Money Is the Root of All Evil Meaning With Biblical Reference

Money is the Root of All Evil Meaning

Money is the root of all evil means all evilness was triggered by money or the main reason of all evilness was from the money. This phrase was origin from the bible on the chapter 6 verse ten in the epistle of Apostle Paul to Timothy. 

He made a counsel that time with timothy said "flee these things" he said this due to the money can corrupt the person and if the person loves the money more than to the co – human that money lovers shall violates or destroy the right of others to live for just them to have money.

Apostle Paul mentioned to Timothy on chapter 6 verse 8 that they should "content if they have foods and raiment."

Apostle Jude was turn into wicked due to money; He sold the Lord Jesus Christ and stool the money on pouch and pretends that should give to the poor but the Lord knows inside of his hearts (John 12:6) not just in the reasons that he has mercy but his plan to earn money from it.

Here are some possible reasons that the money is the root of all evil.

• Drug lords sold dangerous drugs to earn money from it without considers the life of others.

Not all drugs are have good effects but the dangerous drugs like marijuana, cocaine, crystal meth as shabu in other countries, heroin and more those have capacities to destroy the mind of the users. Drugs lords and other people who sells for their own benefits just want to earn through the destruction of others.

That wants was triggered by heart which loves the money. That loves was the reason why they sold the prohibited drugs to earn money and that evilness was from the money.

• A corrupt politician kills the other people to protect their names as the cause of corruption.

Sometimes and some politicians engaged with politics not to serve the community but to get more money through administration as part of government. The one best tactics was through the corruption and the consequence of corruption was the money and due to money those politicians became corrupt.

If someone knows their modus operandi, might the head may order to end the life of possible that may sabotage his/her name. Might end the life of the personnel that investigate them and that evilness was from the money those corrupts the politicians.

• Some became hired killer and earn from it.

Hired to kill are the common livelihood of others to commit murder, homicide and the likes. Some are used to kill someone to sustain their daily needs or just a sideline to earn more money from it.

• Some business man/ woman lies about their products.

To earn money from their products sometimes they deceived the customers even their products were not they talk to their customers, in short their sells talk in the customers are differ to the real products. They lied to their customers; their manners of lies were exaggerated to impress the customers to earn money and the customers to buy their products.

Let us back to the bible why the money was the root of all evil. Christ taught His disciples to focus on spiritual side than to focus on earthly things and He mentioned on the book of Luke chapter 12 verse 15 that our life was not the abundance that we posses but our life is to follow the commandments of God on the chapter 12 verse 13 of Ecclesiastes that our life is to obey. That’s our life is to follow him not the abundance in our life.

All things is for man; for example the spider, all people do not eat the spider but if the spiders ate by birds and the birds ate by people; the spider was end from the right ending – to the people.

The cockroach for example; no people again eats cockroach but if the cockroach ate by chicken, the end of the cockroach was in the chicken and the chicken if ate by man; the cockroach was end to the man – the final destination of cockroach was the man and back to the Ecclesiastes chapter 12 verse 15, according to that verse the obeying the word of God is our duty to obey so.

The main reason why we created by God is to do good works though Jesus Christ (Ephesians 2:10) and the good that we must do is the word of God based on the chapter 7 verse 12 on the book of the Romans that the commandments of God is good and that good as the commandment of God that we must do as our duty to obey so.

The possible reasons that there are people who tuned into evilness due to money and caused by the disobedience in God, to become rich is not bad if from sacrifice, work hard from the honest livelihood and due to love in the money, they did something not right for them to became rich.

Actually the riches people are very difficult to enter in the Kingdom of God according to the Lord Jesus Christ on the chapter 18 verse 25 on the book of Luke, base on the chapter ten verse twenty five on the book of Mark and on the Mathew 19:24.