For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
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Those that make a trade of Christianity to serve their turn for this world, will be disappointed; but those who mind it as their calling, will find it has the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come.
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This thought runs through 1 Timothy 6:8-12.
1 Timothy 6:10 quoted in popular culture
- Capitalism
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- English proverbs (alphabetically by proverb)
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- Hyperechios
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- Isaac Asimov
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- Kent Hovind
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- Martin Luther King Jr.
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- Misquotations
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- Money
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- R. H. Tawney
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- Religious views on capitalism
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- Samuel Butler (novelist)
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