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Life's Great Equalizer
Commentators unanimously affirm the simple, profound truth of this verse: we enter the world with nothing and leave with nothing. This reality, echoed in passages like Job 1:21 and Psalm 49:17, serves as a great equalizer. Regardless of wealth or status, our material journey has the same beginning and end, reminding us that our ultimate value is not in what we accumulate.
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1 Timothy
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Albert Barnes
On 1 Timothy 6:7
18th Century
Theologian
For we brought nothing into this world, and so on. A sentiment very similar to this occurs in Job 1:21; and it seems probable that the apo…
AT Robertson
On 1 Timothy 6:7
Brought into (εισηνεγκαμεν, second aorist active stem with first aorist ending, common in the Koine),
carry …
Charles Ellicott
On 1 Timothy 6:7
19th Century
Bishop
Rest with us.—Why “with us”? It shows sympathy in their present trials, for it implies that the writers themselves had earned or w…
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Expositor's Bible Commentary
On 1 Timothy 6:7
The reason we should be content is that “we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it.” That is, nothing in the entire worl…
John Calvin
On 1 Timothy 6:7
16th Century
Theologian
For we brought nothing into the world. He adds this for the purpose of setting a limit to the sufficiency.
Our covetousness is an i…
John Gill
On 1 Timothy 6:7
17th Century
Pastor
For we brought nothing into this world
Which is a reason both clearly showing that godliness is great gain, since th…
Matthew Henry
On 1 Timothy 6:6–10
17th Century
Minister
Those who use Christianity as a mere trade to serve their own purposes in this world will be disappointed; but those who attend to it as their call…