but it is great gain -- the piety with contentment;1 Timothy 6:6 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the BibleBut godliness with contentment is great gain - The word godliness, ευσεβεια, here, and in several other places of this epistle, signifies the true religion, Christianity; and the word contentment, αυταρκεια, signifies a competency, a sufficiency; that measure or portion of secular things which is necessary for the support of life, while the great work of regeneration is carrying on in the soul. Not what this or the other person may deem a competency, but what is necessary for the mere purposes of life in reference to another world; food, raiment, and lodging. See 1 Timothy 6:7. So, if a man have the life of God in his soul, and just a sufficiency of food and raiment to preserve and not burden life, he has what God calls great gain, an abundant portion.
It requires but little of this world's goods to satisfy a man who feels himself to be a citizen of another country, and knows that this is not his rest.
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1 Timothy 4:8 For bodily exercise profits little: but godliness is profitable to all things, having promise of the life that now is...
Psalm 37:16 A little that a righteous man has is better than the riches of many wicked.
Psalm 84:11 For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
Proverbs 3:13-18 Happy is the man that finds wisdom, and the man that gets understanding...
Proverbs 8:18-21 Riches and honor are with me; yes, durable riches and righteousness...
Proverbs 15:16 Better is little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble therewith.
Proverbs 16:8 Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.
Matthew 6:32,33 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knows that you have need of all these things...
Luke 12:31,32 But rather seek you the kingdom of God; and all these things shall be added to you...
Romans 5:3-5 And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation works patience...
Romans 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
2 Corinthians 4:17,18 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, works for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory...
2 Corinthians 5:1 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands...
Philippians 1:21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
Hebrews 13:5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as you have: for he has said, I will never leave you...
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1 Timothy 6:8 And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.
Exodus 2:21 And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.
Luke 3:14 And the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what shall we do? And he said to them, Do violence to no man...
Philippians 4:11-13 Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatever state I am, therewith to be content...
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