King James Version1 Timothy6

1 Timothy

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 doc­trine which is ac­cord­ing to god­li­ness; 4 He is proud, know­ing noth­ing, but dot­ing about ques­tions and strifes of words, where­of cometh en­vy, strife, rail­ings, evil sur­mis­ings, 5 Per­verse dis­put­ings of men of cor­rupt minds, and des­ti­tute of the truth, sup­pos­ing that gain is god­li­ness: from such with­draw thy­self. 6 But god­li­ness with con­tent­ment is great gain. 7 For we brought noth­ing into this world, and it is cer­tain we can car­ry noth­ing out. 8 And hav­ing food and rai­ment let us be there­with con­tent. 9 But they that will be rich fall into temp­ta­tion and a snare, and into many fool­ish and hurt­ful lusts, which drown men in de­struc­tion and perdi­tion. 10 For the love of mon­ey is the root of all evil: which while some cov­et­ed af­ter, they have erred from the faith, and pierced them­selves through with many sor­rows. 11 But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and fol­low af­ter righ­teous­ness, god­li­ness, faith, love, pa­tience, meek­ness. 12 Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eter­nal life, where­un­to thou art also called, and hast pro­fessed a good pro­fes­sion be­fore many wit­ness­es. 13 I give thee charge in the sight of God, who quick­eneth all things, and before Christ Je­sus, who be­fore Pon­tius Pi­late wit­nessed a good con­fes­sion; 14 That thou keep this com­mand­ment with­out spot, un­re­buke­able, un­til the ap­pear­ing of our Lord Je­sus Christ: 15 Which in his times he shall shew, who is the blessed and only Po­ten­tate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords; 16 Who only hath im­mor­tal­i­ty, dwelling in the light which no man can ap­proach un­to; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be hon­our and pow­er ev­er­last­ing. Amen. 17 Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not high­mind­ed, nor trust in un­cer­tain rich­es, but in the liv­ing God, who giveth us rich­ly all things to en­joy; 18 That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to dis­tribute, will­ing to com­mu­ni­cate; 19 Lay­ing up in store for them­selves a good foun­da­tion against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eter­nal life. 20 O Tim­o­thy, keep that which is com­mit­ted to thy trust, avoid­ing pro­fane and vain bab­blings, and op­po­si­tions of sci­ence false­ly so called: 21 Which some pro­fess­ing have erred con­cern­ing the faith. Grace be with thee. Amen.