1 Timothy 6:4

1 Timothy 6:4

2 And those who have believing masters, let them not despise them because they are brethren, but rather serve them because those who are benefited are believers and beloved. Teach and exhort these things.

Error and Greed

3 If anyone teaches otherwise and does not consent to ^awholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, ^band to the doctrine which accords with godliness,

4 he is proud, knowing nothing, but is obsessed with disputes and arguments over words, from which come envy, strife, reviling, evil suspicions,

5 ¹useless wranglings of men of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain.² From ^asuch withdraw yourself.

6 Now godliness with ^acontentment is great gain.

7 For we brought nothing into this world,¹ and it is ^acertain we can carry nothing out.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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He is proud—literally, "wrapt in smoke"; filled with the fumes of self-conceit (I Timothy 3:6) while "knowing nothing," namely, of the doctrine which is according to godliness (I Timothy 6:3), though arrogating pre-eminent knowledge (I Timothy 1:7).

doting about—literally, "sick about"; the opposite of "wholesome" (I Timothy 6:3). Truth is not the center about which his investigations move, but mere word-strifes.

questions—of controversy.

strifes of words—rather than about realities (II Timothy 2:14). These stand with them instead of "godliness" and "wholesome words" (I Timothy 6:3; I Timothy 1:4; Titus 3:9).

evil surmisings—as to those who are of a different party from themselves.

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