1 Timothy 4:16
Take heed to thyself and to doctrine: be earnest in them. For in doing this thou shalt both save thyself and them that hear thee.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
15Meditate upon these things, be wholly in these things: that thy profiting may be manifest to all.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 19:6And charging the judges, he said: Take heed what you do: for you exercise not the judgment of man, but of the Lord: and whatsoever you judge, it shall redound to you.
Jeremiah 23:22If they stood in my counsel, and had made my words known to my people, I should have turned them from their evil way and from their wicked doings.
Ezekiel 33:7So thou, O son of man, I have made thee a watchman to the house of Israel: therefore thou shalt hear the word from my mouth, and shalt tell it them from me.
Luke 21:34And take heed to yourselves, lest perhaps your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness, and the cares of this life, and that day come upon you suddenly.
Acts 20:26Wherefore I take you to witness this day, that I am clear from the blood of all men;
Romans 2:7To them indeed, who according to patience in good work, seek glory and honour and incorruption, eternal life:
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 →