1 Timothy 4:13
Till I come, give attention to the reading of the holy Writings, to comforting the saints, and to teaching.
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In The King James Version
Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.
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Deuteronomy 17:19And it is to be with him for his reading all the days of his life, so that he may be trained in the fear of the Lord his God to keep and do all the words of this teaching and these laws:
Psalms 1:2But whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and whose mind is on his law day and night.
Proverbs 2:4If you are looking for her as for silver, and searching for her as for stored-up wealth;
John 5:39You make search in the holy Writings, in the belief that through them you get eternal life; and it is those Writings which give witness about me.
Acts 17:11Now these were more noble than the Jews of Thessalonica, for they gave serious attention to the word, searching in the holy Writings every day, to see if these things were so.
1 Corinthians 14:3But the word of the prophet gives men knowledge and comfort and strength.
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 →