1 Timothy 6:6-7

Of course, godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into the world, so we cannot carry anything out of it.

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5 songs meet this passage

  • “It ain't the money or the diamond rings, honey”

    (It’s Just) The Way That You Love Me (Radio Edit) · Paula Abdul

    resonates with 1 Timothy 6:6-7

    The song's rejection of wealth and status as the measure of worth lines up with this call to contentment apart from material gain.

  • Cheap Thrills · Sia

    resonates with 1 Timothy 6:6-8

    The song's rejection of needing cash for happiness brushes against the biblical idea of contentment, though here it's rooted in a night out rather than godliness.

  • Amarillo by Morning · George Strait

    resonates with 1 Timothy 6:6-8

    Contentment measured not by possessions but by what's enough is exactly Paul's point here; the cowboy's freedom in having little echoes this godliness with contentment.

  • 7 rings · Ariana Grande

    strains against 1 Timothy 6:6-10

    The song's entire posture, that acquiring more is the measure of a good life, runs opposite to contentment and the warning about the love of money.

  • “They say you can't take it with you when you go”

    Something Happened on the Way to Heaven (Live) [2016 Remastered] · Phil Collins

    resonates with 1 Timothy 6:7

    The recognition that possessions can't follow us beyond death echoes Paul's reminder that we brought nothing into the world and can carry nothing out.

Elsewhere in 1 Timothy 6