He is puffed up and knoweth nothing, but doteth about questions and [a]strive of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,

Froward [b]disputations of men of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, which think that gain is godliness: from such separate thyself.

[c]But godliness is great gain, if a man be content with that he hath.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Timothy 6:4 Striving about words, and not about matter: and by words he meaneth all those things which have no pith in them, and whereby we can reap no profit.
  2. 1 Timothy 6:5 Such as we see in those shameless schools of Popery, which are nothing else but vain babbling and prating.
  3. 1 Timothy 6:6 He turneth away fitly the name of gain and lucre, confessing that godliness is great gain, but far after another sort, to wit, because it bringeth true sufficience.

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