="hdg">A Charge to the Rich<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../proverbs/23.htm">Proverbs 23:1–5</a>; <a href ="../james/5.htm">James 5:1–6</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_timothy/6-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>To the rich now in this life, proclaim not to be highminded, nor to be hoping upon the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, offering us all things richly for profit; <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 liberal, qualified for participation; <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_timothy/6-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Treasuring up to themselves a good foundation for the future, that they may lay hold upon eternal life.<p> <A name="21"></a><p class="hdg">Guard the Faith<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_timothy/6-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>O Timothy, watch that which holds firm, turning aside from profane, idle talk, and oppositions of knowledge, bearing a false name: <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_timothy/6-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Which some proclaiming have missed their aim concerning the faith. 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