1 Timothy 6:4-6

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

⁴ He is puffed up with pride and stupefied with conceit, [although he is] woefully ignorant. He has a ^[a]morbid fondness for controversy and disputes and strife about words, which result in (produce) envy and jealousy, quarrels and dissension, abuse and insults and slander, and base suspicions,

⁵ And protracted wrangling and wearing discussion and perpetual friction among men who are corrupted in mind and bereft of the truth, who imagine that godliness or righteousness is a ^[b]source of profit [a moneymaking business, a means of livelihood]. From such withdraw.

⁶ [And it is, indeed, a source of immense profit, for] godliness accompanied with contentment (that contentment which is a sense of ^[c]inward sufficiency) is great and abundant gain.