1 Timothy 6:9

World English Bible (2000)

But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Οἱ δὲ βουλόμενοι πλουτεῖν ἐμπίπτουσιν εἰς πειρασμὸν καὶ παγίδα, καὶ ἐπιθυμίας πολλὰς ἀνοήτους καὶ βλαβεράς, αἵτινες βυθίζουσιν τοὺς ἀνθρώπους εἰς ὄλεθρον καὶ ἀπώλειαν.

Transliteration

The ones de boulomenoi ploutein empiptousin into peirasmon kai pagida, and epithymias pollas anoētous kai blaberas, which bythizousin the anthrōpous into olethron kai apōleian.

Grammar Details

• *Hoi de*: article with conjunction, nominative, masculine, plural - but the ones
• *boulomenoi*: present participle, nominative, masculine, plural, middle - desiring/wanting
• *ploutein*: present infinitive, active - to be rich/wealthy
• *empiptousin*: present indicative, 3rd person plural, active - fall into
• *eis*: preposition - into
• *peirasmon*: accusative, masculine, singular - temptation/trial
• *kai*: conjunction - and
• *pagida*: accusative, feminine, singular - trap/snare
• *epithymias*: accusative, feminine, plural - desires/lusts
• *pollas*: accusative, feminine, plural - many
• *anoētous*: accusative, feminine, plural - foolish/senseless
• *blaberas*: accusative, feminine, plural - harmful/hurtful
• *haitines*: relative pronoun, nominative, feminine, plural - which
• *bythizousin*: present indicative, 3rd person plural, active - sink/plunge/drown
• *tous anthrōpous*: accusative, masculine, plural with article - the people/men
• *olethron*: accusative, masculine, singular - destruction/ruin
• *apōleian*: accusative, feminine, singular - perdition/destruction

Word Meanings

• *boulomenoi*: desiring/wanting/wishing/intending
• *ploutein*: to be rich/to gain wealth/to prosper
• *empiptousin*: fall into/plunge into/become entangled in
• *peirasmon*: temptation/trial/testing
• *pagida*: trap/snare/net
• *epithymias*: desires/lusts/cravings/longings
• *anoētous*: foolish/senseless/mindless
• *blaberas*: harmful/hurtful/destructive
• *bythizousin*: sink/plunge/drown/submerge
• *olethron*: destruction/ruin/perdition
• *apōleian*: perdition/destruction/ruin/loss

Referenced Verses

• Prov 15:27 : 27 He who is greedy for gain troubles his own house, but he who hates bribes will live.
• 1 Tim 3:7 : 7 Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.
• Matt 13:22 : 22 What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.
• Matt 19:22 : 22 But when the young man heard the saying, he went away sad, for he was one who had great possessions.
• Matt 26:15 : 15 and said, "What are you willing to give me, that I should deliver him to you?" They weighed out for him thirty pieces of silver.
• Matt 27:3-5 : 3 Then Judas, who betrayed him, when he saw that Jesus was condemned, felt remorse, and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, 4 saying, "I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood." But they said, "What is that to us? You see to it." 5 He threw down the pieces of silver in the sanctuary, and departed. He went away and hanged himself.
• Mark 4:19 : 19 and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.
• Luke 21:35 : 35 For it will come like a snare on all those who dwell on the surface of all the earth.
• Acts 5:4-5 : 4 While you kept it, didn't it remain your own? After it was sold, wasn't it in your power? How is it that you have conceived this thing in your heart? You haven't lied to men, but to God." 5 Ananias, hearing these words, fell down and died. Great fear came on all who heard these things.
• Acts 8:20 : 20 But Peter said to him, "May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money!
• Eph 4:22 : 22 that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit;
• 1 Tim 1:9 : 9 as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
• 2 Tim 2:26 : 26 and they may recover themselves out of the devil's snare, having been taken captive by him to his will.
• Jas 5:1-4 : 1 Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you. 2 Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you, and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days. 4 Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.
• 2 Pet 2:3 : 3 In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn't linger, and their destruction will not slumber.
• 2 Pet 2:15-16 : 15 forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing; 16 but he was rebuked for his own disobedience. A mute donkey spoke with a man's voice and stopped the madness of the prophet.
• 1 John 2:15-17 : 15 Don't love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love isn't in him. 16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn't the Father's, but is the world's. 17 The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God's will remains forever.
• Jude 1:11 : 11 Woe to them! For they went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in Korah's rebellion.
• Prov 20:21 : 21 An inheritance quickly gained at the beginning, won't be blessed in the end.
• Prov 21:6 : 6 Getting treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.
• Prov 22:16 : 16 Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.
• Prov 23:4 : 4 Don't weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.
• Prov 28:20-22 : 20 A faithful man is rich with blessings; but one who is eager to be rich will not go unpunished. 21 To show partiality is not good; yet a man will do wrong for a piece of bread. 22 A stingy man hurries after riches, and doesn't know that poverty waits for him.
• Isa 5:8 : 8 Woe to those who join house to house, who lay field to field, until there is no room, and you are made to dwell alone in the midst of the land!
• Hos 12:7-8 : 7 A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand. He loves to defraud. 8 Ephraim said, "Surely I have become rich, I have found myself wealth. In all my wealth they won't find in me any iniquity that is sin."
• Amos 8:4-6 : 4 Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail, 5 Saying, 'When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel large, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit; 6 that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the sweepings with the wheat?'"
• Gen 13:10-13 : 10 Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well-watered everywhere, before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar. 11 So Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself. Lot traveled east, and they separated themselves the one from the other. 12 Abram lived in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived in the cities of the plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom. 13 Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against Yahweh.
• Num 22:17-19 : 17 for I will promote you to very great honor, and whatever you say to me I will do. Please come therefore, and curse this people for me.'" 18 Balaam answered the servants of Balak, "If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can't go beyond the word of Yahweh my God, to do less or more. 19 Now therefore, please wait also here this night, that I may know what Yahweh will speak to me more."
• Num 31:8 : 8 They killed the kings of Midian with the rest of their slain: Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian: Balaam also the son of Beor they killed with the sword.
• Deut 7:25 : 25 You shall burn the engraved images of their gods with fire. You shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it for yourself, lest you be snared in it; for it is an abomination to Yahweh your God.
• Josh 7:11 : 11 Israel has sinned. Yes, they have even transgressed my covenant which I commanded them. Yes, they have even taken of the devoted things, and have also stolen, and also deceived. They have even put it among their own stuff.
• Josh 7:24-26 : 24 Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, the silver, the robe, the wedge of gold, his sons, his daughters, his cattle, his donkeys, his sheep, his tent, and all that he had; and they brought them up to the valley of Achor. 25 Joshua said, "Why have you troubled us? Yahweh will trouble you this day." All Israel stoned him with stones, and they burned them with fire and stoned them with stones. 26 They raised over him a great heap of stones that remains to this day. Yahweh turned from the fierceness of his anger. Therefore the name of that place was called "The valley of Achor" to this day.
• 2 Kgs 5:20-27 : 20 But Gehazi the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, "Behold, my master has spared this Naaman the Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought. As Yahweh lives, I will run after him, and take something from him." 21 So Gehazi followed after Naaman. When Naaman saw one running after him, he came down from the chariot to meet him, and said, "Is all well?" 22 He said, "All is well. My master has sent me, saying, 'Behold, even now two young men of the sons of the prophets have come to me from the hill country of Ephraim. Please give them a talent of silver and two changes of clothing.'" 23 Naaman said, "Be pleased to take two talents." He urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of clothing, and laid them on two of his servants; and they carried them before him. 24 When he came to the hill, he took them from their hand, and stored them in the house. Then he let the men go, and they departed. 25 But he went in, and stood before his master. Elisha said to him, "Where did you come from, Gehazi?" He said, "Your servant went nowhere." 26 He said to him, "Didn't my heart go with you, when the man turned from his chariot to meet you? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and olive groves and vineyards, and sheep and cattle, and male servants and female servants? 27 Therefore the leprosy of Naaman will cling to you and to your seed forever." He went out from his presence a leper, as white as snow.
• Ps 11:6 : 6 On the wicked he will rain blazing coals; fire, sulfur, and scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.
• Prov 1:17-19 : 17 For in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird: 18 but these lay wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives. 19 So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain. It takes away the life of its owners.
• Zech 11:5 : 5 Their buyers slaughter them, and go unpunished. Those who sell them say, 'Blessed be Yahweh, for I am rich;' and their own shepherds don't pity them.