1 Timothy 6:10 (WEB)
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
Fathers and councils · 33
John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences I–X V.6Conference V
“…after His victory over gluttony, he did not venture to tempt Him to fornication, but passed on to covetousness, which he knew to be the root of all evils, and when again vanquished in this, he did not dare attack Him with any of those sins which follow, which, as he knew full well, spring from this as a root and…” — editor's note: 1 Tim. vi. 10.
Read the whole comment “For it becomes “a root of all evils,” and gives rise to a multiplicity of incitements to sin.” — editor's note: 1 Tim. vi. 10.
Read the whole comment“For it is a regular nest of sins, and a “root of all kinds of evil,” and becomes a hopeless incitement to wickedness, as the Apostle says, “Covetousness,” i.e. the love of money, “is a root of all kinds of evil.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. vi. 10.
Read the whole comment“For the love of money,” i.e. covetousness, “is a root of all kinds of evil, which some coveting have erred from the faith, and have entangled themselves in many sorrows.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. vi. 8–10.
Read the whole comment“…avarice (as he says of it “and covetousness, which is idolatry, or the worship of idols,” and again “the love of money,” says he, “is the root of all evils”) can never admit into the heart the true and unfeigned humility of Christ, while the man boasts himself of his high birth, or is puffed up by his position in…” — editor's note: Col. iii. 5; 1 Tim. vi. 10.
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Augustine of Hippo
“But the joy in the fruition is at once death itself, when one gains what he hath in abandoned wilfulness coveted: for “coveting is the root of all evil:” and therefore is the gate of death, for “the widow that liveth in pleasures is dead.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. vi. 10.
Read the whole comment“For since “covetousness is the root of all evils,” it must be cut off, that it may be consumed here; not be put off, that it may be satisfied there.” — editor's note: 1 Tim. vi. 10.
Read the whole comment“This then he prayeth, that he may profit in the will itself.…But the Apostle saith, “Avarice is a root of all evils.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. vi. 10.
Read the whole comment“For, “The root of all evils is avarice;” and again it is said, “The beginning of all sin is pride.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. vi. 10.
Read the whole comment“…more than the whole, into caring for a part; and thus by lusting after something more, is made less; whence also covetousness is called “the root of all evil.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. vi. 10
Read the whole comment“And hence the Apostle calls avarice “the root of all evils.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. vi. 10.
Read the whole comment“For avarice is the root of all evil, which some following after, have erred from the faith.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. vi. 8–10.
Read the whole comment““For as desire is the root of all evil,” so is charity the root of all good.” — editor's note: 1 Tim. vi. 10. Cupiditas, Vulgate.
Read the whole comment“Avarice is the wishing to be rich, not the being rich already.” — editor's note: 1 Tim. vi. 10.
Read the whole comment“For the love of money is the root of all evil; which, while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.”” — editor's note: l Tim. vi. 6–10.
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John Chrysostom
““For the love of money is the root of all evil.” ( 1 Tim. vi. 10.)” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“After this plucking up immediately the root of the evils, He saith,” — editor's note: 1 Tim vi. 10.
Read the whole comment““For the love of money is the root of all evils,”he saith.” — editor's note: 1 Tim. vi. 10. [R.V., “a root of all kinds of evil.”]
Read the whole comment“And again, “The love of money is the root of all evils; which while some coveted after they have erred from the faith;”and, “He that loveth me, will keep my commandment.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. vi. 10.
Read the whole comment“And like as the physician saith, that what is cold is hurtful to teeth, to nerves, to bones; so he too, more briefly indeed, as heedful of brevity, yet far more, clearly and more powerfully, saith, “For the love of money is the root of all evils.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. vi. 10.
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Jerome
““The love of money is the root of all evil,” and the apostle speaks of covetousness as being idolatry.” — editor's note: 1 Tim. vi. 10.
Read the whole comment“For on one side is the Charybdis of covetousness, “the root of all evil;” and on the other lurks the Scylla of detraction girt with the railing hounds of which the apostle says: “if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. vi. 10.
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Tertullian
“If we think over the rest of faults, tracing them from their generations, let us begin with covetousness, “a root of all evils,” wherewith, indeed, some having been ensnared, “have suffered shipwreck about faith.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. vi. 10.
Read the whole comment““Covetousness,” the Spirit of the Lord has through the apostle pronounced “a root of all evils.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. vi. 10. See de Idol. xi. ad init.
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Ambrose of Milan
“But if avarice be the root of all evils, he who does not seek for money has certainly stripped himself of vices.” — editor's note: 1 Tim. vi. 10.
Read the whole comment“For he knew that the root of all evils is the love of money, and therefore he was content with what he had, without seeking for what was another’s.” — editor's note: 1 Tim. vi. 10.
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Gregory of Nyssa
- Gregory of Nyssa, On the Making of Man On the.21On the Making of Man
“The beauty of the substance seems good to those who love money: yet “the love of money is a root of all evil”: and who would plunge into the unsavoury mud of wantonness, were it not that he whom this bait hurries into passion thinks pleasure a thing fair and…” — editor's note: 1 Tim. vi. 10.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“For covetousness is a root of all evils, which some desiring, have made shipwreck from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. vi. 7–10.
Read the whole comment“For the root of all evils is covetousness, which some coveting, have made shipwreck from the faith, and have plunged themselves in many sorrows.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. vi. 7–10.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“And these two matters do not divide the Substance, as I understand it, but rather are divisions within the Substance.” — editor's note: Job xxxviii. 4, Ps. v. 10, xxxvi., cxxxix. 7–15, cxlii., Isa. xi. 1–3, xlviii. 16, Mal. iii. 6, Wisd. i. 2, John i. 14, iii. 24, xv. 26, xvi. 14, 15, Acts…
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Leo the Great
“And what so hostile to mercy and works of charity as avarice from the root of which spring all evils?” — editor's note: Cf. 1 Tim. vi. 10; and below, 1 Cor. xiv. 1.
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Gregory the Great
“But the comeliness of the members is destroyed, because the beauty of other virtues is also hereby marred: and it exulcerates as it were the whole body, in that it corrupts the mind with vices of all kinds; as Paul attests, saying, The love of money is the root of all evils (1 Tim. vi. 10).” — the author cites it
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Clement of Alexandria
“But now love of money is found to be the stronghold of evil, which the apostle says “is the root of all evils, which, while some coveted, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. vi. 10.
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Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule I.12.
Cited together in On Idolatry Chapter 11.
Cited together in The City of God I.10.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule I.12.
Cited together in On the Making of Man On the.21 and 1 other place.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.17.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.17.
Cited together in On the Making of Man On the.21.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule I.12.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule I.12.
Cited together in The City of God I.10.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.17.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.62.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule I.12.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity XII.9.
Cited together in The Instructor II.3.
Cited together in The Instructor II.3.
Cited together in The Instructor II.3.
Cited together in The Instructor II.3.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.62.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.62.
Cited together in The Instructor II.3.
Cited together in Conferences I–X V.6.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.17.
Cited together in On Idolatry Chapter 11.
Cited together in On Patience Chapter 7.
Cited together in The City of God I.10.
Cited together in The City of God I.10.
Cited together in The City of God I.10.
Cited together in On the Making of Man On the.21.
Cited together in Conferences I–X V.6.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.62.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.17.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 74.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 74.
Cited together in The City of God I.10.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.17.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 74.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.17.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.17.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.17.
Cited together in On Idolatry Chapter 11 and 1 other place.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.17.