1 Timothy 4:7

Moreover, be-giving-cause/requesting-aside-self[i.e. ignore] the[plural] defiled/unhallowed/profane and old-woman-behold stories/tales/narratives/myths. Moreover, be-exercising yourself toward good-devotion,

Garth's Hyper-literal Translation

In The King James Version

But refuse profane and old wives’ fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.

In Context

6Placing-self-under the-same[plural] to{the brothers}, you-will-be [a] good servant of{Anointed Jesus}, being-nourished-in to{the words} of{the faith} and of{the good teaching-ia} which you-have-accompanied-beside.

8for the bodily exercise is-being profitable toward sparse/scant; moreover, the good-devotion is-being profitable toward all, having message-upon-ia/declaration of{being-alive[noun]} of{the} now and of{the about-to-be-being}.

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Cross References

1 Timothy 1:4nor to-be-having/holding-toward to{stories/tales/narratives/myths} and to{without-other-side-ive/inconclusive/endless genealogies}, the-what[plural] are-having-aside/presenting seek-sises[i.e. states of seeking] more than house-legislation of{God}, the in to{faith}.

1 Timothy 3:16and same-word-ly/acknowledge-ly large is-being the mystery of{the good-devotion}. God is-revealed in to{flesh}, is-justified in to{[the] Spirit}, is-seen to{messengers}, is-proclaimed in to{nations}, is-believed in to{[the] world}, is-taken-up in to{esteem/glory}.

1 Timothy 6:20Oh Timothy, guard the placed-beside, turning-self-out/diverting-self the defiled/unhallowed/profane empty-sound-ias/chatterings and opposing/contrary-placements/antitheses of{the falsely-named "knowledge"},

2 Timothy 2:23Moreover, be-giving-cause/requesting-aside-self[i.e. ignore] the foolish and un-child-ed/un-chastised/undisciplined/uninstructed/uneducated seek-sises[i.e. states of seeking], having-beheld that they-are-becoming fights.

2 Timothy 4:4and on-one-hand they-will-turn-off/away-from from of{the truth}, the heard[noun]; on-the-other-hand, they-will-be-turned-out/diverted upon the stories/tales/narratives/myths.

Titus 2:12child-ing/chastising/disciplining/instructing/educating us, in-which-place, deny[ing]-selves the undevotion and the worldly desire-upon-ias, sound-disposition-ly and justly and well-devotedly we-may-be-alive in to{the now eon},

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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