6 Now godliness with contentment is great gain'

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• 6 Now godliness with contentment is great
  gain.
• 7 For
  1. we
  brought nothing into this world,
  2. and it
  is certain we can carry nothing out.
• 8 And having food and clothing,
  with these we
  shall be content.
• 9 But those who desire to be rich
  1.fall into temptation and a
  snare, 2. and into many
  foolish and harmful lusts 3.which drown men
  in destruction and perdition.

Explanation
Main point!
Solution
Warning
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• 6 Now godliness with contentment is great
  gain.
• 7 For
  1. we
  brought nothing into this world,
  2. and it
  is certain we can carry nothing out.
• 8 And having food and clothing,
  with these we
  shall be content.
• 9 But those who desire to be rich
  1.fall into temptation and a
  snare, 2. and into many
  foolish and harmful lusts 3.which drown men
  in destruction and perdition.

Heb 135 Your conduct must be free from the love
of money and you must be content with what you
have, for he has said, I will never leave you
and I will never abandon you.
1 Tim 63-5 Paul goes after these two behavior
patterns with this correction.
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• 6 Now godliness with contentment is great
  gain.
• 7 For
  1. we
  brought nothing into this world,
  2. and it
  is certain we can carry nothing out.
• 8 And having food and clothing,
  with these we
  shall be content.
• 9 But those who desire to be rich
  1.fall into temptation and a
  snare, 2. and into many
  foolish and harmful lusts 3.which drown men
  in destruction and perdition.

Job 121 He said, Naked I came from my mothers
womb, and naked I will return there. The Lord
gives, and the Lord takes away. Blessed be the
name of the Lord. Eccl 515 Just as he came forth
from his mother's womb, naked will he return as
he came, and he will take nothing in his hand
that he may carry away from his toil.
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• 6 Now godliness with contentment is great
  gain.
• 7 For
  1. we
  brought nothing into this world,
  2. and it
  is certain we can carry nothing out.
• 8 And having food and clothing,
  with these we
  shall be content.
• 9 But those who desire to be rich
  1.fall into temptation and a
  snare, 2. and into many
  foolish and harmful lusts 3.which drown men
  in destruction and perdition.

Does this mean this is all we can have? Or is it
an attitude? Why?
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• 6 Now godliness with contentment is great
  gain.
• 7 For
  1. we
  brought nothing into this world,
  2. and it
  is certain we can carry nothing out.
• 8 And having food and clothing,
  with these we
  shall be content.
• 9 But those who desire to be rich
  1.fall into temptation and a
  snare, 2. and into many
  foolish and harmful lusts 3.which drown men
  in destruction and perdition.

Note Verse 10 and 17
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• 6 Now godliness with contentment is great
  gain.
• 7 For
  1. we
  brought nothing into this world,
  2. and it
  is certain we can carry nothing out.
• 8 And having food and clothing,
  with these we
  shall be content.
• 9 But those who desire to be rich
  1. fall into temptation and a
  snare, 2. and into many
  foolish and harmful lusts 3.which drown men
  in destruction and perdition.

Note the words desire and love vs 10.
On the way to destruction
Final result of the fall.
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• 10 For the love of money
  is a
  root
• of all kinds of evil,
• for which some have strayed from the faith
  in their greediness,
  
  and pierced themselves through with many
  sorrows.
  
• 11 But you, O man of God, flee these things and
  pursue
  
  righteousness, godliness,
  faith, love, patience,
  
  gentleness.
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End result
Reason
On the way to ruin
The very opposites of those ruinous things above.
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• 12 Fight the good fight of faith,
  lay hold
  on eternal life,
  to which you were also
  called
  and have confessed the good confession
  in the presence of many
  witnesses.
• 13 I urge you in the sight of God who
  gives life to all things,
  
  and before Christ
  Jesus
  who witnessed the good confession before
  Pontius Pilate,
• 14 that you keep this commandment without spot,
  blameless until our Lord Jesus Christs
  appearing,

lay hold of that eternal life you were called for
.
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• 12 Fight the good fight of faith,
  lay hold
  on eternal life,
  to which you were also
  called
  and have confessed the good confession
  in the presence of many
  witnesses.
• 13 I urge you in the sight of God who
  gives life to all things,
  
  and before Christ Jesus
  who witnessed the good
  confession before Pontius Pilate,
  
  14 that you keep this commandment without
  spot, blameless until our Lord Jesus Christs
  appearing,

This phrase literally means compete in the good
competition of the faith, using words that may
refer to a race or to a boxing or wrestling
match run the good race or fight the good
fight.
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• 12 Fight the good fight of faith,
  lay hold
  on eternal life,
  to which you were also
  called
  and have confessed the good confession
  in the presence of many
  witnesses.
• 13 I urge you in the sight of God who
  gives life to all things,
  
  and before Christ
  Jesus
  who witnessed the good confession before
  Pontius Pilate, (see Matt 2711, Mark 152, Luke
  233,)
  14 that you keep this
  commandment without spot, blameless until our
  Lord Jesus Christs appearing,

At some point in Timothys life, he publicly
acknowledged Jesus as the resurrected Lord,
perhaps either at his baptism or his ordination
as a minister of the gospel. (see G. W. Knight,
Pastoral Epistles
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• 12 Fight the good fight of faith,
  lay hold
  on eternal life,
  to which you were also
  called
  and have confessed the good confession
  in the presence of many
  witnesses.
• 13 I urge you in the sight of God who
  gives life to all things,
  
  and before Christ
  Jesus
  who witnessed the good confession before
  Pontius Pilate, (see Matt 2711, Mark 152, Luke
  233,)

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• 14 that you keep this commandment
  1. without spot, blameless
  2. until our Lord Jesus Christs
  appearing,
• 15 which He will manifest in His own time,
  He who is the blessed
  and only Potentate, the King of kings
  and Lord of lords,
  
  16 who alone has immortality,
  dwelling in unapproachable
  light, whom no man
  has seen
  
  or can see,
  to whom be honor and everlasting
  power. Amen.
  
  

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• 14 that you keep this commandment
  1. without spot, blameless
  2. until our Lord Jesus Christs
  appearing,
• 15 which He will manifest in His own time,
  He who is the blessed
  and only Potentate, the King of kings
  and Lord of lords,
  
  16 who alone has immortality,
  dwelling in unapproachable
  light, whom no man
  has seen
  
  or can see,
  to whom be honor and everlasting
  power. Amen.
  
  

1Cor 1550 Now this is what I am saying, brothers
and sisters Flesh and blood cannot inherit the
kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit
the imperishable. 1551 Listen, I will tell you a
mystery We will not all sleep, but we will all
be changed 1552 in a moment, in the blinking
of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet
will sound, and the dead will be raised
imperishable, and we will be changed. 1553 For
this perishable body must put on the
imperishable, and this mortal body must put on
immortality. 1554 Now when this perishable puts
on the imperishable, and this mortal puts on
immortality, then the saying that is written will
happen, Death has been swallowed up in
victory. 1555 Where, O death, is your
victory? Where, O death, is your sting?
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• 17 Command those who are rich in this present age
  1.not to be haughty,
  2.nor to trust in uncertain riches
  3.but in the living God, who
  gives us richly all things to enjoy.
  
• 18 Let them do good, that they be rich in good
  works,
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  ready to give, willing to share,
  
  19 storing up for
  themselves
  a good foundation for the time to come,
  that they may lay hold on
  eternal life.    

Result of doing good!
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• 20 O Timothy!
  Guard what
  was committed to your trust,
• avoiding the profane and idle
  babblings and contradictions of what is falsely
  called knowledge 21 by professing it some have
  strayed concerning the faith. Grace be with you.
  Amen.

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