1 Timothy 6:5 BSB — MannaFest

1 Timothy 6:5

and constant friction between men of depraved mind who are devoid of the truth. These men regard godliness as a means of gain.

BSB

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ASV

wranglings of men corrupted in mind and bereft of the truth, supposing that godliness is a way of gain.

KJV

Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.

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Commentary

4 voices

Jerome

HOMILIES ON MARK 83 (420)

It is of all of us … that the apostle speaks. Christ is a pauper, let us blush with shame. Christ is lowly, let us be made lowly. Christ was crucified. He did not rule. He was crucified in order to rule. He conquered the world, not in pride but in humility. He destroyed the devil, not by derisive laughter but by weeping; he did not scourge but was scourged. He received a blow but did not give blows. Let us, therefore, imitate our Lord.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

Supposing that gain is godliness - Thinking the best religion is the getting of money: a far more common case than is usually supposed.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Observe, We are not required to consent to any words as wholesome words except the words of our Lord Jesus Christ; but to those we must give our unfeigned assent and consent, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness. Observe, The doctrine of our Lord Jesus is a doctrine according to godliness; it has a direct tendency to make people godly.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Perverse disputings - Margin, “gallings one of another.” In regard to the correct reading of this passage, see Bib. Repository, vol. iii. pp. 61, 62. The word which is here used in the Received Text - παραδιατρίβη paradiatribē - occurs nowhere else in the New Testament. It properly means “mis-employment;” then “idle occupation.” (Robinson’s Lexicon) The verb from which this is derived means to “rub in pieces, to wear away;” and hence the word here used refers to what was a mere “wearing away” of time. The idea is that of employments that merely consumed time without any advantage.

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Original language & word study

14 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
διαπαρατριβαὶ	diaparatribai	[and] constant frictions	G3859 →
διεφθαρμένων	diephtharmenōn	corrupted	G1311 →
ἀνθρώπων	anthrōpōn	among men	G444 →
τὸν	ton	<the>	G3588 →
νοῦν	noun	in mind	G3563 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ἀπεστερημένων	apesterēmenōn	defrauded	G650 →
τῆς	tēs	of the	G3588 →
ἀληθείας,	alētheias	truth,	G225 →
νομιζόντων	nomizontōn	holding	G3543 →
πορισμὸν	porismon	a means of gain	G4200 →
εἶναι	einai	to be	G1511 →
τὴν	tēn	<the>	G3588 →
εὐσέβειαν	eusebeian	godliness	G2150 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
2 Timothy 3:5
having a form of godliness but denying its power. Turn away from such as these!
leads to
- Isaiah 29:13
  Therefore the Lord said: “These people draw near to Me with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. Their worship of Me is but rules taught…
- Titus 1:16
  They profess to know God, but by their actions they deny Him. They are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good deed.
- Matthew 23:27–28
  Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside, but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and every kind of impurity.
- 1 Timothy 5:8
  If anyone does not provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
- Romans 2:20–24
  an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, because you have in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth—
Through
2 Timothy 3:8
Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these men oppose the truth. They are depraved in mind and disqualified from the faith.
leads to
- Revelation 2:20
  But I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. By her teaching she misleads My servants to be sexually immoral and to eat food sacrificed to idols.
- Acts 13:8–11
  But Elymas the sorcerer (for that is what his name means) opposed them and tried to turn the proconsul from the faith.
- Exodus 7:11
  But Pharaoh called the wise men and sorcerers and magicians of Egypt, and they also did the same things by their magic arts.

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About 1 Timothy

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

About 1 Timothy