1 Timothy 4:8
For bodily exercise is profitable to little: but godliness is profitable to all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
7But avoid foolish and old wives' fables: and exercise thyself unto godliness.
9A faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:1Now if thou wilt hear the voice of the Lord thy God, to do and keep all his commandments, which I command thee this day, the Lord thy God will make thee higher than all the nations that are on the earth.
Job 5:19In six troubles he shall deliver thee, and in the seventh, evil shall not touch thee.
Psalms 37:3Trust in the Lord, and do good, and dwell in the land, and thou shalt be fed with its riches.
Psalms 37:11But the meek shall inherit the land, and shall delight in abundance of peace.
Psalms 37:29But the just shall inherit the land, and shall dwell therein for evermore.
Psalms 84:11For better is one day in thy courts above thousands. I have chosen to be an abject in the house of my God, rather than to dwell in the tabernacles of sinners.
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 →