5. and constant bickering by people corrupted in their minds and deprived of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a way of making a profit.
6. Now godliness combined with contentment brings great profit.
7. For we have brought nothing into this world and so we cannot take a single thing out either.
8. But if we have food and shelter, we will be satisfied with that.
9. Those who long to be rich, however, stumble into temptation and a trap and many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.
10. For the love of money is the root of all evils. Some people in reaching for it have strayed from the faith and stabbed themselves with many pains.
11. But you, as a person dedicated to God, keep away from all that. Instead pursue righteousness, godliness, faithfulness, love, endurance, and gentleness.
12. Compete well for the faith and lay hold of that eternal life you were called for and made your good confession for in the presence of many witnesses.
13. I charge you before God who gives life to all things and Christ Jesus who made his good confession before Pontius Pilate,