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1 Timothy uses language similar to Ecclesiastes when teaching that loving money leads to worry and loss. Ecclesiastes calls wealth fleeting and empty, and 1 Timothy echoes this, describing the desire for wealth as a path to destruction.
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Ecclesiastes 5:13
Hebrew Bible
10 The one who loves money will never be satisfied with money; he who loves wealth will never be satisfied with his income. This also is futile. 11 When someone’s prosperity increases, those who consume it also increase; so what does its owner gain, except that he gets to see it with his eyes? 12 The sleep of the laborer is pleasant—whether he eats little or much—but the wealth of the rich will not allow him to sleep. 13 Here is a misfortune on earth that I have seen: Wealth hoarded by its owner to his own misery. 14 Then that wealth was lost through bad luck; although he fathered a son, he has nothing left to give him. 15 Just as he came forth from his mother’s womb, naked will he return as he came, and he will take nothing in his hand that he may carry away from his toil.
Date: 3rd Century B.C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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1 Timothy 6:10
New Testament
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.
Date: 65 C.E. (If authentic), 90-100 C.E. (If anonymous) (based on scholarly estimates)
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