1Tim 6
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Let as many as are servants under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor,
that the name of God and the doctrine be not blasphemed.
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And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are
brethren; but let them serve them the rather, because they that partake of the benefit
are believing and beloved. These things teach and exhort.
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If any man teaches a different doctrine, and consents not to sound words, [even] the
words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;
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he is puffed up, knowing nothing, but doting about questionings and disputes of words,
whereof comes envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,
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wranglings of men corrupted in mind and bereft of the truth, supposing that godliness
is a way of gain.
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But godliness with contentment is great gain:
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for we brought nothing into the world, for neither can we carry anything out;
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but having food and covering we shall be therewith content.
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But they that are minded to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish
and hurtful lusts, such as drown men in destruction and perdition.
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For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil: which some reaching after have
been led astray from the faith, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
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But you, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness,
faith, love, patience, meekness.
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Fight the good fight of the faith, lay hold on the life eternal, to which you were
called, and did confess the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.
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I charge you in the sight of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus,
who before Pontius Pilate witnessed the good confession;
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that you keep the commandment, without spot, without reproach, until the appearing
of our Lord Jesus Christ:
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which in its own times he shall show, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King
of kings, and Lord of lords;
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who only has immortality, dwelling in light unapproachable; whom no man has seen,
nor can see: to whom [be] honor and power eternal. Amen.
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Charge them that are rich in this present world, that they be not high-minded, nor
have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who gives us richly
all things to enjoy;
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that they do good, that they be rich in good works, that they be ready to distribute,
willing to communicate;
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laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that
they may lay hold on the life which is [life] indeed.
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O Timothy, guard that which is committed to [you], turning away from the profane babblings
and oppositions of the knowledge which is falsely so called;
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which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with you.