1 Timothy 4:7
But reject the profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself to piety.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
But refuse profane and old wives’ fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.
In Context
Cross References
1 Timothy 1:4nor to heed myths and endless genealogies, which cause controversies rather than stewardship of God in faith.
1 Timothy 3:16And without controversy great is the mystery of piety. God was manifested in flesh, justified in spirit, seen by heavenly agents, proclaimed among nations, believed in the world, taken up in glory.
1 Timothy 6:20O Timothy, keep the entrustment, avoiding the profane babblings and objections of the falsely-called knowledge,
2 Timothy 2:23But shun foolish and uneducated questions, knowing that they breed quarrels.
2 Timothy 4:4and will indeed turn the ear away from the truth, and will be turned aside to myths.
Titus 2:12disciplining us, so that, having denied irreverence and worldly lusts, we should live soberly and righteously and piously in the present age.
Matthew Henry on 1 Timothy 4:7-16
Exhortation to Godliness; Exhortation to Ministerial Duties. ( a. d. 64.) 6 If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained. 7 But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness. 8 For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come. 9 This is… Read the whole commentary →