1 Timothy 4:7
But reject those profane and old-womanish fables, and exercise yourself for godliness.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
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 give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which produce disputes rather than godly edification, which is in faith;
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 6:20O Timothy, keep that which is committed to your charge, avoiding those profane and empty babblings, and disputations about knowledge falsely so called;
2 Timothy 2:23But avoid foolish and unprofitable questions, because you know that they produce contentions:
2 Timothy 4:4and they will turn away their ears from the truth, and be turned to fables.
Titus 2:12teaching us, that denying ungodliness and worldly desires, we should live soberly and righteously and godly 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 →