1 Timothy 6:7 meaning and explanation

For we brought nothing into the world, so we cannot carry anything out of it.

1 Timothy 6:7, Berean Standard Bible

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Paul writes to Timothy, a young pastor in Ephesus, about teachers who treated godliness as a way to make money (verse 5). Verse 7 gives the reason contentment is possible: we entered the world with nothing, and we leave it the same way.

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