1 Timothy 4:7
but reject the profane and old women’s fables, and exercise yourself to piety,
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
But refuse profane and old wives’ fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.
In Context
Cross References
1 Timothy 1:4nor to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, that cause questions rather than [the] stewardship of God which [is] in faith.
1 Timothy 3:16and confessedly, great is the secret of piety: who was revealed in flesh, declared righteous in [the] Spirit, seen by messengers, preached among nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory!
1 Timothy 6:20O Timotheus, guard the thing entrusted, avoiding the profane vain-words and opposition of the falsely-named knowledge,
2 Timothy 2:23and be avoiding the foolish and uninstructed questions, having known that they beget strife,
2 Timothy 4:4and, indeed, they will turn away from hearing the truth, and they will be turned aside to the fables.
Titus 2:12teaching us, that denying the impiety and the worldly desires, we may live soberly, and righteously, and piously in the present 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 →