1 Timoteo 6:8

8 Así que, teniendo sustento y con qué cubrirnos, estemos contentos con esto

1 Timoteo 6:8 Meaning and Commentary

1 Timothy 6:8

And having food and raiment
"Food" includes all things necessary to be ate and drank, of which there is a great variety, and is here expressed in the plural number; and "raiment" every necessary covering, as the word used signifies, and includes an habitation, which is a cover and shelter from the inclementencies of the weather. And now having all these comforts and necessaries of life, food to eat, and drink to extinguish thirst and refresh, raiment to put on, and a house to dwell in,

let us be therewith content:
there is very good reason why the saints should be content; since more than these things cannot be enjoyed; and these they have with a blessing, and as a fruit and token of the love of God to them; these were all that Jacob desired, Agur petitioned for, and Christ directs his disciples daily to pray for; and which to have, is to have enough, a proper sufficiency and competency: the words may be rendered, "we shall be content with them"; which the apostle could say for himself, Timothy, and others, who had been content, even when they wanted these things. The Vulgate Latin and Ethiopic versions read, "we are content"; and the Syriac version, "food and raiment are sufficient for us"; and so the apostle sets himself, and others, as examples of contentment to be imitated and followed.

1 Timoteo 6:8 In-Context

6 Pero gran ganancia es la piedad con contentamiento

7 Porque nada hemos traído a este mundo, y sin duda nada podremos sacar

8 Así que, teniendo sustento y con qué cubrirnos, estemos contentos con esto

9 Porque los que quieren enriquecerse, caen en tentación y en lazo, y en muchas codicias locas y dañosas, que hunden a los hombres en destrucción y perdición

10 Porque el amor al dinero es la raíz de todos los males; el cual codiciando algunos, se descaminaron de la fe, y fueron traspasados de muchos dolores