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7 For we brought nothing into this world,1 and it is acertain we can carry nothing out.  
8 And having food and clothing, with these we shall be acontent.  
9 But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition.
10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

The Good Confession

11 But you, O man of God, flee these things and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, gentleness.
12 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.
13 I urge you in the sight of God who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus awho witnessed the good confession before Pontius Pilate,  
14 that you keep this commandment without spot, blameless until our Lord Jesus Christ’s appearing,
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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1 Timothy 6:9

will be rich—have more than "food and raiment." Greek, "wish to be rich"; not merely are willing, but are resolved, and earnestly desire to have riches at any cost (Proverbs 28:20, Proverbs 28:22). This wishing (not the riches themselves) is fatal to "contentment" (I Timothy 6:6). Rich men are not told to cast away their riches, but not to "trust" in them, and to "do good" with them (I Timothy 6:17-18; Psalms 62:10).

fall into temptation—not merely "are exposed to temptation," but actually "fall into" it. The falling into it is what we are to pray against, "Lead us not into temptation" (James 1:14); such a one is already in a sinful state, even before any overt act of sin. The Greek for "temptation" and "gain" contains a play on sounds—porasmus, peirasmus.

snare—a further step downwards (I Timothy 3:7). He falls into "the snare of the devil."

foolish—irrational.

hurtful—to those who fall into the snare. Compare Ephesians 4:22, "deceitful lusts" which deceive to one's deadly hurt.

lusts—With the one evil lust ("wish to be rich") many others join themselves: the one is the "root of all evils" (I Timothy 6:10).

which—Greek, "whatever (lusts)."

drown—an awful descending climax from "fall into"; this is the last step in the terrible descent (James 1:15); translated "sink," Luke 5:7.

destruction . . . perdition—destruction in general (temporal or eternal), and perdition in particular, namely, that of body and soul in hell.




Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing 1 Timothy 6:9:

Proverbs 10:22
Proverbs 23:4-5
1 Timothy 3:7
1 Timothy 6:10
1 Timothy 6:11
2 Timothy 2:26

 

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