1 Timothy 4:12
Let no one despise your youth, but be an example among the faithful in word, in behavior, in charity, in faith, in chastity.
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In Context
11Instruct and teach these things.
13Until I arrive, attend to reading, to exhortation, and to doctrine.
Cross References
Matthew 18:10See to it that you do not despise even one of these little ones. For I say to you, that their Angels in heaven continually look upon the face of my Father, who is in heaven.
1 Corinthians 16:10Now if Timothy arrives, see to it that he may be among you without fear. For he is doing the work of the Lord, just as I also do.
Philippians 4:8Concerning the rest, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is chaste, whatever is just, whatever is holy, whatever is worthy to be loved, whatever is of good repute, if there is any virtue, if there is any praiseworthy discipline: meditate on these.
1 Thessalonians 2:10You are witnesses, as is God, of how holy and just and blameless we were with you who have believed.
1 Timothy 1:14And so the grace of our Lord has abounded greatly, with the faith and love that is in Christ Jesus.
2 Timothy 2:15Be solicitous in the task of presenting yourself before God as a proven and unashamed worker who has handled the Word of Truth correctly.
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 →