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1 Timothy 6:7 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 7. 7For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.
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Role in This Section
This verse grounds contentment in the fact that people bring nothing into the world and carry nothing out.
Read It With
- 1 Timothy 6:3–10
Read 1 Timothy 6:7 with 6:3–10. This verse grounds contentment in the fact that people bring nothing into the world and carry nothing out. The complete unit establishes this movement: Teaching that rejects Christ's healthy words and treats godliness as profit produces conflict; true gain is godliness with contentment, because wealth cannot cross death and the desire to be rich traps and wounds people.
Why It Needs Context
Read this line with 1 Timothy 6:3–10. The surrounding verses supply the complete movement summarized here: Teaching that rejects Christ's healthy words and treats godliness as profit produces conflict; true gain is godliness with contentment, because wealth cannot cross death and the desire to be rich traps and wounds people.
Read 1 Timothy 6:3–10 together
Why these verses belong together: Unhealthy teaching, religious profit, contentment, mortality, basic provision, wealth desire, and money-love interpret one another.
Verse 3. 3 If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;
Verse 4. 4 He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,
Verse 5. 5 Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.
Verse 6. 6 But godliness with contentment is great gain.
Verse 7. 7 For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.
Verse 8. 8 And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.
Verse 9. 9 But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
Verse 10. 10 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.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read 1 Timothy 6:3–10 — Godliness Is Not a Profit SchemeSources used for this context pointer
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
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Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording, paragraph markers, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage.
Exact location: 1 Timothy 6:3–10, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗Greek textual evidence
The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition
Michael W. Holmes, editor; Society of Biblical Literature and Logos
Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software, 2010
Supports: Greek wording, clause relationships, morphology targets, and base text for original-language discussion.
Exact location: Faithlife SBLGNT repository, data/sblgnt/text/1Tim.txt, 6:3–10
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