6 ³ THIS IS WHAT you are to teach and preach. If anyone is teaching otherwise, and will not give his mind to wholesome precepts—I mean those of our Lord Jesus Christ—and to good religious teaching, 6 ⁴ I call him a pompous ignoramus. He is morbidly keen on mere verbal questions and quibbles, which give rise to jealousy, quarrelling, slander, base suspicions, 6 ⁵ and endless wrangles: all typical of men who have let their reasoning powers become atrophied and have lost grip of the truth. They think religion should yield dividends; 6 ⁶ and of course religion does yield high dividends, but only to the man whose resources are within him. 6 ⁷ We brought nothing into the world; for that matter we cannot take anything with us when we leave, 6 ⁸ but if we have food and covering we may rest content. 6 ⁹ Those who want to be rich fall into temptations and snares and many foolish harmful desires which plunge men into ruin and perdition. 6 ¹⁰ The love of money is the root of all evil things, and there are some who in reaching for it have wandered from the faith and spiked themselves on many thorny griefs.