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From NIV anyway: "For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil." Timothy 6:10. Pet peeve when that word is dropped. Money isn't necessarily behind eve
by mml 9y ago
From NIV anyway: "For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil."
Timothy 6:10. Pet peeve when that word is dropped. Money isn't necessarily behind everything.
- austinjp 9y agoPlenty of different ways to read it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radix_malorum_est_cupiditas https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radix_malorum_est_cupiditas
- PantaloonFlames 9y agoBut that's the problem in reading an English translation of a 2000-yr old text. Too many handlers have intervened, one must assume the purity of the original has been compromised.
- nitrogen 9y ago...one must assume the purity of the original has been compromised. One must also assume the original had any purity to be compromised.
- zafka 9y agoAs has been said a few different ways: it's all in the translations.....I was indoctrinated with the King James Version, you know, the one that is 100 % accurate, up to knowing which books to leave out after the council of Nicaea... So in that light, the quote is correct :)