1 Timothy 6:9-11
1599 Geneva Bible
9 [a]For they that will be rich, fall into tentation and snares, and into many foolish and noisome lusts, which drown men in perdition and destruction.
10 For the desire of money is the root of all evil, which while some lusted after they erred from the faith, and [b]pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
11 [c]But thou, O [d]man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, and meekness.
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- 1 Timothy 6:9 He frayeth Timothy from covetousness after another sort, to wit, because it draweth with it an infinite sort of lusts, and those very hurtful, wherewith covetous men do torment themselves so far forth, that in the end they cast away from them their faith and salvation.
- 1 Timothy 6:10 Sorrow and grief do as it were pierce through the mind of man, and are the harvest and true fruits of covetousness.
- 1 Timothy 6:11 A peculiar exhortation to divers virtues, wherewith it behooveth the Pastors especially to be furnished.
- 1 Timothy 6:11 Whom the Spirit of God ruleth.
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