1 Timothy 6

¹Whosoever are servants under the yoke, let them count their masters worthy of all honour; lest the name of the Lord and his doctrine be blasphemed.

²But they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren; but serve them the rather, because they are faithful and beloved, who are partakers of the benefit. These things teach and exhort.

³If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to that doctrine which is according to godliness,

⁴He is proud, knowing nothing, but sick about questions and strifes of words; from which arise envies, contentions, blasphemies, evil suspicions,

⁵Conflicts of men corrupted in mind, and who are destitute of the truth, supposing gain to be godliness.

⁶But godliness with contentment is great gain.

⁷For we brought nothing into this world: and certainly we can carry nothing out.

⁸But having food, and wherewith to be covered, with these we are content.

⁹For they that will become rich, fall into temptation, and into the snare of the devil, and into many unprofitable and hurtful desires, which drown men into destruction and perdition.

¹⁰For the desire of money is the root of all evils; which some coveting have erred from the faith, and have entangled themselves in many sorrows.

¹¹But thou, O man of God, fly these things: and pursue justice, godliness, faith, charity, patience, mildness.

¹²Fight the good fight of faith: lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art called, and hast confessed a good confession before many witnesses.