1 Timothy 6:8–19

⁸But if we^* have food and clothing, with these things we will be content. ⁹But those who want to be rich fall into temptation and a trap and many foolish and harmful desires, which plunge those people into ruin and destruction. ¹⁰For the love of money is a root of all evil, by which some, because they^* desire it, have gone astray from the faith and have pierced themselves with many pains.

Renewed Charge to Timothy

¹¹But you, O man of God, flee from these things, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patient endurance, gentleness. ¹²Fight the good fight of the faith; take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses. ¹³I command you, in the sight of God who gives life to all things and Christ Jesus who testified the good confession before Pontius Pilate, ¹⁴that you observe the commandment without fault, irreproachable until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, ¹⁵which he will make known in his own time, the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of those who reign as kings and Lord of those who rule as lords, ¹⁶the one who alone possesses immortality, who lives in unapproachable light, whom no human being has seen nor is able to see, to whom be honor and eternal power. Amen.

Instructions to the Rich

¹⁷Command those who are rich in this present age not to be proud and not to put their hope in the uncertainty of riches, but in God, who provides us all things richly for enjoyment, ¹⁸to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous, sharing freely, ¹⁹storing up for themselves a good foundation for the future, in order that they may take hold of what is truly life.