1 Timothy 6:9

WEB

⁹But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation, a snare, and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.

KJV

⁹But 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.

BSB

⁹Those who want to be rich, however, fall into temptation and become ensnared by many foolish and harmful desires that plunge them into ruin and destruction.

FBV

⁹Those who are determined to become rich fall into the trap of temptation, following many foolish and damaging impulses.

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Extra References

1 John 2:15-17

¹⁵Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him. ¹⁶For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s. ¹⁷The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.

Proverbs 28:20-22

²⁰A faithful man is rich with blessings; but one who is eager to be rich will not go unpunished. ²¹To show partiality is not good, yet a man will do wrong for a piece of bread. ²²A stingy man hurries after riches, and doesn’t know that poverty waits for him.

Proverbs 15:27

²⁷He who is greedy for gain troubles his own house, but he who hates bribes will live.

1 Timothy 3:7

⁷Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.

Acts 8:20

²⁰But Peter said to him, “May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money!

Mark 4:19

¹⁹and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

2 Peter 2:3

³In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

Matthew 13:22

²²What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.

Ephesians 4:22

²²that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit,

James 5:1-4

¹Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you. ²Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten. ³Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days. ⁴Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.