1st-Timothy:6 Parallel Bible - ASV WEY |
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| | The American Standard Version Online Bible (ASV) | The Weymouth New Testament Online Bible (WEY) |
| 1st-Timothy 6:1 | Let as many as are servants under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and the doctrine be not blasphemed. | Let all who are under the yoke of slavery hold their own masters to be deserving of honour, so that the name of God and the Christian teaching may not be spoken against. |
| 1st-Timothy 6:2 | And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren; but let them serve them the rather, because they that partake of the benefit are believing and beloved. These things teach and exhort. | And those who have believing masters should not be wanting in respect towards them because they are their brethren, but should serve them all the more willingly because those who profit by the faithful service rendered are believers and are friends. |
| 1st-Timothy 6:3 | If any man teacheth a different doctrine, and consenteth not to sound words, [even] the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; | So teach and exhort. If any one is a teacher of any other kind of doctrine, and refuses assent to wholesome instructions those of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that harmonizes with true godliness, |
| 1st-Timothy 6:4 | he is puffed up, knowing nothing, but doting about questionings and disputes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, | he is puffed up with pride and has no true knowledge, but is crazy over discussions and controversies about words which give rise to envy, quarrelling, revilings, ill-natured suspicions, |
| 1st-Timothy 6:5 | wranglings of men corrupted in mind and bereft of the truth, supposing that godliness is a way of gain. | and persistent wranglings on the part of people whose intellects are disordered and they themselves blinded to all knowledge of the truth; who imagine that godliness means gain. |
| 1st-Timothy 6:6 | But godliness with contentment is great gain: | And godliness *is* gain, when associated with contentment; |
| 1st-Timothy 6:7 | for we brought nothing into the world, for neither can we carry anything out; | for we brought nothing into the world, nor can we carry anything out of it; |
| 1st-Timothy 6:8 | but having food and covering we shall be therewith content. | and if we have food and clothing, with these we will be satisfied. |
| 1st-Timothy 6:9 | But they that are minded to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and hurtful lusts, such as drown men in destruction and perdition. | But people who are determined to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many unwise and pernicious ways which sink mankind in destruction and ruin. |
| 1st-Timothy 6:10 | For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil: which some reaching after have been led astray from the faith, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows. | For from love of money all sorts of evils arise; and some have so hankered after money as to be led astray from the faith and be pierced through with countless sorrows. |
| 1st-Timothy 6:11 | But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness. | But you, O man of God, must flee from these things; and strive for uprightness, godliness, good faith, love, fortitude, and a forgiving temper. |
| 1st-Timothy 6:12 | Fight the good fight of the faith, lay hold on the life eternal, whereunto thou wast called, and didst confess the good confession in the sight of many witnesses. | Exert all your strength in the honourable struggle for the faith; lay hold of the Life of the Ages, to which you were called, when you made your noble profession of faith before many witnesses. |
| 1st-Timothy 6:13 | I charge thee in the sight of God, who giveth life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed the good confession; | I charge you as in the presence of God who gives life to all creatures, and of Christ Jesus who at the bar of Pontius Pilate made a noble profession of faith |
| 1st-Timothy 6:14 | that thou keep the commandment, without spot, without reproach, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ: | that you keep God's commandments stainlessly and without reproach till the Appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ. |
| 1st-Timothy 6:15 | which in its own times he shall show, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords; | For, as its appointed time, this will be brought about by the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords, |
| 1st-Timothy 6:16 | who only hath immortality, dwelling in light unapproachable; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom [be] honor and power eternal. Amen. | who alone possesses immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, and whom no man has seen or can see. To Him be eternal honour and power! Amen. |
| 1st-Timothy 6:17 | Charge them that are rich in this present world, that they be not highminded, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy; | Impress on those who are rich in the present age that they must not be haughty nor set their hopes on riches that unstable foundation but on God who provides us richly with all things for our enjoyment. |
| 1st-Timothy 6:18 | that they do good, that they be rich in good works, that they be ready to distribute, willing to communicate; | They must be beneficent, rich in noble deeds, open-handed and liberal; |
| 1st-Timothy 6:19 | laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on the life which is [life] indeed. | storing up for themselves that which shall be a solid foundation for the future, that they may lay hold of the Life which is life indeed. |
| 1st-Timothy 6:20 | O Timothy, guard that which is committed unto [thee], turning away from the profane babblings and oppositions of the knowledge which is falsely so called; | O Timothy, guard the truths entrusted to you, shunning irreligious and frivolous talk, and controversy with what is falsely called `knowledge'; |
| 1st-Timothy 6:21 | which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with you. | of which some have spoken boastfully in connexion with the true faith, and have erred. Grace be with you all. |
| | The American Standard Version Online Bible (ASV) | The Weymouth New Testament Online Bible (WEY) |
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