1 Timothy 4:7
But avoid the silly fables of old women. And exercise yourself so as to advance in piety.
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In The King James Version
But refuse profane and old wives’ fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.
In Context
Cross References
1 Timothy 1:4against those who have been paying attention to fables and endless genealogies. These things present questions as if they were greater than the edification that is of God, which is in faith.
1 Timothy 3:16And it is clearly great, this mystery of piety, which was manifested in the flesh, which was justified in the Spirit, which has appeared to Angels, which has been preached to the Gentiles, which is believed in the world, which has been taken up in glory.
1 Timothy 6:20O Timothy, guard what has been deposited with you, avoiding the voice of profane novelties and of opposing ideas, which are falsely called knowledge.
2 Timothy 2:23But avoid foolish and undisciplined questions, for you know that these produce strife.
2 Timothy 4:4and certainly, they will turn their hearing away from the truth, and they will be turned toward fables.
Titus 2:12instructing us to reject impiety and worldly desires, so that we may live soberly and justly and piously in this 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 →