1 Timothy 6:7

Webster's Bible (1833)

For we brought nothing into the world, and we certainly can't carry anything out.

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  • Job 1:21 : 21 He said, "Naked I came out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be the name of Yahweh."
  • Ps 49:17 : 17 For when he dies he shall carry nothing away. His glory shall not descend after him.
  • Eccl 5:15-16 : 15 As he came forth from his mother's womb, naked shall he go again as he came, and shall take nothing for his labor, which he may carry away in his hand. 16 This also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go. And what profit does he have who labors for the wind?
  • Luke 12:20-21 : 20 "But God said to him, 'You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared--whose will they be?' 21 So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God."
  • Prov 27:24 : 24 For riches are not forever, Nor does even the crown endure to all generations.

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  • 1 Tim 6:8-9
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    8But having food and clothing, we will be content with that.

    9But 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.

  • Eccl 5:14-16
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    14Those riches perish by misfortune, and if he has fathered a son, there is nothing in his hand.

    15As he came forth from his mother's womb, naked shall he go again as he came, and shall take nothing for his labor, which he may carry away in his hand.

    16This also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go. And what profit does he have who labors for the wind?

  • 6But godliness with contentment is great gain.

  • 17For when he dies he shall carry nothing away. His glory shall not descend after him.

  • 6"Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn't know who shall gather.

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    30and those who weep, as though they didn't weep; and those who rejoice, as though they didn't rejoice; and those who buy, as though they didn't possess;

    31and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away.

  • Rom 14:7-8
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    7For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself.

    8For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord's.

  • 17Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be haughty, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;

  • 2 Cor 5:1-4
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    1For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

    2For most assuredly in this we groan, longing to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven;

    3if so be that being clothed we will not be found naked.

    4For indeed we who are in this tent do groan, being burdened; not that we desire to be unclothed, but that we desire to be clothed, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

  • 9(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days on earth are a shadow.)

  • 31"Therefore don't be anxious, saying, 'What will we eat?', 'What will we drink?' or, 'With what will we be clothed?'

  • Matt 6:19-20
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    19"Don't lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;

    20but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, and where thieves don't break through and steal;

  • Eccl 6:7-8
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    7All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

    8For what advantage has the wise more than the fool? What has the poor man, that knows how to walk before the living?

  • 10as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

  • 5Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, "I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you."

  • Jas 4:13-14
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    13Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow let's go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit."

    14Whereas you don't know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

  • Eccl 6:11-12
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    11For there are many words that create vanity. What does that profit man?

    12For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?

  • 7And the dust returns to the earth as it was, And the spirit returns to God who gave it.

  • Eccl 8:7-8
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    7For he doesn't know that which will be; for who can tell him how it will be?

    8There is no man who has power over the spirit to contain the spirit; neither does he have power over the day of death. There is no discharge in war; neither shall wickedness deliver those who practice it.

  • 7But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.

  • 15For we are strangers before you, and foreigners, as all our fathers were: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.

  • 27Look this, we have searched it, so it is; Hear it, and know it for your good."

  • 21So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God."

  • 15He said to them, "Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man's life doesn't consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses."

  • 20All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.

  • 13We'll find all valuable wealth. We'll fill our houses with spoil.

  • 21He said, "Naked I came out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be the name of Yahweh."

  • 33Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don't grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn't fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys.

  • 25Therefore, I tell you, don't be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn't life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

  • 7There are some who pretend to be rich, yet have nothing. There are some who pretend to be poor, yet have great wealth.

  • 6Being therefore always of good courage, and knowing that, while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord;

  • 9Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,

  • 23Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing.

  • 22Therefore I saw that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his works; for that is his portion: for who can bring him to see what will be after him?

  • 15As it is written, "He who gathered much had nothing left over, and he who gathered little had no lack."

  • 5For each man will bear his own burden.

  • 34Therefore don't be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day's own evil is sufficient.