The other day I heard of a man who made six million dollars. A financial counselor told him to sell his stock in a company because all this money was tied to the one company's stock. This man lost everything. Money has a way of disappearing. Covetousness, or the love of money, is the root of all evil.
Covetousness can bring a person to the condition called apostasy.
Covetousness can bring about one's destruction. He says such a man is like a wild animal that leaps at bait hung over a pit. The animal falls in, impales itself on a sharp stake below, and is totally destroyed. In light of these reasons, I hope that we will pay heed to this biblical counsel to avoid covetousness. In our earlier study we said that the Greek word for contentment is autarkeia.