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1 Tim. 6:9 KJV (With Strong’s)

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But they that willc be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.

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Prov. 28:20• ²⁰A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent. (Prov. 28:20)

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Gen. 13:10‑13• ¹⁰And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
¹¹Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.
¹²Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.
¹³But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the Lord exceedingly. (Gen. 13:10‑13)

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Num. 22:17‑19• ¹⁷For I will promote thee unto very great honor, and I will do whatsoever thou sayest unto me: come therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people.
¹⁸And Balaam answered and said unto the servants of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the Lord my God, to do less or more.
¹⁹Now therefore, I pray you, tarry ye also here this night, that I may know what the Lord will say unto me more. (Num. 22:17‑19)

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Josh. 7:11• ¹¹Israel hath sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded them: for they have even taken of the accursed thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also, and they have put it even among their own stuff. (Josh. 7:11)

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2 Kings 5:20‑27• ²⁰But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my master hath spared Naaman this Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought: but, as the Lord liveth, I will run after him, and take somewhat of him.
²¹So Gehazi followed after Naaman. And when Naaman saw him running after him, he lighted down from the chariot to meet him, and said, Is all well?
²²And he said, All is well. My master hath sent me, saying, Behold, even now there be come to me from mount Ephraim two young men of the sons of the prophets: give them, I pray thee, a talent of silver, and two changes of garments.
²³And Naaman said, Be content, take two talents. And he urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of garments, and laid them upon two of his servants; and they bare them before him.
²⁴And when he came to the tower, he took them from their hand, and bestowed them in the house: and he let the men go, and they departed.
²⁵But he went in, and stood before his master. And Elisha said unto him, Whence comest thou, Gehazi? And he said, Thy servant went no whither.
²⁶And he said unto him, Went not mine heart with thee, when the man turned again from his chariot to meet thee? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and oliveyards, and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and maidservants?
²⁷The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed for ever. And he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow. (2 Kings 5:20‑27)

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Prov. 15:27• ²⁷He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live. (Prov. 15:27)

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Prov. 20:21• ²¹An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed. (Prov. 20:21)

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Prov. 21:6• ⁶The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death. (Prov. 21:6)

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Prov. 22:16• ¹⁶He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want. (Prov. 22:16)

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Prov. 28:20‑22• ²⁰A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.
²¹To have respect of persons is not good: for for a piece of bread that man will transgress.
²²He that hasteth to be rich hath an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him. (Prov. 28:20‑22)

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Isa. 5:8• ⁸Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth! (Isa. 5:8)

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Hos. 12:7‑8• ⁷He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.
⁸And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: in all my labors they shall find none iniquity in me that were sin. (Hos. 12:7‑8)

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Amos 8:4‑6• ⁴Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
⁵Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?
⁶That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat? (Amos 8:4‑6)

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Zech. 11:5• ⁵Whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty: and they that sell them say, Blessed be the Lord; for I am rich: and their own shepherds pity them not. (Zech. 11:5)

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Matt. 13:22• ²²He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful. (Matt. 13:22)

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Matt. 19:22• ²²But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions. (Matt. 19:22)

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Matt. 26:15• ¹⁵And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver. (Matt. 26:15)

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James 5:1‑4• ¹Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
²Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
³Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
⁴Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth. (James 5:1‑4)

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2 Peter 2:15‑16• ¹⁵Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
¹⁶But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet. (2 Peter 2:15‑16)

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Jude 11• ¹¹Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core. (Jude 11)

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1 Tim. 3:7• ⁷Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil. (1 Tim. 3:7)

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Deut. 7:25• ²⁵The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it is an abomination to the Lord thy God. (Deut. 7:25)

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Psa. 11:6• ⁶Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup. (Psa. 11:6)

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Prov. 1:17‑19• ¹⁷Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
¹⁸And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
¹⁹So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof. (Prov. 1:17‑19)

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Luke 21:35• ³⁵For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth. (Luke 21:35)

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2 Tim. 2:26• ²⁶And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will. (2 Tim. 2:26)

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Mark 4:19• ¹⁹And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful. (Mark 4:19)

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Eph. 4:22• ²²That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; (Eph. 4:22)

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1 John 2:15‑17• ¹⁵Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
¹⁶For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
¹⁷And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever. (1 John 2:15‑17)

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1 Tim. 1:9• ⁹Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, (1 Tim. 1:9)

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Num. 31:8• ⁸And they slew the kings of Midian, beside the rest of them that were slain; namely, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, five kings of Midian: Balaam also the son of Beor they slew with the sword. (Num. 31:8)

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Josh. 7:24‑26• ²⁴And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had: and they brought them unto the valley of Achor.
²⁵And Joshua said, Why hast thou troubled us? the Lord shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones.
²⁶And they raised over him a great heap of stones unto this day. So the Lord turned from the fierceness of his anger. Wherefore the name of that place was called, The valley of Achor, unto this day. (Josh. 7:24‑26)

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Matt. 27:3‑5• ³Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,
⁴Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that.
⁵And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself. (Matt. 27:3‑5)

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Acts 5:4‑5• ⁴Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.
⁵And Ananias hearing these words fell down, and gave up the ghost: and great fear came on all them that heard these things. (Acts 5:4‑5)

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Acts 8:20• ²⁰But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money. (Acts 8:20)

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2 Peter 2:3• ³And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not. (2 Peter 2:3)

• Faith makes Christ all, which the young man did not: else he had not gone away with a fallen countenance from Him who never fails to give peace to the most tried believer, and fills with joy the most forlorn. (“On 1 Timothy 6:9-10” by W. Kelly)

• Wealth practically means the possession of much more than we need for ourselves or the poor from day to day, what is over and above godly use, what therefore can only be for show or indulgence, for lavishness or for hoarding. (“On 1 Timothy 6:9-10” by W. Kelly)

• It has been pointed out that this word "desire" includes the idea of purpose. The danger is that the believer, instead of being content to earn his living, may set himself with "purpose" of heart to be rich. (“Warnings Against Pride of the Flesh and Instruction in Piety: 1 Timothy 6” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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But those who desired to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and many unwise and hurtful lusts, which plunge men into destruction and ruin.

JND Translation Notes

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"Desire" includes the idea of purpose here.

W. Kelly Translation

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But those that wish to be rich fall into temptation and a snarea, and many unwise and hurtful lusts, such as sink men into destruction and perdition.

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Not a few MSS. and versions add "of the devil"; but this is superfluous if not narrow, no doubt due to chap. 3:7.