1 Timothy 6:10

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For the love of money is a root of all evil: and some whose hearts were fixed on it have been turned away from the faith, and been wounded with unnumbered sorrows.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ῥίζα γὰρ πάντων τῶν κακῶν ἐστιν ἡ φιλαργυρία: ἧς τινες ὀρεγόμενοι, ἀπεπλανήθησαν ἀπὸ τῆς πίστεως, καὶ ἑαυτοὺς περιέπειραν ὀδύναις πολλαῖς.

Transliteration

Riza gar pantōn tōn kakōn estin the philargyria: of which some oregomenoi, apeplanēthēsan from the pisteōs, and heautous periepēiran odynais pollais.

Grammar Details

• *Riza*: nominative, feminine, singular - root
• *gar*: conjunction, explanatory - for
• *pantōn tōn kakōn*: genitive, neuter, plural with article - of all the evils
• *estin*: present indicative, 3rd person singular - is
• *hē philargyria*: nominative, feminine, singular with article - the love of money
• *hēs*: relative pronoun, genitive, feminine, singular - of which
• *tines*: indefinite pronoun, nominative, masculine, plural - some
• *oregomenoi*: present participle, nominative, masculine, plural, middle - reaching after/craving
• *apeplanēthēsan*: aorist indicative, 3rd person plural, passive - were led astray/wandered away
• *apo*: preposition - from
• *tēs pisteōs*: genitive, feminine, singular with article - the faith
• *kai*: conjunction - and
• *heautous*: reflexive pronoun, accusative, masculine, plural - themselves
• *periepēiran*: aorist indicative, 3rd person plural, active - pierced through/impaled
• *odynais*: dative, feminine, plural - with pains/sorrows
• *pollais*: dative, feminine, plural - many

Word Meanings

• *Riza*: root/source/origin
• *kakōn*: evils/bad things/troubles
• *philargyria*: love of money/greed/avarice
• *oregomenoi*: reaching after/craving/yearning for/coveting
• *apeplanēthēsan*: were led astray/wandered away/deceived
• *pisteōs*: faith/belief/trust/faithfulness
• *periepēiran*: pierced through/impaled/transfixed
• *odynais*: pains/sorrows/griefs/torments

Referenced Verses

• Mic 3:11 : 11 Its heads take rewards for judging, and the priests take payment for teaching, and the prophets get silver for reading the future: but still, supporting themselves on the Lord, they say, Is not the Lord among us? no evil will overtake us.
• Isa 56:11 : 11 Yes, the dogs are for ever looking for food; while these, the keepers of the sheep, are without wisdom: they have all gone after their pleasure, every one looking for profit; they are all the same.
• Jas 5:19 : 19 My brothers, if one of you has gone out of the way of the true faith and another has made him see his error,
• Deut 16:19 : 19 You are not to be moved in your judging by a man's position, you are not to take rewards; for rewards make the eyes of the wise man blind, and the decisions of the upright false.
• Ps 32:10 : 10 The sinner will be full of trouble; but mercy will be round the man who has faith in the Lord.
• Prov 1:19 : 19 Such is the fate of everyone who goes in search of profit; it takes away the life of its owners.
• Prov 1:31 : 31 So the fruit of their way will be their food, and with the designs of their hearts they will be made full.
• Isa 1:23 : 23 Your chiefs have gone against the Lord, they have become friends of thieves; every one of them is looking for profit and going after rewards; they do not give right decisions for the child who has no father, and they do not let the cause of the widow come before them.
• Gen 29:31-35 : 31 Now the Lord, seeing that Leah was not loved, gave her a child; while Rachel had no children. 32 And Leah was with child, and gave birth to a son to whom she gave the name Reuben: for she said, The Lord has seen my sorrow; now my husband will have love for me. 33 Then she became with child again, and gave birth to a son; and said, Because it has come to the Lord's ears that I am not loved, he has given me this son in addition: and she gave him the name Simeon. 34 And she was with child again, and gave birth to a son; and said, Now at last my husband will be united to me, because I have given him three sons: so he was named Levi. 35 And she was with child again, and gave birth to a son: and she said, This time I will give praise to the Lord: so he was named Judah; after this she had no more children for a time.
• Gen 34:23-24 : 23 Then will not their cattle and their goods and all their beasts be ours? so let us come to an agreement with them so that they may go on living with us. 24 Then all the men of the town gave ear to the words of Hamor and Shechem his son; and every male in the town underwent circumcision.
• Gen 38:16 : 16 And turning to her by the roadside, he said to her, Let me come in to you; for he had no idea that she was his daughter-in-law. And she said, What will you give me as my price?
• Exod 23:7-8 : 7 Keep yourselves far from any false business; never let the upright or him who has done no wrong be put to death: for I will make the evil-doer responsible for his sin. 8 Take no rewards in a cause: for rewards make blind those who have eyes to see, and make the decisions of the upright false.
• Deut 23:4-5 : 4 Because they gave you no bread or water on your way, when you came out of Egypt: and they got Balaam, the son of Peor, from Pethor in Aram-naharaim to put curses on you. 5 But the Lord your God would not give ear to Balaam, but let the curse be changed into a blessing to you, because of his love for you.
• Deut 23:18 : 18 Do not take into the house of the Lord your God, as an offering for an oath, the price of a loose woman or the money given to one used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods: for these two things are disgusting to the Lord your God.
• Judg 17:10-11 : 10 Then Micah said to him, Make your living-place with me, and be a father and a priest to me, and I will give you ten shekels of silver a year and your clothing and food. 11 And the Levite said he would make his living-place with the man, and he became to him as one of his sons.
• Judg 18:19-20 : 19 And they said to him, Be quiet; say nothing, and come with us and be our father and priest; is it better for you to be priest to one man's house or to be priest to a tribe and a family in Israel? 20 Then the priest's heart was glad, and he took the ephod and the family gods and the pictured image and went with the people.
• Judg 18:29-31 : 29 And they gave the town the name of Dan, after Dan their father, who was the son of Israel: though the town had been named Laish at first. 30 (And the children of Dan put up the pictured image for themselves; and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, and his sons were priests for the tribe of the Danites till the day when the ark was taken prisoner.) 31 And they put up for themselves the image which Micah had made, and it was there all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.
• 2 Sam 4:10-11 : 10 When one came to me with the news of Saul's death, in the belief that it would be good news, I took him and put him to death in Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his news: 11 How much more, when evil men have put an upright person to death, in his house, sleeping on his bed, will I take payment from you for his blood, and have you cut off from the earth?
• 2 Kgs 5:27 : 27 Because of what you have done, the disease of Naaman the leper will take you in its grip, and your seed after you, for ever. And he went out from before him a leper as white as snow.
• 2 Pet 2:7-8 : 7 And kept safe Lot, the upright man, who was deeply troubled by the unclean life of the evil-doers 8 (Because the soul of that upright man living among them was pained from day to day by seeing and hearing their crimes):
• Jude 1:11 : 11 A curse on them! They have gone in the way of Cain, running uncontrolled into the error of Balaam for reward, and have come to destruction by saying evil against the Lord, like Korah.
• Jer 5:27-28 : 27 As the fowl-house is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: for this reason they have become great and have got wealth. 28 They have become fat and strong: they have gone far in works of evil: they give no support to the cause of the child without a father, so that they may do well; they do not see that the poor man gets his rights.
• Ezek 13:19 : 19 And you have put me to shame among my people for a little barley and some bits of bread, sending death on souls for whom there is no cause of death, and keeping those souls living who have no right to life, by the false words you say to my people who give ear to what is false.
• Ezek 16:33 : 33 They give payment to all loose women: but you give rewards to your lovers, offering them payment so that they may come to you on every side for your cheap love.
• Ezek 22:12 : 12 In you they have taken rewards as the price of blood; you have taken interest and great profits, and you have taken away your neighbours' goods by force, and have not kept me in mind, says the Lord.
• Mic 7:3-4 : 3 Their hands are made ready to do evil; the ruler makes requests for money, and the judge is looking for a reward; and the great man gives decisions at his pleasure, and the right is twisted. 4 The best of them is like a waste plant, and their upright ones are like a wall of thorns. Sorrow! the day of their fate has come; now will trouble come on them.
• Mal 1:10 : 10 If only there was one among you who would see that the doors were shut, so that you might not put a light to the fire on my altar for nothing! I have no pleasure in you, says the Lord of armies, and I will not take an offering from your hands.
• Matt 23:13 : 13 But a curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! because you are shutting the kingdom of heaven against men: for you do not go in yourselves, and those who are going in, you keep back.
• Acts 1:16-19 : 16 My brothers, the word of God had to be put into effect, which the Holy Spirit had said before, by the mouth of David, about Judas, who was guide to those who took Jesus, 17 For he was numbered among us, and had his part in our work. 18 (Now this man, with the reward of his evil-doing, got for himself a field, and falling head first, came to a sudden and violent end there. 19 And this came to the knowledge of all those who were living in Jerusalem, so that the field was named in their language, Akel-dama, or, The field of blood.)
• 1 Tim 3:3 : 3 Not quickly moved to wrath or blows, but gentle; no fighter, no lover of money;
• 1 Tim 6:9 : 9 But those who have a desire for wealth are falling into danger, and are taken as in a net by a number of foolish and damaging desires, through which men are overtaken by death and destruction.
• 1 Tim 6:21 : 21 Through which some, who gave their minds to it, have been turned away from the faith. Grace be with you.
• 2 Tim 4:10 : 10 For Demas has gone away from me, for love of this present life, and has gone to Thessalonica: Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.
• Titus 1:11 : 11 By whom some families have been completely overturned; who take money for teaching things which are not right; these will have to be stopped.
• Rev 18:13 : 13 And sweet-smelling plants, and perfumes, and wine, and oil, and well crushed grain, and cattle and sheep; and horses and carriages and servants; and souls of men.
• Gen 29:14 : 14 And Laban said to him, Truly, you are my bone and my flesh. And he kept Jacob with him for the space of a month.
• Gen 29:26 : 26 And Laban said, In our country we do not let the younger daughter be married before the older.
• Rev 2:14-15 : 14 But I have some things against you, because you have with you those who keep the teaching of Balaam, by whose suggestion Balak made the children of Israel go out of the right way, taking food which was offered to false gods, and going after the desires of the flesh. 15 And you have those who keep the teaching of the Nicolaitans.