Origin

Often misquoted as 'money is the root of all evil'. Originates in the Bible, Timothy 6:10 (King James Version): 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. -- Many Christians and Christian leaders have been neutralized by the love of money and materialism. The homage paid to affluence becomes a burden that saps our energy as well as our love for God and other people. Though repentance and the cleansing of forgiveness, we can rid ourselves of this burden and begin to let God transform our value system. Like Jesus and Paul, we can learn to be content with what we have, living modestly in order that we may give liberally to the work of the kingdom and to meet the needs of others. -- A dreadful thing is the love of money! It disables both eyes and ears, and makes men worse to deal with than a wild beast, allowing a man to consider neither conscience nor friendship nor fellowship nor salvation. -- Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, 'I will never leave you nor forsake you.' -- It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake. -- The love of money as a possession - as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life - will be recognized for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity, one of those semi-criminal, semi-pathological propens -- Cursed be he above all others Who's enslaved by love of money. Money takes the place of brothers, Money takes the place of parents, Money brings us war and slaughter. -- From all the above its obvious then that money is a "neccessary evil", or is that a contracdiction in itself how can something neccessary be evil or how do you need an item or object and not love/like it; its concepts like these that confuse the world and create more confussion, what is money, what is love, what is evil, how do we love and why must we use money, if what you need should not be loved, then we are in for inconsistency in life which will definately breed more confussion and the end result is left to the imagination.