I’ve heard that, about “all kinds of evil” being the better translation. I wonder if it could still be translated as “all evils,” though. Maybe not, but I’m thinking about how Jesus said you can’t serve God and mammon. Money seems to represent our human self will and rebellion and unbelief, especially since it can seem like a very or even most powerful god. Could the love of it truly be the root of all evils, though? I wonder.
Well, for example, if we review the 10 commandments we see that there are a number of sins that do not involve the love of money. I think that all of them do involve pride however.
Money exists as a medium of exchange, and to represent that you are trading money, which represents your labor for something, say food, produced by someone elses labor or skill. To use it in this way is an appropriate use. When you covet and begin to order your entire life toward obtaining money, which in turn allows you to command others and ignore God then it becomes a sin.