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George Lamsa Translation

1 Timothy 6:7

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Covetousness;   Death;   Minister, Christian;   Riches;   Scofield Reference Index - Separation;   Thompson Chain Reference - Certainties;   Earthly;   Poverty-Riches;   Riches, Earthly;   Seven;   Treasures, Earthly;   Uncertainties-Certainties;   The Topic Concordance - Contentment;   Destruction;   Man;   Wealth;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Death, Natural;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Pastor;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Godly, Godliness;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Timothy, the First Epistle to;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Church;   Contentment;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Jangling;   Timothy, Epistles to;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Timothy;   Timothy and Titus Epistles to;   World;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Nothing;   Pastoral Epistles, the;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for December 18;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out.
King James Version (1611)
For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certaine we can cary nothing out.
King James Version
For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.
English Standard Version
for we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world.
New American Standard Bible
For we have brought nothing into the world, so we cannot take anything out of it, either.
New Century Version
We brought nothing into the world, so we can take nothing out.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
For we have brought nothing into the world, so we cannot take anything out of it either.
Legacy Standard Bible
For we have brought nothing into the world, so we cannot take anything out of it either.
Berean Standard Bible
For we brought nothing into the world, and neither can we carry anything out of it.
Contemporary English Version
We didn't bring anything into this world, and we won't take anything with us when we leave.
Complete Jewish Bible
For we have brought nothing into the world; and we can take nothing out of it;
Darby Translation
For we have brought nothing into the world: [it is] [manifest] that neither can we carry anything out.
Easy-to-Read Version
When we came into the world, we brought nothing. And when we die, we can take nothing out.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For we brought nothing into the world, and it is certaine, that we can carie nothing out.
Good News Translation
What did we bring into the world? Nothing! What can we take out of the world? Nothing!
Lexham English Bible
For we have brought nothing into the world, so that neither can we bring anything out.
Literal Translation
For we have brought nothing into the world, and it is plain that neither can we carry anything out.
Amplified Bible
For we have brought nothing into the world, so [it is clear that] we cannot take anything out of it, either.
American Standard Version
for we brought nothing into the world, for neither can we carry anything out;
Bible in Basic English
For we came into the world with nothing, and we are not able to take anything out;
Hebrew Names Version
For we brought nothing into the world, and we certainly can't carry anything out.
International Standard Version
For we did not bring anything into the world, and surelysurely">[fn] we cannot take anything out of it.Job 1:1:21; Psalm 49:17; Proverbs 27:24; Ecclesiastes 5:15;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
For nothing brought we into the world, and we know that nothing we are able to take from it.
Murdock Translation
For we brought nothing into the world; and we know that we can carry nothing out of it.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For we brought nothyng into the worlde, and it is certayne that we may carry nought away.
English Revised Version
for we brought nothing into the world, for neither can we carry anything out;
World English Bible
For we brought nothing into the world, and we certainly can't carry anything out.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
For we brought nothing into the world: it is manifest that neither can we carry any thing out.
Weymouth's New Testament
for we brought nothing into the world, nor can we carry anything out of it;
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For we brouyten in no thing in to this world, and no doute, that we moun not bere `awey ony thing.
Update Bible Version
for we brought nothing into the world, for neither can we carry anything out;
Webster's Bible Translation
For we brought nothing into [this] world, [and it is] certain we can carry nothing out.
New English Translation
For we have brought nothing into this world and so we cannot take a single thing out either.
New King James Version
For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain [fn] we can carry nothing out.
New Living Translation
After all, we brought nothing with us when we came into the world, and we can't take anything with us when we leave it.
New Life Bible
We came into this world with nothing. For sure, when we die, we will take nothing with us.
New Revised Standard
for we brought nothing into the world, so that we can take nothing out of it;
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, nothing, brought we into the world, neither, to take anything out, are we able; -
Douay-Rheims Bible
For we brought nothing into this world: and certainly we can carry nothing out.
Revised Standard Version
for we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world;
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
For we brought nothynge into the worlde and it is a playne case that we can cary nothynge out.
Young's Literal Translation
for nothing did we bring into the world -- [it is] manifest that we are able to carry nothing out;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For we broughte nothinge in to the worlde, therfore is it a playne case yt we can cary nothinge out.
Mace New Testament (1729)
we brought nothing into the world, certain it is, we can carry nothing away. having therefore food and raiment,
Simplified Cowboy Version
We'll leave this world with the same amount of things we brought into the world.

Contextual Overview

6 But our gain is greater contentment, for it is the worship of God. 7 For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. 8 Therefore, let us be satisfied with food and clothing; 9 For those who desire to be rich, fall into temptations, and snares, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in degeneration and destruction. 10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: and there are some men who have coveted it and have thereby erred from the faith, they have brought to themselves many sorrows. 11 But you, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, piety, faith, love, patience, and meekness. 12 Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life to which you are called, having professed a true profession before many witnesses.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

we brought: Job 1:21, Proverbs 27:24, Ecclesiastes 5:15, Ecclesiastes 5:16

certain: Psalms 49:17, Luke 12:20, Luke 12:21, Luke 16:22, Luke 16:23

Reciprocal: Luke 12:15 - Take

Cross-References

Genesis 6:1
AND it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born to them,
Genesis 6:2
That the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair; so they took them wives of all whom they chose.
Genesis 6:3
Then the LORD said, My spirit shall not dwell in man forever, because he is flesh; let his days be a hundred and twenty years.
Genesis 6:4
There were giants on the earth in those days; and also after that, for the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bore children to them, and they became giants who in the olden days were mighty men of renown.
Genesis 6:20
Of fowls after their kind, and of animals after their kind, and of every creeping thing of the earth after its kind, two of every kind shall enter with you, that they may live.
Genesis 6:22
Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.
Psalms 37:20
For the wicked shall perish, and the rich who are enemies of the LORD shall be consumed; they shall vanish like smoke.
Proverbs 10:27
Reverence for the LORD prolongs life; but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.
Proverbs 16:4
All the works of the LORD are for those who will hearken to him; but the wicked are reserved for the day of calamity.
Hosea 4:3
Therefore the land shall mourn, and all its inhabitants shall languish, even the beasts of the field and the fowls of the air; and the fish of the sea also shall perish.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For we brought nothing into this world,.... Which is a reason both clearly showing that godliness is great gain, since those who have it brought nothing into the world with them but sin, and yet are now in such happy circumstances as before described; and that godly persons should be content with what they have, even of worldly things, seeing they are so much more than they had when they came into the world, into which they came naked; and which should be a quieting consideration under the most stripping providences; see Job 1:21

and it is certain we can carry nothing out: as men come into the world, so will they go out of it; nor will they need their worldly substance after death, any more than they did before they were born; and what they now have, and use not, will then be lost to them, whatever gain it may be to others: wherefore it becomes them cheerfully to use what they have, and be content therewith; see Ecclesiastes 5:15. The Jews have a saying like this o, that

"as a man comes (into the world), בחליטין, "simply" or "nakedly", so he goes out in like manner.''

o Bereshit Rabba, sect. 42. fol. 36. 3.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For we brought nothing into this world ... - A sentiment very similar to this occurs in Job 1:21 - and it would seem probable that the apostle had that passage in his eye; see the notes on that passage. Numerous expressions of this kind occur in the classic writers; see Wetstein, in loc., and Pricaeus, in loc. in the Critici Sacri. Of the truth of what is here said, there can be nothing more obvious. It is apparent to all. We bring no property with us into the world - no clothing, no jewels, no gold - and it is equally clear that we can take nothing with us when we leave the earth. Our coming into the world introduces no additional property to that which the race before possessed, and our going from the world removes none that we may have helped the race to accumulate. This is said by the apostle as an obvious reason why we should be contented if our actual needs are supplied - for this is really all that we need, and all that the world is toiling for.

We can carry nothing out - compare Psalms 49:17. “For when he - the rich man - dieth, he shall carry nothing away; his glory shall not descend after him.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 7. We brought nothing into this world — There are some sayings in Seneca which are almost verbatim with this of St. Paul: Nemo nascitur dives; quisquis exit in lucem jussus est lacte et panno esse contentus; Epist. xx, "No man is born rich; every one that comes into the world is commanded to be content with food and raiment." Excutit natura redeuntem, sicut intrantem; non licet plus auferre, quam intuleris; Epist., cap. ii. "Nature, in returning, shakes off all incumbrances as in entering; thou canst not carry back more than thou broughtest in." Seneca and St. Paul were contemporary; but all the Greek and Latin poets, and especially the stoic philosophers, are full of such sentiments. It is a self-evident truth; relative to it there can be no controversy.


 
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