1 Timothy 4:7

But profane and old wives' fables avoid, but exercise thyself unto piety;

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

But refuse profane and old wives’ fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.

In Context

6Laying these things before the brethren, thou wilt be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished with the words of the faith and of the good teaching which thou hast fully followed up.

8for bodily exercise is profitable for a little, but piety is profitable for everything, having promise of life, of the present one, and of that to come.

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Cross References

1 Timothy 1:4nor to turn their minds to fables and interminable genealogies, which bring questionings rather than [further] God's dispensation, which [is] in faith.

1 Timothy 3:16And confessedly the mystery of piety is great. God has been manifested in flesh, has been justified in [the] Spirit, has appeared to angels, has been preached among [the] nations, has been believed on in [the] world, has been received up in glory.

1 Timothy 6:20O Timotheus, keep the entrusted deposit, avoiding profane, vain babblings, and oppositions of false-named knowledge,

2 Timothy 2:23But foolish and senseless questionings avoid, knowing that they beget contentions.

2 Timothy 4:4and they will turn away their ear from the truth, and will have turned aside to fables.

Titus 2:12teaching us that, having denied impiety and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, and justly, and piously in the present course of things,

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 →

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