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Teach and exhort these things.</span></p> <h3> Error and Greed</span></h3><p><span class="text 1Tim-6-3"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_timothy/6-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>If anyone teaches otherwise and does not consent to wholesome words, <i>even</i> the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[a]</a></span>doctrine which accords with godliness, </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_timothy/6-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>he is proud, knowing nothing, but is obsessed with disputes and arguments over words, from which come envy, strife, reviling, evil suspicions, </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_timothy/6-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[b]</a></span>useless wranglings of men of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a <i>means of</i> gain. <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[c]</a></span>From such withdraw yourself.</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_timothy/6-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Now godliness with contentment is great gain. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_timothy/6-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>For we brought nothing into <i>this</i> world, <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[d]</a></span><i>and it is</i> certain we can carry nothing out. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_timothy/6-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And having food and clothing, with these we shall be content. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_timothy/6-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and <i>into</i> many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_timothy/6-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>For the love of money is a root of all <i>kinds of</i> evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.</span></p> <h3> The Good Confession</span></h3><p><span class="text 1Tim-6-11"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_timothy/6-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>But you, O man of God, flee these things and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, gentleness. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_timothy/6-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were also called and have confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_timothy/6-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>I urge you in the sight of God who gives life to all things, and <i>before</i> Christ Jesus who witnessed the good confession before Pontius Pilate, </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_timothy/6-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>that you keep <i>this</i> commandment without spot, blameless until our Lord Jesus Christ’s appearing, </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_timothy/6-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>which He will manifest in His own time, <i>He who is</i> the blessed and only <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[e]</a></span>Potentate, the King of kings and Lord of lords, </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_timothy/6-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>who alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see, to whom <i>be</i> honor and everlasting power. Amen.</span></p> <h3> Instructions to the Rich</span></h3><p><span class="text 1Tim-6-17"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_timothy/6-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Command those who are rich in this present age not to be haughty, nor to trust in uncertain riches but in the living God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_timothy/6-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><i>Let them</i> do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to give, willing to share, </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_timothy/6-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>storing up for themselves a good foundation for the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.</span></p> <h3> Guard the Faith</span></h3><p><span class="text 1Tim-6-20"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_timothy/6-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>O Timothy! Guard what was committed to your trust, avoiding the profane <i>and</i> <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[f]</a></span>idle babblings and contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge— </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_timothy/6-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>by professing it some have strayed concerning the faith.</span></p><p><span class="text 1Tim-6-21">Grace <i>be</i> with you. Amen.</span></p> <A name="footnotes"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes:</h4><ol><li id="fen-NKJV-29792a"><span class="fnref" title="Go to 1 Timothy 6:3">1 Timothy 6:3</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>teaching</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-29794b"><span class="fnref" title="Go to 1 Timothy 6:5">1 Timothy 6:5</span> <span class='footnote-text'>NU, M <i>constant friction</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-29794c"><span class="fnref" title="Go to 1 Timothy 6:5">1 Timothy 6:5</span> <span class='footnote-text'>NU omits the rest of v. <span class="bibleref" data-bibleref="1Tim.6.5" href="/passage/?search=1Tim.6.5&version=NKJV">5</span>.</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-29796d"><span class="fnref" title="Go to 1 Timothy 6:7">1 Timothy 6:7</span> <span class='footnote-text'>NU omits <i>and it is certain</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-29804e"><span class="fnref" title="Go to 1 Timothy 6:15">1 Timothy 6:15</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>Sovereign</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-29809f"><span class="fnref" title="Go to 1 Timothy 6:20">1 Timothy 6:20</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>empty chatter</i></span></li></ol></div> <!--end of footnotes--></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. 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