1 Timothy 4:7
But cast awaye vngostly and olde wyves fables. Exercyse thy silfe vnto godlines.
Tyndale New Testament
In The King James Version
But refuse profane and old wives’ fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.
In Context
Cross References
1 Timothy 1:4nether geve hede to fables and genealogies which are endlesse and brede doutes more then godly edyfyinge which is by fayth:
1 Timothy 3:16And with out naye great is that mistery of godlines: God was shewed in the flesshe was iustified in the sprete was sene of angels was preached vnto the gentyls was beleved on in erth and receaved vp in glory.
1 Timothy 6:20O Timothe save that which is geve ye to kepe and avoyde vngostly vanities of voyces and opposicios of sciece falsly so called
2 Timothy 2:23Folisshe and vnlearned questions put from the remebrynge that they do but gendre stryfe.
2 Timothy 4:4and shall turne their eares from the trueth and shalbe geven vnto fables.
Titus 2:12and teacheth vs that we shuld denye vngodlynes and worldy lustes and that we shuld live sobre mynded righteously and godly in this present worlde
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 →