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# 1 Timothy 6

1 Timothy 6 is chapter 6 of 6 in the First Letter to Timothy. Here are all 21 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Duties of servants. The danger of covetousness. Lessons for the rich.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## 1 Timothy 6 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Whoever are servants under the yoke, let them consider their masters to be worthy of every honor, lest the name and doctrine of the Lord be blasphemed.
2. But those who have believing masters, let them not despise them because they are brothers, but rather serve them all the more because they are believing and beloved, participants of the same service. Teach and exhort these things.
3. If anyone teaches otherwise, and does not consent to the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to that doctrine which is in accord with piety,
4. then he is arrogant, knowing nothing, yet languishing amid the questions and quarrels of words. From these arise envy, contention, blasphemy, evil suspicions:
5. the conflicts of men who have been corrupted in mind and deprived of truth, who consider profit to be piety.
6. But piety with sufficiency is great gain.
7. For we brought nothing into this world, and there is no doubt that we can take nothing away.
8. But, having nourishment and some kind of covering, we should be content with these.
9. For those who want to become rich fall into temptation and into the snare of the devil and into many useless and harmful desires, which submerge men in destruction and in perdition.
10. For desire is the root of all evils. Some persons, hungering in this way, have strayed from the faith and have entangled themselves in many sorrows.
11. But you, O man of God, flee from these things, and truly pursue justice, piety, faith, charity, patience, meekness.
12. Fight the good fight of faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you have been called, and make a good profession of faith in the sight of many witnesses.
13. I charge you, in the sight of God, who enlivens all things, and in the sight of Christ Jesus, who gave the testimony of a good profession under Pontius Pilate,
14. to observe the commandment, immaculately, irreproachably, unto the return of our Lord Jesus Christ.
15. For at the proper time, he shall reveal the blessed and only Power, the King of kings and the Lord of lords,
16. who alone holds immortality, and who inhabits the inaccessible light, whom no man has seen, nor even is able to see, to whom is honor and everlasting dominion. Amen.
17. Instruct the wealthy of this age not to have a superior attitude, nor to hope in the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, who offers us everything in abundance to enjoy,
18. and to do good, to become rich in good works, to donate readily, to share,
19. to gather for themselves the treasure of a good foundation for the future, so that they may obtain true life.
20. O Timothy, guard what has been deposited with you, avoiding the voice of profane novelties and of opposing ideas, which are falsely called knowledge.
21. Certain persons, promising these things, have perished from the faith. May grace be with you. Amen.

## 1 Timothy 6 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Quicumque sunt sub jugo servi, dominos suos omni honore dignos arbitrentur, ne nomen Domini et doctrina blasphemetur.
2. Qui autem fideles habent dominos, non contemnant, quia fratres sunt: sed magis serviant, quia fideles sunt et dilecti, qui beneficii participes sunt. Hæc doce, et exhortare.
3. Si quis aliter docet, et non acquiescit sanis sermonibus Domini nostri Jesu Christi, et ei, quæ secundum pietatem est, doctrinæ:
4. superbus est, nihil sciens, sed languens circa quæstiones, et pugnas verborum: ex quibus oriuntur invidiæ, contentiones, blasphemiæ, suspiciones malæ,
5. conflictationes hominum mente corruptorum, et qui veritate privati sunt, existimantium quæstum esse pietatem.
6. Est autem quæstus magnus pietas cum sufficientia.
7. Nihil enim intulimus in hunc mundum: haud dubium quod nec auferre quid possumus.
8. Habentes autem alimenta, et quibus tegamur, his contenti simus.
9. Nam qui volunt divites fieri, incidunt in tentationem, et in laqueum diaboli, et desideria multa inutilia, et nociva, quæ mergunt homines in interitum et perditionem.
10. Radix enim omnium malorum est cupiditas: quam quidam appetentes erraverunt a fide, et inseruerunt se doloribus multis.
11. Tu autem, o homo Dei, hæc fuge: sectare vero justitiam, pietatem, fidem, caritatem, patientiam, mansuetudinem.
12. Certa bonum certamen fidei, apprehende vitam æternam, in qua vocatus es, et confessus bonam confessionem coram multis testibus.
13. Præcipio tibi coram Deo, qui vivificat omnia, et Christo Jesu, qui testimonium reddidit sub Pontio Pilato, bonam confessionem,
14. ut serves mandatum sine macula, irreprehensibile usque in adventum Domini nostri Jesu Christi,
15. quem suis temporibus ostendet beatus et solus potens, Rex regum, et Dominus dominantium:
16. qui solus habet immortalitatem, et lucem inhabitat inaccessibilem: quem nullus hominum vidit, sed nec videre potest: cui honor, et imperium sempiternum. Amen.
17. Divitibus hujus sæculi præcipe non sublime sapere, neque sperare in incerto divitiarum, sed in Deo vivo (qui præstat nobis omnia abunde ad fruendum)
18. bene agere, divites fieri in bonis operibus, facile tribuere, communicare,
19. thesaurizare sibi fundamentum bonum in futurum, ut apprehendant veram vitam.
20. O Timothee, depositum custodi, devitans profanas vocum novitates, et oppositiones falsi nominis scientiæ,
21. quam quidam promittentes, circa fidem exciderunt. Gratia tecum. Amen.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- cf. CCC ¶ 2837: "Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2145: The Name of the Lord is Holy ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 66: Christ Jesus -- "Mediator and Fullness of All Revelation" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2641: Prayer of Praise ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 52: God Reveals His "Plan of Loving Goodness" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## The saints

- “The love of money is the beginning of all troubles. Knowing therefore that we brought nothing into the world and can carry nothing out, let us arm ourselves with the armor of righteousness.” — St. Polycarp, Letter to the Philippians, 4, c. 110 (On this theme: verse 7)
- “Live simply, so that all may simply live.” — St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, popular saying, source unconfirmed (Attributed: verse 8)

## Read at Mass (US)

- Fri, Sep 17, 2027 (computed): Friday of the Twenty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time — First Reading, 1 Timothy 6:2c-12
- Sat, Sep 18, 2027 (computed): Saturday of the Twenty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time — First Reading, 1 Timothy 6:13-16
- Sun, Oct 1, 2028 (computed): Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time — Second Reading, 1 Timothy 6:11-16

Dates after May 31, 2027 are computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).