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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 aboundeth with blessings;{HR}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 thoroughly watered, before Jehovah had destroyed Sodom and Gomorrha; as the garden of Jehovah, like the land of Egypt, as one goes to Zoar.
¹¹And Lot chose for himself all the plain of the Jordan; and Lot went toward the east. And they separated the one from the other:
¹²Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan; and Lot dwelt in the cities of the plain, and pitched tents as far as Sodom.
¹³And the people of Sodom were wicked, and great sinners before Jehovah. (Gen. 13:10‑13)

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Num. 22:17‑19• ¹⁷for I will promote thee unto very great honour, and I will do whatsoever thou sayest unto me: come therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people.
¹⁸And Balaam answered and said to the servants of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of Jehovah my God, to do less or more.
¹⁹Now therefore, I pray you, tarry ye also here this night, that I may know what Jehovah 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• ²⁰And Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my master has spared Naaman, this Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought; but as Jehovah liveth, I will run after him and take somewhat of him.
²¹And Gehazi followed after Naaman. And when Naaman saw him running after him, he sprang down from the chariot to meet him, and said, Is all well?
²²And he said, All is well. My master has sent me saying, Behold, even now there are 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 raiment.
²³And Naaman said, Consent to take two talents. And he urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of raiment, and laid them upon two of his young men; and they bore them before him.
²⁴And when he came to the hill, he took them from their hand, and stowed them in the house; and he let the men go, and they departed.
²⁵And he entered in and stood before his master.
²⁶And he said to him, Did not my heart go, 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 bondmen, and bondwomen?
²⁷But the leprosy of Naaman shall fasten upon thee, and upon thy seed forever. And he went out from his presence leprous, as snow. (2 Kings 5:20‑27)

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

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Prov. 20:21• ²¹An inheritance hastily gotten at the beginning{HR}Will not be blessed at the end. (Prov. 20:21)

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Prov. 21:6• ⁶The getting of treasures by a lying tongue{HR}[Is] a fleeting breath of them that seek death. (Prov. 21:6)

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Prov. 22:16• ¹⁶He that oppresseth the poor to increase his [wealth],{HR}He that giveth to the rich, surely [cometh] only to want. (Prov. 22:16)

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Prov. 28:20‑22• ²⁰A faithful man aboundeth with blessings;{HR}But he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.
²¹To have respect of persons is not good;{HR}But for a piece of bread will a man transgress.
²²He that hath an evil eye hasteth after wealth,{HR}And knoweth 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 room, and ye be made to dwell alone in the midst of the land! (Isa. 5:8)

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Hos. 12:7‑8• ⁷A merchant [Canaan], the balance of deceit in his hand, he loveth to overreach!
⁸And Ephraim said, I am simply become rich; I have found me out substances: it is all my labours. They will find no iniquity in me that is sin. (Hos. 12:7‑8)

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Amos 8:4‑6• ⁴Hear this, ye that pant after the needy, even to cause to fail the poor of the land,
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 for deceit:
⁶that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; and that we may 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 Jehovah; for I am rich: and their own shepherds pity them not. (Zech. 11:5)

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Matt. 13:22• ²²And he that is sown among the thorns — this is he who hears the word, and the anxious care of this life, and the deceit of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful. (Matt. 13:22)

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Matt. 19:22• ²²But the young man, having heard the word, went away grieved, for he had large possessions. (Matt. 19:22)

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Matt. 26:15• ¹⁵and said, What are ye willing to give me, and I will deliver him up to you? And they appointed to him thirty pieces of silver. (Matt. 26:15)

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James 5:1‑4• ¹Come then, ye rich, weep, howling over your miseries that are coming on.
²Your wealth is corrupted, and your garments are become moth-eaten.
³Your gold and [your] silver are rusted through, and their rust shall be for a witness to you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye laid up treasure in [the] last days.
⁴Behold, the hire of the labourers who reaped your fields, that is kept back of you crieth out, and the cries of those that reaped entered into the ears of Jehovah of hosts. (James 5:1‑4)

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2 Peter 2:15‑16• ¹⁵abandoning as they did a straight way, they went astray, following out in the way of Balaam [son] of Beor, who loved wages of unrighteousness,
¹⁶but had reproof of his own iniquity; a dumb beast of burden speaking with man's voice forbade the madness of the prophet. (2 Peter 2:15‑16)

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Jude 11• ¹¹Woe unto them! because they went in the way of Cain, and rushed greedily into the error of Balaam's hire, and perished in the gainsaying of Korah. (Jude 11)

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1 Tim. 3:7• ⁷But he must also have good testimony from those without, lest he fall into reproach and a 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 covet the silver and gold that is on them and take it unto thee, lest thou be ensnared therein; for it is an abomination to Jehovah thy God. (Deut. 7:25)

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Psa. 11:6• ⁶He will rain upon the wicked snares, fire and brimstone{HR}And a burning tempest—the portion of their cup. (Psa. 11:6)

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Prov. 1:17‑19• ¹⁷For in vain is the net spread in the eyes of a bird;
¹⁸And they lay wait for their own blood;{HR}They lurk privily for their own lives.
¹⁹So (are) the paths of every one that is greedy of gain:{HR}It taketh away the life of its owners. (Prov. 1:17‑19)

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Luke 21:35• ³⁵for as a snare it will come upon all that are settled down upon the face of the whole earth. (Luke 21:35)

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2 Tim. 2:26• ²⁶and they may wake up out of the snare of the devil, taken as they are by him, for his will. (2 Tim. 2:26)

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

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Eph. 4:22• ²²that ye should put off, according to your former conversation, the old man that is corrupt according to the lusts of deceit, (Eph. 4:22)

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1 John 2:15‑17• ¹⁵Love not the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loveth the world, the love of the Father is not in him:
¹⁶because all that [is] in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
¹⁷And the world is passing, and its lust; but he that doeth the will of God abideth forever. (1 John 2:15‑17)

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1 Tim. 1:9• ⁹knowing this that law is not laid down for a righteous person, but for lawless and insubordinate, for ungodly and sinful, for unholy and profane, for smiters of fathers and smiters of mothers, for murderers, (1 Tim. 1:9)

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Num. 31:8• ⁸And they slew the kings of Midian, besides the others slain, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, five kings of Midian; and Balaam 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? Jehovah 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 Jehovah turned from the fierceness of His anger. Therefore the name of that place was called, The Valley of Achor, to this day. (Josh. 7:24‑26)

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Matt. 27:3‑5• ³Then Judas, who delivered him up, seeing that he had been condemned, filled with remorse, returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders,
⁴saying, I have sinned [in] having delivered up guiltless blood. But they said, What is that to us? see thou [to that].
⁵And having cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, he left the place, and went away and hanged himself. (Matt. 27:3‑5)

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Acts 5:4‑5• ⁴When it remained, did it not remain to thee; and when sold, was it not in thy power? How [is it] that thou conceivedst this thing in thy heart? Thou didst lie not to men but to God.
⁵And Ananias hearing these words fell down and expired; and great fear came upon all the hearers, (Acts 5:4‑5)

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Acts 8:20• ²⁰But Peter said to him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou thoughtest to obtain the gift of God through money. (Acts 8:20)

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2 Peter 2:3• ³And in covetousness with feigned words, they shall make merchandise of you: for whom judgment from of old is not idle, and their perdition 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.

WK Translation Notes

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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.