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Often appears with: treasure in heaven · providence and divine governance · poverty and wealth · pleasure, pain, and the good life · misuse versus proper use of property · godliness as true gain · contentment versus covetousness
Usually: argument (1) · injustice endured (1) · resignation (1)
He answers whether faithful believers suffer real loss by insisting God’s people do not lose true wealth—faith, godliness, and inner treasure—though they may lose worldly goods during events like the sack of Rome.
perdition. 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."[50] They, then, who lost their worldly all in the sack of Rome, if they owned their possessions as they had been taught by the apostle, who himself was poor without, but rich within,--that is to say, if they used the world as not using it,--coul…