1 Timothy 6:8

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1 Timothy 6:6–10 · Berean Standard Bible

6 Of course, godliness with contentment is great gain.

7 For we brought nothing into the world, so we cannot carry anything out of it.

8 But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with these.

9 Those who want to be rich, however, fall into temptation and become ensnared by many foolish and harmful desires that plunge them into ruin and destruction.

10 For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. By craving it, some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many sorrows.

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Genesis 28:20

Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me and watch over me on this journey, and if He will provide me with food to eat and clothes to wear,

Genesis 48:15

Then he blessed Joseph and said: “May the God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has been my shepherd all my life to this day,

Deuteronomy 2:7

Indeed, the LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has watched over your journey through this vast wilderness. The LORD your God has been with you these forty years, and you have lacked nothing.

Deuteronomy 8:3

He humbled you, and in your hunger He gave you manna to eat, which neither you nor your fathers had known, so that you might understand that man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.

Deuteronomy 8:4

Your clothing did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these forty years.

Proverbs 27:23

Be sure to know the state of your flocks, and pay close attention to your herds;

Proverbs 27:24

for riches are not forever, nor does a crown endure to every generation.

Proverbs 27:25

When hay is removed and new growth appears and the grain from the hills is gathered,

Proverbs 27:26

the lambs will provide you with clothing, and the goats with the price of a field.

Proverbs 27:27

You will have plenty of goats’ milk to feed you— food for your household and nourishment for your maidservants.

Proverbs 30:8

Keep falsehood and deceitful words far from me. Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the bread that is my portion.

Proverbs 30:9

Otherwise, I may have too much and deny You, saying, ‘Who is the LORD?’ Or I may become poor and steal, profaning the name of my God.

Ecclesiastes 2:24

Nothing is better for a man than to eat and drink and enjoy his work. I have also seen that this is from the hand of God.

Ecclesiastes 2:25

For apart from Him, who can eat and who can find enjoyment?

Ecclesiastes 2:26

To the man who is pleasing in His sight, He gives wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner He assigns the task of gathering and accumulating that which he will hand over to one who pleases God. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

Ecclesiastes 3:12

I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice and do good while they live,

Ecclesiastes 3:13

and also that every man should eat and drink and find satisfaction in all his labor—this is the gift of God.

Matthew 6:11

Give us this day our daily bread.

Matthew 6:25

Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?

Matthew 6:26

Look at the birds of the air: They do not sow or reap or gather into barns—and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?

Matthew 6:27

Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?

Matthew 6:28

And why do you worry about clothes? Consider how the lilies of the field grow: They do not labor or spin.

Matthew 6:29

Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his glory was adorned like one of these.

Matthew 6:30

If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?

Matthew 6:31

Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’

Matthew 6:32

For the Gentiles strive after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.

Matthew 6:33

But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you.

Hebrews 13:5

Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, for God has said: “Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you.”

Hebrews 13:6

So we say with confidence: “The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?”