1 Timothy 4:15

Be diligent in these matters and absorbed in them, so that your progress will be evident to all.

Majority Standard Bible

In The King James Version

Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.

In Context

14Do not neglect the gift that is in you, which was given you through the prophecy spoken over you at the laying on of the hands of the elders.

16Pay close attention to your life and to your teaching. Persevere in these things, for by so doing you will save both yourself and those who hear you.

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Cross References

Joshua 1:8This Book of the Law must not depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. For then you will prosper and succeed in all you do.

Psalms 19:14May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in Your sight, O LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer.

Psalms 63:6When I remember You on my bed, I think of You through the watches of the night.

Psalms 104:34May my meditation be pleasing to Him, for I rejoice in the LORD.

Psalms 119:15I will meditate on Your precepts and regard Your ways.

Psalms 119:48I lift up my hands to Your commandments, which I love, and I meditate on Your statutes.

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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