1 Timothy 6:3-10

A further warning against false Teachers. Their covetousness

From the 3rd verse to the 16th St Paul once again resumes two of the chief topics of the Epistle false teachers" perverted doctrine, and Timothy's own true unswerving life; in each case with a new thought, (1) of the debasing motive of traffic in godliness, (2) of the inspiring motive of the Master's appearing. He then, 1 Timothy 6:17, gives one further direction (suggested perhaps by 1 Timothy 6:10) of pastoral faithfulness towards the rich; and in a last abrupt and touchingly natural outburst throws himself upon his son Timothy, and gathers up all his fears and hopes on the one chiefest subject in the brief appeal of 1 Timothy 6:20, from which he can no longer keep back the misused name of the monster evil -knowledge falsely named, Gnosisthe Misnomer," 1 Timothy 6:3, unsound teaching, especially for gain.