1 Timothy 1:4
nor give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which produce disputes rather than godly edification, which is in faith;
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
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2 Corinthians 7:9Now I rejoice not that you were made sorry, but that you sorrowed in order to repentance. For you sorrowed in a way acceptable to God, that you might in nothing receive injury from us.
1 Timothy 3:16And confessedly great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in flesh, justified in spirit, seen by angels, preached among the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up in glory.
1 Timothy 6:3If any one teaches other things, and does not assent to the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the teaching which is according to godliness,
1 Timothy 6:20O Timothy, keep that which is committed to your charge, avoiding those profane and empty babblings, and disputations about knowledge falsely so called;
2 Timothy 2:16But shun profane and vain babblings; for they will make further advance to ungodliness,
2 Timothy 4:4and they will turn away their ears from the truth, and be turned to fables.
Matthew Henry on 1 Timothy 1:2-5
First Timothy Hitherto Paul's epistles were directed to churches; now follow some to particular persons: two to Timothy, one to Titus, and another to Philemon—all three ministers. Timothy and Titus were evangelists, an inferior order to the apostles, as appears by Eph. iv. 11 , Some prophets, some apostles, some evangelists. Their commission and work was much the same with that of the apostles, to plant churches, and water the churches that were planted; and accordingly they were itinerants, as we find Timothy… Read the whole commentary →