note that Paul is not only contrasting hope to greed, but more precisely, hope in God to hope in wealth. Those who hope in wealth, he says, “fall into temptation and … into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge [them] into ruin” (6:9). Those who love money chase it. But those who seek God chase “righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance and gentleness” (6:11). In other words, those who seek God and those who seek riches both seek them because that is where they have put their hope.