1 Timothy 6

¹All who are under the yoke as slaves, should regard their own masters as worthy of all honor, so that the name of God and the teaching may not be blasphemed.

²And those who have believing masters must not despise them because they are brothers; but rather serve them, because those who benefit from their good service are believers and beloved. Teach and exhort these things.

³If anyone teaches a different doctrine and does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and with the teaching that accords with godliness,

⁴he is puffed up with conceit, knowing nothing, but having a morbid craving about controversies and disputes about words, from which come envy, strife, slanders, evil suspicions,

⁶But godliness with contentment is great gain.

⁸But having sustenance and coverings, with these we will be content.

⁹But those desiring to be rich fall into temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful desires, which plunge men into ruin and destruction.

¹⁰For the love of money is a root of all evils, which some, reaching after, were led astray from the faith and pierced themselves with many sorrows.

¹¹But you, O man of God, flee these things; and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance, gentleness;

¹²Fight the good fight of the faith; lay hold of the eternal life, to which also you were called and confessed the good confession before many witnesses.

¹³I charge you before God who gives life to all things, and Christ Jesus who testified the good confession before Pontius Pilate

¹⁴that you keep the commandment unstained, free from reproach until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ,

¹⁵which he will display in its own seasons, the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of those who reign and Lord of those who rule,

¹⁶who alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no one of men has seen nor is able to see, to whom be honor and eternal dominion, Amen.

¹⁷To those who are rich in the present age, give charge not to be high-minded, nor to set hope on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who lives, who provides us all things richly for enjoyment,

¹⁸to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous in distributing, ready to share,

¹⁹treasuring up for themselves a good foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of that which is truly life.

²⁰O Timothy, guard the deposit, avoiding the profane empty babblings and oppositions of the falsely-named knowledge,

²¹which some, professing, have swerved concerning the faith.