“Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.”
and constant friction among people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth. Such people think that godliness is a means of gain — the portrait darkens: the false teachers' minds are diephtharmene (corrupted) and bereft of alētheia (truth). Most damningly, they view eusebia (godliness) as podne (a means of financial gain), reducing faith to commerce.
Church Fathers on 1 Timothy 6:5
A teacher has need not only of authority, but of gentleness, and not only of gentleness, but of authority. And all these the blessed Paul teaches, at one time saying, “These things command and teach” 1 Timothy 4:11; at another, “These things teach and exhort.” For if physicians entreat the sick, not for the benefit of their own health, but that they may relieve their sickness, and restore their prostrate strength, much more ought we to observe this method, of entreating those…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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