1 Timothy 1:3
Even as I exhorted thee to remain in Ephesus, when I was journeying into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge some—
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Acts 18:19And they came down to Ephesus; and, as for them, he left them there,—but, himself entering into the synagogue, he reasoned with the Jews.
Acts 20:1But, after the tumult had ceased, Paul, sending for the disciples and exhorting them, took leave, and went forth to be journeying unto Macedonia.
Ephesians 4:14That we may, no longer, be infants—billow-tossed and shifted round with every wind of teaching,—in the craft of men, in knavery suited to the artifice of error;
Colossians 2:6As therefore ye have accepted the Anointed Jesus as your Lord, in him, be walking,—
1 Timothy 4:11Be giving these things in charge, and be teaching:—
1 Timothy 6:3If anyone doth otherwise teach, and doth not adhere to healthful discourses—those of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the teaching that is, according to godliness,
Matthew Henry on 1 Timothy 1:2-5
First Timothy Hitherto Paul's epistles were directed to churches; now follow some to particular persons: two to Timothy, one to Titus, and another to Philemon—all three ministers. Timothy and Titus were evangelists, an inferior order to the apostles, as appears by Eph. iv. 11 , Some prophets, some apostles, some evangelists. Their commission and work was much the same with that of the apostles, to plant churches, and water the churches that were planted; and accordingly they were itinerants, as we find Timothy… Read the whole commentary →