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1 Timothy 6:8
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If we have food and clothing, we will be content with these.
And hauing food and raiment let vs be therewith content.
And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.
But if we have food and clothing, with these we will be content.
If we have food and covering, with these we shall be content.
But, if we have food and clothes, we will be satisfied with that.
If we have food and covering, with these we shall be content.
And if we have food and covering, with these we shall be content.
But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with these.
So we should be satisfied just to have food and clothes.
so if we have food and clothing, we will be satisfied with these.
But having sustenance and covering, we will be content with these.
So, if we have food and clothes, we will be satisfied with that.
Therefore when wee haue foode and raiment, let vs therewith be content.
Therefore, let us be satisfied with food and clothing;
So then, if we have food and clothes, that should be enough for us.
But if we have food and clothing, with these things we will be content.
But having food and clothing, we will be satisfied with these.
But if we have food and clothing, with these we will be content.
but having food and covering we shall be therewith content.
But if we have food and a roof over us, let that be enough.
But having food and clothing, we will be content with that.
So as long as we have food and clothes, we will be satisfied with these.Genesis 28:20; Hebrews 13:5;">[xr]
8 Therefore sufficient to us are food and raiment. [fn]
Therefore, food and clothing satisfy us.
But hauyng foode and rayment, we must therwith be content.
but having food and covering we shall be therewith content.
But having food and clothing, we will be content with that.
Having then food and covering, with these let us be content.
and if we have food and clothing, with these we will be satisfied.
But we hauynge foodis, and with what thingus we schulen be hilid, be we paied with these thingis.
but having food and covering we shall be therewith content.
And having food and raiment, with these let us be content.
But if we have food and shelter, we will be satisfied with that.
And having food and clothing, with these we shall be content.
So if we have enough food and clothing, let us be content.
If we have food and clothing, let us be happy.
but if we have food and clothing, we will be content with these.
And, having sustenance and covering, we shall be content;
But having food and wherewith to be covered, with these we are content.
but if we have food and clothing, with these we shall be content.
When we have fode and rayment let vs therwith be contet.
but having food and raiment -- with these we shall suffice ourselves;
Whan we haue fode and rayment, let vs therwith be content.
we ought to think that sufficient. but they who will be rich, expose
If you have food in your belly and a shirt on your back, then you should be content.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Genesis 28:20, Genesis 48:15, Deuteronomy 2:7, Deuteronomy 8:3, Deuteronomy 8:4, Proverbs 27:23-27, Proverbs 30:8, Proverbs 30:9, Ecclesiastes 2:24-26, Ecclesiastes 3:12, Ecclesiastes 3:13, Matthew 6:11, Matthew 6:25-33, Hebrews 13:5, Hebrews 13:6
Reciprocal: Ruth 1:6 - in giving Proverbs 23:4 - Labour Ecclesiastes 2:22 - hath man Matthew 6:19 - General Luke 3:14 - and be 1 Timothy 6:6 - contentment
Cross-References
"I'm going to bring a flood on the Earth that will destroy everything alive under Heaven. Total destruction.
God sticks by all who love him, but it's all over for those who don't.
A good person basks in the delight of God , and he wants nothing to do with devious schemers.
This is the way God put it: "They found grace out in the desert, these people who survived the killing. Israel, out looking for a place to rest, met God out looking for them!" God told them, "I've never quit loving you and never will. Expect love, love, and more love! And so now I'll start over with you and build you up again, dear virgin Israel. You'll resume your singing, grabbing tambourines and joining the dance. You'll go back to your old work of planting vineyards on the Samaritan hillsides, And sit back and enjoy the fruit— oh, how you'll enjoy those harvests! The time's coming when watchmen will call out from the hilltops of Ephraim: ‘On your feet! Let's go to Zion, go to meet our God !'"
If you're a hard worker and do a good job, you deserve your pay; we don't call your wages a gift. But if you see that the job is too big for you, that it's something only God can do, and you trust him to do it—you could never do it for yourself no matter how hard and long you worked—well, that trusting-him-to-do-it is what gets you set right with God, by God. Sheer gift.
The Loyal Minority Does this mean, then, that God is so fed up with Israel that he'll have nothing more to do with them? Hardly. Remember that I, the one writing these things, am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham out of the tribe of Benjamin. You can't get much more Semitic than that! So we're not talking about repudiation. God has been too long involved with Israel, has too much invested, to simply wash his hands of them. Do you remember that time Elijah was agonizing over this same Israel and cried out in prayer? God, they murdered your prophets, They trashed your altars; I'm the only one left and now they're after me! And do you remember God's answer? I still have seven thousand who haven't quit, Seven thousand who are loyal to the finish. It's the same today. There's a fiercely loyal minority still—not many, perhaps, but probably more than you think. They're holding on, not because of what they think they're going to get out of it, but because they're convinced of God's grace and purpose in choosing them. If they were only thinking of their own immediate self-interest, they would have left long ago.
But because God was so gracious, so very generous, here I am. And I'm not about to let his grace go to waste. Haven't I worked hard trying to do more than any of the others? Even then, my work didn't amount to all that much. It was God giving me the work to do, God giving me the energy to do it. So whether you heard it from me or from those others, it's all the same: We spoke God's truth and you entrusted your lives.
God's readiness to give and forgive is now public. Salvation's available for everyone! We're being shown how to turn our backs on a godless, indulgent life, and how to take on a God-filled, God-honoring life. This new life is starting right now, and is whetting our appetites for the glorious day when our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, appears. He offered himself as a sacrifice to free us from a dark, rebellious life into this good, pure life, making us a people he can be proud of, energetic in goodness.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And having food and raiment,.... "Food" includes all things necessary to be ate and drank, of which there is a great variety, and is here expressed in the plural number; and "raiment" every necessary covering, as the word used signifies, and includes an habitation, which is a cover and shelter from the inclementencies of the weather. And now having all these comforts and necessaries of life, food to eat, and drink to extinguish thirst and refresh, raiment to put on, and a house to dwell in,
let us be therewith content: there is very good reason why the saints should be content; since more than these things cannot be enjoyed; and these they have with a blessing, and as a fruit and token of the love of God to them; these were all that Jacob desired, Agur petitioned for, and Christ directs his disciples daily to pray for; and which to have, is to have enough, a proper sufficiency and competency: the words may be rendered, "we shall be content with them"; which the apostle could say for himself, Timothy, and others, who had been content, even when they wanted these things. The Vulgate Latin and Ethiopic versions read, "we are content"; and the Syriac version, "food and raiment are sufficient for us"; and so the apostle sets himself, and others, as examples of contentment to be imitated and followed.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
And having food and raiment - Food and raiment, here, seem to be used to denote supplies for our needs in general. It is not uncommon to denote the whole by a part, and, as these are the principal things which we really need, and without which life could not be sustained, the apostle uses the phrase to denote all that is really necessary for us. We cannot suppose that he would forbid a desire of a comfortable habitation, or of the means of knowledge, or of conveniences for worshipping God, etc. The idea is, that having those flyings which meet the actual necessities of our nature, and save us from distress, we should not strive after “uncertain riches,” or make wealth the object of our anxious pursuit; compare notes on Philippians 4:11-12.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 8. Having food and raiment, let us be therewith content. — αρκεσθησομεθα. Let us consider this a competency. And it is evident that the apostle considers this a competency, and by these words explains what he said 1 Timothy 6:6.
The word ακεπασματα, which we translate raiment, signifies covering in general; and here means house or lodging, as well as clothing.
