But those who want to be rich fall into temptation and a trap and many foolish and harmful desires, which plunge those people into ruin and destruction. 10 For the love of money is a root of all evil, by which some, because they[a] desire it, have gone astray from the faith and have pierced themselves with many pains.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Timothy 6:10 Here “because” is supplied as a component of the participle (“desire”) which is understood as causal