1 Timothy 4:15

These things exercise, and giue thy selfe vnto them, that it may be seene howe thou profitest among all men.

Geneva Bible 1599

In The King James Version

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

In Context

14Despise not the gift that is in thee, which was giuen thee by prophecie with the laying on of the hands of the companie of the Eldership.

16Take heede vnto thy selfe, and vnto learning: continue therein: for in doing this thou shalt both saue thy selfe, and them that heare thee.

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Cross References

Joshua 1:8Let not this booke of the Law depart out of thy mouth, but meditate therin day and night, that thou mayest obserue and doe according to all that is written therein: for then shalt thou make thy way prosperous, and then shalt thou haue good successe.

Psalms 19:14Let the wordes of my mouth, and the meditation of mine heart be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength, and my redeemer.

Psalms 63:6When I remember thee on my bedde, and when I thinke vpon thee in the night watches.

Psalms 104:34Let my wordes be acceptable vnto him: I will reioyce in the Lord.

Psalms 119:15I will meditate in thy precepts, and consider thy waies.

Psalms 119:48Mine handes also will I lift vp vnto thy commandements, which I haue loued, and I will meditate in thy 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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