1 Timothy 4:7 — King James Version← Study notes
“But refuse profane and old wives’ fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.”
1 Timothy 4:7 — Greek Interlinear
Greek · 1 Timothy 4:712 words
ℹGreek text from the SBL Greek New Testament (SBLGNT). Transliteration follows SBL Academic conventions.
Church Fathers on 1 Timothy 4:7
“Putting them in remembrance,” he says; here you observe no authority; but all is condescension: he does not say “commanding” or “enjoining,” but reminding them: that is, suggest these things as matter of advice, and so enter into discourses with them concerning the faith, “being nourished up,” he says, meaning to imply constancy in application to these things. For as we set before us day by day this bodily nourishment, so he means, let us be continually receiving discourses…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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