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King James Version

1 Timothy 6:7

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Covetousness;   Death;   Minister, Christian;   Riches;   Scofield Reference Index - Separation;   Thompson Chain Reference - Certainties;   Earthly;   Poverty-Riches;   Riches, Earthly;   Seven;   Treasures, Earthly;   Uncertainties-Certainties;   The Topic Concordance - Contentment;   Destruction;   Man;   Wealth;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Death, Natural;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Pastor;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Godly, Godliness;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Timothy, the First Epistle to;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Church;   Contentment;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Jangling;   Timothy, Epistles to;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Timothy;   Timothy and Titus Epistles to;   World;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Nothing;   Pastoral Epistles, the;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for December 18;  

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
When we came into the world, we brought nothing. And when we die, we can take nothing out.
Revised Standard Version
for we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world;
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
For we brought nothynge into the worlde and it is a playne case that we can cary nothynge out.
Hebrew Names Version
For we brought nothing into the world, and we certainly can't carry anything out.
New American Standard Bible
For we have brought nothing into the world, so we cannot take anything out of it, either.
New Century Version
We brought nothing into the world, so we can take nothing out.
Update Bible Version
for we brought nothing into the world, for neither can we carry anything out;
Webster's Bible Translation
For we brought nothing into [this] world, [and it is] certain we can carry nothing out.
English Standard Version
for we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world.
World English Bible
For we brought nothing into the world, and we certainly can't carry anything out.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
For we brought nothing into the world: it is manifest that neither can we carry any thing out.
Weymouth's New Testament
for we brought nothing into the world, nor can we carry anything out of it;
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For we brouyten in no thing in to this world, and no doute, that we moun not bere `awey ony thing.
English Revised Version
for we brought nothing into the world, for neither can we carry anything out;
Berean Standard Bible
For we brought nothing into the world, and neither can we carry anything out of it.
Contemporary English Version
We didn't bring anything into this world, and we won't take anything with us when we leave.
Amplified Bible
For we have brought nothing into the world, so [it is clear that] we cannot take anything out of it, either.
American Standard Version
for we brought nothing into the world, for neither can we carry anything out;
Bible in Basic English
For we came into the world with nothing, and we are not able to take anything out;
Complete Jewish Bible
For we have brought nothing into the world; and we can take nothing out of it;
Darby Translation
For we have brought nothing into the world: [it is] [manifest] that neither can we carry anything out.
International Standard Version
For we did not bring anything into the world, and surelysurely">[fn] we cannot take anything out of it.Job 1:1:21; Psalm 49:17; Proverbs 27:24; Ecclesiastes 5:15;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
For nothing brought we into the world, and we know that nothing we are able to take from it.
Murdock Translation
For we brought nothing into the world; and we know that we can carry nothing out of it.
King James Version (1611)
For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certaine we can cary nothing out.
New Living Translation
After all, we brought nothing with us when we came into the world, and we can't take anything with us when we leave it.
New Life Bible
We came into this world with nothing. For sure, when we die, we will take nothing with us.
New Revised Standard
for we brought nothing into the world, so that we can take nothing out of it;
Geneva Bible (1587)
For we brought nothing into the world, and it is certaine, that we can carie nothing out.
George Lamsa Translation
For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, nothing, brought we into the world, neither, to take anything out, are we able; -
Douay-Rheims Bible
For we brought nothing into this world: and certainly we can carry nothing out.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For we brought nothyng into the worlde, and it is certayne that we may carry nought away.
Good News Translation
What did we bring into the world? Nothing! What can we take out of the world? Nothing!
Christian Standard Bible®
For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out.
Lexham English Bible
For we have brought nothing into the world, so that neither can we bring anything out.
Literal Translation
For we have brought nothing into the world, and it is plain that neither can we carry anything out.
Young's Literal Translation
for nothing did we bring into the world -- [it is] manifest that we are able to carry nothing out;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For we broughte nothinge in to the worlde, therfore is it a playne case yt we can cary nothinge out.
Mace New Testament (1729)
we brought nothing into the world, certain it is, we can carry nothing away. having therefore food and raiment,
New English Translation
For we have brought nothing into this world and so we cannot take a single thing out either.
New King James Version
For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain [fn] we can carry nothing out.
Simplified Cowboy Version
We'll leave this world with the same amount of things we brought into the world.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
For we have brought nothing into the world, so we cannot take anything out of it either.
Legacy Standard Bible
For we have brought nothing into the world, so we cannot take anything out of it either.

Contextual Overview

6 But godliness with contentment is great gain. 7 For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. 8 And having food and raiment let us be therewith content. 9 But 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. 10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. 11 But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness. 12 Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

we brought: Job 1:21, Proverbs 27:24, Ecclesiastes 5:15, Ecclesiastes 5:16

certain: Psalms 49:17, Luke 12:20, Luke 12:21, Luke 16:22, Luke 16:23

Reciprocal: Luke 12:15 - Take

Cross-References

Genesis 6:1
And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
Genesis 6:2
That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
Genesis 6:3
And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
Genesis 6:4
There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
Genesis 6:20
Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.
Genesis 6:22
Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.
Psalms 37:20
But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the Lord shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away.
Proverbs 10:27
The fear of the Lord prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.
Proverbs 16:4
The Lord hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.
Hosea 4:3
Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For we brought nothing into this world,.... Which is a reason both clearly showing that godliness is great gain, since those who have it brought nothing into the world with them but sin, and yet are now in such happy circumstances as before described; and that godly persons should be content with what they have, even of worldly things, seeing they are so much more than they had when they came into the world, into which they came naked; and which should be a quieting consideration under the most stripping providences; see Job 1:21

and it is certain we can carry nothing out: as men come into the world, so will they go out of it; nor will they need their worldly substance after death, any more than they did before they were born; and what they now have, and use not, will then be lost to them, whatever gain it may be to others: wherefore it becomes them cheerfully to use what they have, and be content therewith; see Ecclesiastes 5:15. The Jews have a saying like this o, that

"as a man comes (into the world), בחליטין, "simply" or "nakedly", so he goes out in like manner.''

o Bereshit Rabba, sect. 42. fol. 36. 3.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For we brought nothing into this world ... - A sentiment very similar to this occurs in Job 1:21 - and it would seem probable that the apostle had that passage in his eye; see the notes on that passage. Numerous expressions of this kind occur in the classic writers; see Wetstein, in loc., and Pricaeus, in loc. in the Critici Sacri. Of the truth of what is here said, there can be nothing more obvious. It is apparent to all. We bring no property with us into the world - no clothing, no jewels, no gold - and it is equally clear that we can take nothing with us when we leave the earth. Our coming into the world introduces no additional property to that which the race before possessed, and our going from the world removes none that we may have helped the race to accumulate. This is said by the apostle as an obvious reason why we should be contented if our actual needs are supplied - for this is really all that we need, and all that the world is toiling for.

We can carry nothing out - compare Psalms 49:17. “For when he - the rich man - dieth, he shall carry nothing away; his glory shall not descend after him.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 7. We brought nothing into this world — There are some sayings in Seneca which are almost verbatim with this of St. Paul: Nemo nascitur dives; quisquis exit in lucem jussus est lacte et panno esse contentus; Epist. xx, "No man is born rich; every one that comes into the world is commanded to be content with food and raiment." Excutit natura redeuntem, sicut intrantem; non licet plus auferre, quam intuleris; Epist., cap. ii. "Nature, in returning, shakes off all incumbrances as in entering; thou canst not carry back more than thou broughtest in." Seneca and St. Paul were contemporary; but all the Greek and Latin poets, and especially the stoic philosophers, are full of such sentiments. It is a self-evident truth; relative to it there can be no controversy.


 
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