4. is swollen with pride and knows nothing. He has an unhealthy desire to argue and quarrel about words, and this brings on jealousy, disputes, insults, evil suspicions,
5. and constant arguments from people whose minds do not function and who no longer have the truth. They think that religion is a way to become rich.
6. Well, religion does make a person very rich, if he is satisfied with what he has.
7. What did we bring into the world? Nothing! What can we take out of the world? Nothing!
8. So then, if we have food and clothes, that should be enough for us.
9. But those who want to get rich fall into temptation and are caught in the trap of many foolish and harmful desires, which pull them down to ruin and destruction.
10. For the love of money is a source of all kinds of evil. Some have been so eager to have it that they have wandered away from the faith and have broken their hearts with many sorrows.
11. But you, man of God, avoid all these things. Strive for righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance, and gentleness.
12. Run your best in the race of faith, and win eternal life for yourself; for it was to this life that God called you when you firmly professed your faith before many witnesses.