1 Timothy 4:15
Do these things that I have told you to do! ◄Concentrate on them/Do them sincerely and wholeheartedly► in order that everyone may see that you are improving in how you do them.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.
In Context
Cross References
Joshua 1:8Make sure to habitually read to the people some of the laws that God gave Moses. Meditate on those laws every day and every night. And be sure to obey all those laws. If you do that, you will be successful in everything that you do [DOU].
Psalms 19:14O Yahweh, you are like an overhanging rock [MET] under which I can be safe; you are the one who protects me. I hope/desire that the things that I say and what I think will always please you.
Psalms 63:6While I lie on my bed, I think about you. I think/meditate about you all during the night,
Psalms 104:34I want Yahweh to be pleased by all those things that I have thought about him, because I rejoice about knowing him.
Psalms 119:15I will ◄study/think about► ◄your principles of behavior/what you have declared that we should do►, and I will pay attention to what you have showed me.
Psalms 119:48I respect/revere [IDM] ◄your commands/what you have commanded►, and I love them, and I will ◄meditate on/think about► ◄your statutes/what you have decreed that we should do►.
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 →