1 Timothy 6:5
Conflicts of men corrupted in mind, and who are destitute of the truth, supposing gain to be godliness.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
6But godliness with contentment is great gain.
Cross References
2 Kings 5:20But Giezi the servant of the man of God said: My master hath spared Naaman this Syrian, in not receiving of him that which he brought: as the Lord liveth, I will run after him, and take some thing of him:
Jeremiah 6:13For from the least of them even to the greatest, all are given to covetousness: and from the prophet even to the priest, all are guilty of deceit.
Ezekiel 33:31And they come to thee, as if a people were coming in, and my people sit before thee: and hear thy words, and do them not: for they turn them into a song of their mouth, and their heart goeth after their covetousness.
Matthew 12:33Either make the tree good and its fruit good: or make the tree evil, and its fruit evil. For by the fruit the tree is known.
Matthew 23:13But woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you shut the kingdom of heaven against men, for you yourselves do not enter in; and those that are going in, you suffer not to enter.
Acts 8:18And when Simon saw, that by the imposition of the hands of the apostles, the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money,
Matthew Henry on 1 Timothy 6:2-6
The Duty of Servants. ( a. d. 64.) 1 Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed. 2 And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren; but rather do them service, because they are faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit. These things teach and exhort. 3 If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the… Read the whole commentary →