The golden rule, and your enemies
The golden rule, and your enemies · Two masters, and the root of evil
What it covers
Four roots on the golden rule, your enemies and money. Every ancient version of the golden rule was negative — Jesus inverts it, and a positive rule has no ceiling. "Hate thine enemy" is not in the Old Testament. Mammon is not a word for currency: its root idea is confidence, the thing you rely on. And in 1 Timothy 6:10 there is no definite article.
Four roots
Do to others what you would have them do to you
Matthew 7:12 · Sermon on the Mount
“Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.”
Matthew 7:12 (KJV)
“Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:”
Matthew 7:7 (KJV)
“Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?”
Matthew 7:9-10 (KJV)
“If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?”
Matthew 7:11 (KJV)
- θέλω THEH-lo To determine, from subjective impulse Greek
- ποιέω poy-EH-oh The same verb, both directions Greek
- οὖν oon Therefore Greek
Love your enemies and pray for your persecutors
Matthew 5:44 · Sermon on the Mount
“But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;”
Matthew 5:44 (KJV)
“Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.”
Matthew 5:43 (KJV)
“That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.”
Matthew 5:45 (KJV)
- ἐχθρός ekh-THROS Actively hostile Greek
Refuse to make money your master
Matthew 6:24 · Sermon on the Mount
“No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.”
Matthew 6:24 (KJV)
“Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.”
Matthew 6:19-21 (KJV)
“The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!”
Matthew 6:22-23 (KJV)
- δουλεύω doo-LEV-oh To be a slave to Greek
- μαμωνᾷ ma-mo-NA Of Chaldee origin: confidence, that is, wealth personified. Avarice, deified. Greek
Treat the love of money as a root of evil
1 Timothy 6:10 · Paul to Timothy
“For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.”
1 Timothy 6:10 (KJV)
“But godliness with contentment is great gain.”
1 Timothy 6:6 (KJV)
“For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.”
1 Timothy 6:7 (KJV)
“And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.”
1 Timothy 6:8 (KJV)
“But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.”
1 Timothy 6:9 (KJV)
“But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.”
1 Timothy 6:11 (KJV)
- φιλαργυρία fil-ar-goo-REE-ah Φίλος (loving) + ἄργυρος (silver) Greek
- ῥίζα REE-dzah A root — and in the Greek with no definite article Greek
- ὀρέγομαι o-REG-o-mai To stretch oneself out after Greek
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These four roots are 10, 11, 12, 13 of a hundred. The rest are in the book, one chapter each.
100 Roots in Scripture — the word underneath, the paragraph around it, and the complication worth keeping.
