Choose Contentment
(The Danger of Loving Money)

Choose Contentment

Contentment in Christ is greater than earthly wealth. Believers should practice stewardship and have an eternal perspective on things.

6 Let all who are under a yoke as bondservants regard their own masters as worthy of all honor, so that the name of God and the teaching may not be reviled. ² Those who have believing masters must not be disrespectful on the ground that they are brothers; rather they must serve all the better since those who benefit by their good service are believers and beloved.

False Teachers and True Contentment

Teach and urge these things. ³  If anyone teaches a different doctrine and does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that accords with godliness, ⁴  he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions, ⁵  and constant friction among people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain. ⁶  But godliness with contentment is great gain, ⁷  for we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world. ⁸  But if we have food and clothing, with these we will be content. ⁹  But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. ¹⁰  For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.