1 Timothy 4
Treated in 62 passages across the library.
The verses these writers stop at
- 4:12 Do not let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set the believers an example in how you speak and live, in love, in faith and in purity. 10
- 4:16 Keep a close watch on yourself and on your teaching. Persevere in them, for if you do, you will save both yourself and your hearers. 10
- 4:7 Have nothing to do with godless and silly myths. Instead, train yourself in godliness. 7
- 4:8 Physical training has some value, but godliness is valuable in every way, since it holds promise both for life now and for the life to come. 7
- 4:1 The Spirit says clearly that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. 6
- 4:10 This is why we work hard and endure insults: we have put our hope in the living God, the Savior of all people, and especially of those who believe. 4
- 4:14 Do not neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you through a prophetic word when the elders laid their hands on you. 4
- 4:4 For everything God created is good, and nothing should be refused if it is received with thanks, 3
- 4:5 because it is made holy by God's word and by prayer. 3
- 4:6 If you teach these things to the brothers and sisters, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, feeding yourself on the words of the faith and of the good teaching you have followed. 2
- 4:13 Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to preaching and to teaching. 2
- 4:15 Put these things into practice and give yourself wholly to them, so that everyone may see your progress. 2
- 4:2 Such teaching comes through hypocritical liars whose consciences have been branded as with a hot iron. 1
- 4:3 They forbid people to marry and order them to keep away from certain foods, which God created to be received with thanks by those who believe and know the truth. 1
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Where it is preached
- Tell Me the Story – Book 8: To the Ends of the Earth ·
Don’t Let Anyone Look Down on You cites 1 Timothy 4:12
…set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.” — 1 Timothy 4:12 Do you remember Timothy? He was a young man from the town of Lystra, the town where Paul…
- Men Who Tended the Flock ·
Gregory the Great — The Servant of Servants cites 1 Timothy 4:16
…Persevere in them, because if you do, you will save both yourself and your hearers” (1 Timothy 4:16, NIV). Life and doctrine together: the pastoral office demanded excellence in both, and…
- Communion with God ·
Observations and inferences concerning the Spirit cites 1 Tim. iv. 1
…of light; and he will pretend the Spirit also and only. But there are “seducing spirits,” 1 Tim. iv. 1; and we have a “command not to believe every spirit, but try the spirits,” 1 John iv. 1…
- Men Who Tended the Flock ·
Scripture Appendix: God’s Word on the Pastoral Calling cites 1 Timothy 4:16
…Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.” 1 Timothy 4:16 — “Watch your life and doctrine closely. Persevere in them, because if you do, you will…
- Tukutendereza ·
Lawrence Barham — The Missionary His Students Converted cites 1 Timothy 4:12
…Not a platform — a curriculum. The text underneath it “Let no man despise thy youth” (1 Timothy 4:12). Paul says it to Timothy, but it lands on everyone older than Timothy, and it assumes…
- The Fundamental Doctrines of the Christian Faith ·
Is Future Punishment Everlasting? cites 1 Tim. 4:1
…is nothing for them, but against them, for worldliness is also spreading in the church (1 Tim. 4:1; 2 Tim. 3:1; 4:2, 3). Increasing laxity of life and increasing laxity of doctrine go arm…
- Portraits of Courage – Praying Hyde ·
The Sin That Had Not Been Taken Away cites 1 Timothy 4:16
…in these things; for in doing this thou shalt save both thyself and them that hear thee” (1 Timothy 4:16, ASV). Notice the order: first thyself, then thy teaching. Paul applied the same…
- Portraits of Courage – Praying Hyde ·
Preparing the Messenger cites 1 Timothy 4:16
…same double concern when he told Timothy, “Take heed to thyself, and to thy teaching” (1 Timothy 4:16, ASV). And the apostles in Jerusalem, when they were being pulled into administration…
- Portraits of Courage – Watchman Nee ·
The Normal Christian Life cites 1 Timothy 4:7
…and bring it into bondage” (1 Corinthians 9:27, ASV). “Exercise thyself unto godliness” (1 Timothy 4:7, ASV). Discipline becomes legalistic when used to earn acceptance or create spiritual…
- The Key Teachings of George MacDonald ·
The Self Denied cites 1 TIMOTHY 4:4
…creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving. 1 TIMOTHY 4:4 I am my own MacDonald went to the root of the matter in another sermon, Kingship, on the…
- The Bondage of the Will ·
Exordium cites 1 Tim. iv. 7
…and is, therefore to be left alone entirely, and classed among those “old wives’ fables” (1 Tim. iv. 7.) which Paul condemns in contentious Christians. But if it do belong unto Christians and…
- Portraits of Courage – Praying Hyde ·
Appendix A: Twenty-Five Lessons from Hyde’s Prayer Life cites 1 Timothy 4:16
…not go on preaching until it was dealt with. “Take heed to thyself, and to thy teaching” (1 Timothy 4:16, ASV). The promise is not freedom from temptation but freedom from sin’s rule: “For sin…
- The Fundamental Doctrines of the Christian Faith ·
The Christian Conception of God, or the God of the Bible as Distinguished from the God of Christian Science and the God of Modern Philosophy cites 1 Tim. 4:10
…heaven and in earth, who hath delivered Daniel from the power of the lions." Now turn to 1 Tim. 4:10: "For to this end we labour and strive, because we have our hope set on the living God…
- Portraits of Courage – Praying Hyde ·
Appendix B: Chapter-by-Chapter Study and Reflection Guide cites 1 Timothy 4:16
…Scriptures to revisit Hebrews 12:1-2; Romans 6:14; Romans 7:24-25; 1 John 1:8-9; 1 Timothy 4:16. Reflection 1. What sin “so easily besets” you? 2. Have you made a kind of peace with it?…
- Men Who Tended the Flock ·
Robert Murray M’Cheyne — The Holy Young Shepherd of Dundee cites 1 Timothy 4:12–16
…Persevere in them, because if you do, you will save both yourself and your hearers” (1 Timothy 4:12–16, NIV). Life and doctrine together, inseparably: the watching of the life first, and then…
- The Key Teachings of Derek Prince ·
Laying the Foundation cites 1 TIMOTHY 4:14
…which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery. 1 TIMOTHY 4:14 He saw it as a means by which God transmits blessing and authority through members of the…
- The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit ·
The Baptism with the Holy Spirit cites 1 Timothy 4:14
…obtain a new filling with the Holy Spirit. We must not “neglect” the gift that is in us (1 Timothy 4:14), “For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God” (2 Timothy 1 -6).…
- Institutes of the Christian Religion ·
Prefatory Address to King Francis cites 1 Tim. 4:10
…that “therefore we both labour and suffer reproach because we trust in the living God” (1 Tim. 4:10); because we believe it to be “life eternal” to know “the only true God, and Jesus…
- Institutes of the Christian Religion ·
Book 1, Chapter 9 — All the Principles of Piety Subverted by Fanatics, Who Substitute Revelations for Scripture cites 1 Tim. 4:13
…he exhorts Timothy, a teacher of singular excellence, to give attention to reading (1 Tim. 4:13). And the eulogium which he pronounces on Scripture well deserves to be remembered—viz.…
- The Life of Trust ·
Faith Confirmed by Prosperity cites 1 Tim. iv. 8
…unto all things, having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come,” (1 Tim. iv. 8,) I have in times almost without number found to be true in my own experience. Further…
- The Key Teachings of E. M. Bounds ·
The Word and the Promiser cites 1 TIMOTHY 4:5
…it makes holy what we already have. For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer. 1 TIMOTHY 4:5 Where this must be read with care Two cautions are worth making. First, Bounds sometimes…
- The Key Teachings of George Whitefield ·
The Danger of an Unconverted Ministry cites 1 TIMOTHY 4:16
…in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee. 1 TIMOTHY 4:16 The title of this chapter is not Whitefield’s. It belongs to a sermon preached in 1740 in…
- They Were Young – Book 1: Called ·
Introduction: Before You Were Grown cites 1 Timothy 4:12
…set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity” (1 Timothy 4:12). Notice what Paul did not say. He did not say, “Wait until you are older.” He said that…
- Portraits of Courage – C. T. Studd ·
Appendix B: Chapter-by-Chapter Study and Reflection Guide cites 1 Timothy 4:8
…manliness and despised weakness. Scriptures to revisit Psalm 16:5-8; Mark 10:21-22; 1 Timothy 4:8. Reflection 1. What advantages have you inherited, and from whose labour? 2. Which values…
- Growing in Wisdom ·
Introduction: God's Plan for You cites 1 Timothy 4:12
…an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, and in purity." — 1 Timothy 4:12 Let us begin this journey together with God, toward wisdom, strength, and success.
- Rooted – 30 Days with God for Youth – Book 6 ·
Day 6 — Don’t Let Anyone Look Down on You cites 1 Timothy 4:12
…set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.” — 1 Timothy 4:12 (BSB) Have you ever been told, “You’re too young”? Too young to understand. Too young to…
- Sons of the King – 30 Days with God for Guys – Book 2 ·
Day 20 — Train Yourself cites 1 Timothy 4:7–8
…valuable in every way, holding promise for the present life and for the one to come.” — 1 Timothy 4:7–8 (BSB) If you want to get better at a sport, what do you do? You train. You practice…
- Baptism with the Holy Spirit ·
Fresh Baptisms with the Holy Spirit, or the Refilling with the Holy Spirit cites 1 Timothy 4:14
…nothing of proof from experience and observation, that this gift must not be “neglected” (1 Timothy 4:14), but rather start anew” or “fan into flame” (2 Timothy 1:6); and that repeated fillings…
- Institutes of the Christian Religion ·
Book 2, Chapter 9 — Christ, Though Known to the Jews Under the Law, Yet Only Manifested Under the Gospel cites 1 Tim. 4:8
…unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come,” (1 Tim. 4:8); for which reason, he glories in being “an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the…
- Talks to the Farmer ·
The Principal Wheat cites 1 Timothy 4:15
…and be at peace” (Job 22:21). “Meditate on these things; give yourself wholly to them” (1 Timothy 4:15). If your mind is more clear and active at one time than at another, then sow the…
- The God of All Comfort ·
Thanksgiving Versus Complaining cites 1 Timothy 4:4
…by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving” (1 Timothy 4:4). But it is hard to believe things are good when they do not look so. Often, God’s gifts…
- The Inner Chamber ·
Meditation cites 1 Timothy 4: 15
…day and night” Psalms 1: 1-2. Joshua. 1: 8. Psalms 119: 15, 23, 48, 78, 97, 99 and 148. 1 Timothy 4: 15.) “Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight…
- Institutes of the Christian Religion ·
Book 3, Chapter 2 — Of Faith cites 1 Tim. 4:6
…exhibits a fuller manifestation of Christ, Paul justly terms it the doctrine of faith (1 Tim. 4:6). For which reason, also he elsewhere says, that, by the coming of faith, the Law was…
- The Key Teachings of Catherine Booth ·
The Power of Godliness cites 1 TIMOTHY 4:8
…unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come. 1 TIMOTHY 4:8 One of Catherine Booth’s books bears the title Godliness, and the word suits her. It is…
- The Key Teachings of Augustine of Hippo ·
The Absence of Good cites 1 TIMOTHY 4:4
…creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving. 1 TIMOTHY 4:4 This has two consequences that are easy to miss. First, it means that evil is always a…
- The Key Teachings of Hannah Whitall Smith ·
Consider the Lilies cites 1 TIMOTHY 4:7
…But refuse profane and old wives’ fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness. 1 TIMOTHY 4:7 But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use…
- The Key Teachings of Hudson Taylor ·
Mine Own Vineyard cites 1 TIMOTHY 4:16
…in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee. 1 TIMOTHY 4:16 Taylor adds a harder word. The sin of neglected communion may be forgiven, he says, and…
- The Key Teachings of Martin Luther ·
My Lord Katie cites 1 TIMOTHY 4:1–3
…to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving. 1 TIMOTHY 4:1–3 His Christmas sermon on the birth of Jesus shows how deeply he honoured ordinary human…
- The Key Teachings of Richard Baxter ·
The Reformed Pastor cites 1 TIMOTHY 4:12
…of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity. 1 TIMOTHY 4:12 Baxter singled out two places where failure is visible to everyone except the man…
- The Key Teachings of Watchman Nee ·
Spirit, Soul and Body cites 1 Timothy 4:2
…overruled becomes progressively silent — having their conscience seared with a hot iron (1 Timothy 4:2). A believer who has learned to argue with his conscience has disabled his most reliable…
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