1 Τὸ δὲ πνεῦμα ῥητῶς λέγει, ὅτι ἐν ὑστέροις καιροῖς ἀποστήσονταί τινες τῆς πίστεως, προσέχοντες πνεύμασι πλάνοις καὶ διδασκαλίαις δαιμονίων, 2 ἐν ὑποκρίσει ψευδολόγων, κεκαυτηριασμένων τὴν ἰδίαν συνείδησιν, 3 κωλυόντων γαμεῖν, ἀπέχεσθαι βρωμάτων, ἃ ὁ Θεὸς ἔκτισεν εἰς μετάληψιν μετὰ εὐχαριστίας τοῖς πιστοῖς καὶ ἐπεγνωκόσι τὴν ἀλήθειαν. 4 Ὅτι πᾶν κτίσμα Θεοῦ καλόν, καὶ οὐδὲν ἀπόβλητον, μετὰ εὐχαριστίας λαμβανόμενον· 5 ἁγιάζεται γὰρ διὰ λόγου Θεοῦ καὶ ἐντεύξεως. 6 Ταῦτα ὑποτιθέμενος τοῖς ἀδελφοῖς καλὸς ἔσῃ διάκονος Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, ἐντρεφόμενος τοῖς λόγοις τῆς πίστεως, καὶ τῆς καλῆς διδασκαλίας ᾗ παρηκολούθηκας. 7 Τοὺς δὲ βεβήλους καὶ γραώδεις μύθους παραιτοῦ. Γύμναζε δὲ σεαυτὸν πρὸς εὐσέβειαν· 8 ἡ γὰρ σωματικὴ γυμνασία πρὸς ὀλίγον ἐστὶν ὠφέλιμος· ἡ δὲ εὐσέβεια πρὸς πάντα ὠφέλιμός ἐστιν, ἐπαγγελίαν ἔχουσα ζωῆς τῆς νῦν καὶ τῆς μελλούσης. 9 Πιστὸς ὁ λόγος καὶ πάσης ἀποδοχῆς ἄξιος. 10 Εἰς τοῦτο γὰρ καὶ κοπιῶμεν καὶ ὀνειδιζόμεθα, ὅτι ἠλπίκαμεν ἐπὶ Θεῷ ζῶντι, ὅς ἐστι σωτὴρ πάντων ἀνθρώπων, μάλιστα πιστῶν. 11 Παράγγελλε ταῦτα καὶ δίδασκε. 12 Μηδείς σου τῆς νεότητος καταφρονείτω, ἀλλὰ τύπος γίνου τῶν πιστῶν ἐν λόγῳ, ἐν ἀναστροφῇ, ἐν ἀγάπῃ, ἐν πνεύματι, ἐν πίστει, ἐν ἁγνείᾳ. 13 Ἕως ἔρχομαι, πρόσεχε τῇ ἀναγνώσει, τῇ παρακλήσει, τῇ διδασκαλίᾳ. 14 Μὴ ἀμέλει τοῦ ἐν σοὶ χαρίσματος, ὃ ἐδόθη σοι διὰ προφητείας μετὰ ἐπιθέσεως τῶν χειρῶν τοῦ πρεσβυτερίου. 15 Ταῦτα μελέτα, ἐν τούτοις ἴσθι, ἵνα σου ἡ προκοπὴ φανερὰ ᾖ ἐν πᾶσιν. 16 Ἔπεχε σεαυτῷ καὶ τῇ διδασκαλίᾳ. Ἐπίμενε αὐτοῖς· τοῦτο γὰρ ποιῶν καὶ σεαυτὸν σώσεις καὶ τοὺς ἀκούοντάς σου.
1 Timothy · Textus Receptus (Boyd collation)
1 Timothy 4 Textus Receptus (Boyd collation)
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Notes on this text (1)
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Cross references (16)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 2 Timothy 3:1–9; 2 Peter 2:1; 2 Corinthians 11:13–15; Jude 18; 2 Thessalonians 2:3–12
- 2 Ephesians 4:19; Romans 16:18; Acts 20:30; Romans 1:28; Matthew 24:24
- 3 Hebrews 13:4; 1 Timothy 4:4; Romans 14:6; Colossians 2:16; 1 Corinthians 10:30–31
- 4 Romans 14:20; 1 Corinthians 10:25; Romans 14:14; 1 Corinthians 10:23; Acts 21:25
- 5 1 Timothy 4:3; Luke 4:4; 1 Corinthians 7:14; Titus 1:15; Luke 11:41
- 6 Titus 2:7–10; Colossians 3:16; 2 Peter 3:1–2; Colossians 4:7; Matthew 13:52
- 7 2 Timothy 2:16; Titus 2:12; 1 Timothy 1:4; 2 Peter 1:5–8; Titus 3:9
- 8 Matthew 6:33; 1 Timothy 6:6; Psalm 37:3–4; Proverbs 19:23; Proverbs 22:4
- 9 1 Timothy 1:15
- 10 1 Timothy 2:4; 1 John 2:2; John 1:29; 1 John 4:14; 1 Timothy 2:6
- 11 1 Timothy 6:2; 2 Timothy 4:2; Titus 2:15; 1 Timothy 5:7; Titus 3:8
- 12 Titus 2:7; 2 Timothy 2:22; 2 Timothy 2:15; 1 Peter 5:3; 2 Peter 1:5–8
- 13 Acts 6:4; Titus 2:15; 2 Timothy 4:2; 1 Timothy 4:16; Acts 17:11
- 14 2 Timothy 1:6; 1 Peter 4:9–11; 1 Timothy 1:18; Acts 6:6; 1 Timothy 5:22
- 15 Matthew 5:16; Psalm 143:5; Philippians 2:15–16; Psalm 104:34; Psalm 119:48
- 16 Titus 1:9; Titus 2:7; 2 John 8–9; 1 Corinthians 3:10–11; Ezekiel 33:7–9
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What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
As those who adhere to the faith are fixed on a safe anchor, so those who fall from the faith can nowhere rest; but after many wanderings to and fro, they are borne at last into the very gulf of perdition.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 13 (1889)
Thou hast taught me, good Father, that "unto the pure all things are pure;" but "it is evil for that man who eateth with offence;" "and that every creature of Thine is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with, thanksgiving;" and that "meat commendeth us not to God;" and that no man should "judge us in …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
… neither condemn the men as sinners, nor abhor the flesh as strange food; for the Apostle knows some of this sort, when he says: forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by them that believe.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
In the First Epistle to Timothy do we not read: "These things command and teach?" What these things are, has been told previously.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
And that the Holy Ghost subsists, and lives, and speaks, and foretells, I have often said in what goes before, and Paul writes it plainly to Timothy: Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in later times some shall depart from the faith,--which we see in the divisions not only of former times but also of our own; so motley …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)