1 Timothy 6:1-4

Instructions for the Church

¹ _o Let all who are under a yoke as slaves ₁ regard their own masters as worthy of all honor, _p so that the name of God and the teaching may not be reviled.

False Teachers and True Contentment

² Those who have believing masters must not be disrespectful on the ground that they are _q brothers; rather they must serve all the better since those who benefit by their good service are believers and beloved. _r Teach and urge these things. ³ If anyone _s teaches a different doctrine and does not agree with _t the sound ₂ words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching _u that accords with godliness, ⁴ _v he is puffed up with conceit and _w understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for _x controversy and for _y quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions,

1. Cross References
   1 Peter 2:18
   Servants, be subject to your masters with all respect, not only to the good and gentle but also to the unjust.
   
2. Cross References
   Isaiah 52:5
   Now therefore what have I here," declares the Lord, "seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Their rulers wail," declares the Lord, "and continually all the day my name is despised.
   Romans 2:24
   For, as it is written, "The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.
   Titus 2:5
   To be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.
   
3. Cross References
   Philemon 1:16
   No longer as a slave but more than a slave, as a beloved brother - especially to me, but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.
   
4. Cross References
   1 Timothy 4:11
   Command and teach these things.
   1 Timothy 4:13
   Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to exhortation, to teaching.
   1 Timothy 5:7
   Command these things as well, so that they may be without reproach.
   
5. Cross References
   1 Timothy 1:3
   As I urged you when I was going to Macedonia, remain at Ephesus so that you may charge certain persons not to teach any different doctrine.
   
6. Cross References
   1 Timothy 1:10
   The sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine.
   
7. Cross References
   Titus 1:1
   Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the sake of the faith of God's elect and their knowledge of the truth, which accords with godliness.
   
8. Cross References
   1 Timothy 3:6
   He must not be a recent convert, or he may become puffed up with conceit and fall into the condemnation of the devil.
   2 Timothy 3:4
   Treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God.
   
9. Cross References
   1 Corinthians 8:2
   If anyone imagines that he knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know.
   1 Timothy 1:7
   Desiring to be teachers of the law, without understanding either what they are saying or the things about which they make confident assertions.
   
10. Cross References
    1 Timothy 1:4
    Nor to devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies, which promote speculations rather than the stewardship from God that is by faith.
    2 Timothy 2:23
    Have nothing to do with foolish, ignorant controversies; you know that they breed quarrels.
    Titus 3:9
    But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, dissensions, and quarrels about the law, for they are unprofitable and worthless.
    
11. Cross References
    2 Timothy 2:14
    Remind them of these things, and charge them before God not to quarrel about words, which does no good, but only ruins the hearers.
    Acts 18:15
    But since it is a matter of questions about words and names and your own law, see to it yourselves. I refuse to be a judge of these things.