1 Timothy 4:7
But avoid foolish and old wives' fables: and exercise thyself unto godliness.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
But refuse profane and old wives’ fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.
In Context
Cross References
1 Timothy 1:4Not to give heed to fables and endless genealogies: which furnish questions rather than the edification of God, which is in faith.
1 Timothy 3:16And evidently great is the mystery of godliness, which was manifested in the flesh, was justified in the spirit, appeared unto angels, hath been preached unto the Gentiles, is believed in the world, is taken up in glory.
1 Timothy 6:20O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding the profane novelties of words, and oppositions of knowledge falsely so called.
2 Timothy 2:23And avoid foolish and unlearned questions, knowing that they beget strifes.
2 Timothy 4:4And will indeed turn away their hearing from the truth, but will be turned unto fables.
Titus 2:12Instructing us, that, denying ungodliness and worldly desires, we should live soberly, and justly, and godly in this world,
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 →