1 Timothy 6:1-7 ▼

1 Let as many as are slaves under a yoke account their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and the teaching be not blasphemed.

2 And let those having believing masters not despise them, because they are brethren; but let them serve them the more, because they are faithful and beloved, who are partakers of the benefit. These things teach and exhort.

3 If anyone teaches otherwise, and consents not to healthful words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the teaching according to godliness,

4 he has become puffed up, knowing nothing, but morbid about questions and word-battles, out of which come envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,

5 wranglings of men corrupted in mind and bereft of the truth, supposing godliness to be a source of gain.

6 But godliness with contentment is a great source of gain;

7 for nothing have we brought into the world, neither can we carry anything out;