1 Timothy 6:5 Health and Wealth Gospel

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What’s in Your Bible: 1 Timothy 6:5

KJB Reformation texts “Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: FROM SUCH WITHDRAW THYSELF.”

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The Bible warns against following people who preach the Health and Wealth Gospel. It says to withdraw yourself from them. The warning isn't in the new translations.

Found in the Majority of all remaining manuscripts, including D correction, K, L, P, Psi,

Old Latin ar, b, m, mon, o

Syriac Peshitta, Harclean, Armenian, Gothic, Georgian and Slavonic ancient versions

Church Fathers and writers:

Irenaeus

Cyprian

Ambrosiaster

Ephraem

Basil

Chrysostom

Theodoret

John-Damascus

Omitted in Sinaiticus (there is no Vaticanus book of 1st or 2nd Timothy), And a few others.

Bibles that agree with the KJB and include all these words are

Tyndale Bible

Coverdale Bible

Matthew’s Bible

The Great Bible

Geneva Bible

Bishops Bible

Foreign Language Bibles

Spanish Las Sagradas Escrituras

Cipriano de Valera 1602

the Reina Valera

French Martin bible

French Ostervald

French Louis Second

Luther’s German bible

German Schlachter bible

Italian Diodati

La Nuova Diodati

Italian Nuova Riveduta

Polish Gdansk

Portuguese A Biblia Sagrada

Almeida Corrigida

Romanian Fidela Bible

Tagalog And Salita ng Diyos

The Modern Greek Bible

The Bible has many warnings against attempting to become rich.

Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.

Dr. Steven A. Hite

Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. — 2 Timothy 2:15