What does 1 Timothy 4:8 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"For bodily exercise profiteth little:a but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come."
Verse 8. _FOR BODILY EXERCISE PROFITETH LITTLE_] Προς ολιγον εστιν ωφελιμος. Those gymnastic exercises, so highly esteemed among the Greeks, are but _little worth_; they are but of _short_ _duration_;...
FOR BODILY EXERCISE PROFITETH LITTLE - Margin, “for a little time.” The Greek will admit of either interpretation, and what is here affirmed is true in either sense. The bodily exercise to which the a...
IV. CONCERNING THE LATTER-DAY APOSTASY CHAPTER 4 _ 1. What the Spirit has predicted (1 Timothy 4:1)_ 2. The remedies against apostasy (1 Timothy 4:6) 1 Timothy 4:1 The mystery of godliness having...
THE TREATMENT NEEDED. Timothy must meet the errors by (_a)_ personal example (1 Timothy 4:6) and (_b_) diligent teaching (1 Timothy 4:11). In combating error he must continually draw his strength from...
THE SERVICE OF GOD OR THE SERVICE OF SATAN (1 Timothy 4:1-5)...
EXERCISE. Greek. _gunmasia_. Only here. PROFITETH, is profitable. Greek. ophelimos. Here; 2 Timothy 3:16; Titus 3:8. LITTLE. onto (ue 1 Timothy 4:7) a, little (matter). LIFE. App-170....
_bodily exercise profiteth little_ Rather, with R.V., BODILY EXERCISE IS PROFITABLE FOR A LITTLE. The Latin of Theod. Mops. gives the straightforward and natural account: -corporalis exercitatio ad mo...
6–10. i. TIMOTHY’S DUTY IN RESPECT OF THE FALSE ASCETICISM...
ΣΩΜΑΤΙΚΌΣ (G4984) телесный, принадлежащий телу, ΓΥΜΝΑΣΊΑ (G1129) упражнение. Телесные упражнения были ошибкой еретиков, и автор письма предостерегает против них. В данной фразе Павел имеет в виду не...
DISCOURSE: 2231 GODLINESS PROFITABLE UNTO ALL THINGS 1 Timothy 4:8. _Godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come. This is a faithful...
FOR BODILY EXERCISE PROFITETH LITTLE:— The apostle, 1 Timothy 4:7 had said, _Exercise thyself,_ as applied to a Christian life; and therefore he here uses the word _exercise,_ as applied to bodily lab...
THE PREACHER AND THE FALSE TEACHERS. 1 Timothy 4:6-10 _TEXT 4:6-10_ 6 If thou put the brethren in mind of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the f...
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. (BUT) LITTLE, [ pros (G4314) oligon (G3641)]...
3 Translators have experienced much difficulty with this opening sentence, because it seemed to lack the principal verb. The A V adds _ so do_, the Revisers _ so do I now_. It is very seldom that any...
4:8 little, (g-8) That is, 'some small thing,' rather than 'a little time.' It is in evident contrast with 'everything.'...
VARIOUS DIRECTIONS AND EXHORTATIONS 1-10. A return to, and emphatic reiteration of, the first charge to Timothy (1 Timothy 1:3) against heterodoxy and in favour of true godliness. This form of hetero...
HOW TO BE A LEADER IN THE CHURCH 1 TIMOTHY _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 4 WARNING AGAINST FALSE TEACHERS (4:1-5) V1 The Spirit clearly says that in the last days some people will turn from the *faith...
FOR BODILY EXERCISE PROFITETH LITTLE. — More accurately rendered, _bodily exercise is profitable for little._ St. Paul here, no doubt, was thinking of those bodily austerities alluded to in 1 Timothy...
CHAPTER 13 THE COMPARATIVE VALUE OF BODILY EXERCISE AND OF GODLINESS. - 1 Timothy 4:7. IT is almost impossible to decide what St. Paul here means by "bodily exercise." Not that either the phrase or...
The spread of these mischievous notions among the brethren is most effectively discouraged by a demonstration in the person of the minister himself of the positive teaching of the Gospel as to practic...
REJECT FALSE AND FOOLISH TEACHING 1 Timothy 4:1 We have here the Apostle's forecast of the last times, _i.e_., the condition in which men will find themselves as the age draws to a close. Notwithsta...
Having thus dealt with the Church, the apostle showed Timothy how he was to fulfil his responsibility. He had a duty toward the truth, and therefore toward the Church. In order to correct errors which...
A GOOD MINISTER OF JESUS CHRIST If Timothy presented lessons to the Ephesians that caused them to see the truths already presented, which included instructions on the dangerous false doctrine soon to...
(12) 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. (12) Godliness consists in spiritual exer...
Some think St. Paul alludes in this verse to the corporal exercises of wrestlers, which procured them but a little short renown, whereas the works of piety have a more lasting reward. (Menochius, Tiri...
(6) В¶ 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...
1 Timothy 1:1-20. We enter now on the confidential communications of the apostle to some of his fellow-labourers, and tonight on the epistles to Timothy. The two have much in common, but they have als...
_CHRISTIAN DISCIPLINE_ ‘And exercise thyself unto godliness: for bodily exercise is profitable for a little.’ 1 Timothy 4:7 (R.V.) Godliness, and not asceticism, is to be the Christian’s aim. ‘Bodi...
8_For bodily exercise is of little profit_. By the exercise “of the body,” he does not mean that which lies in hunting, or in the race-course, or in wrestling, or in digging, or in the mechanical occu...
But there would be some who departed from the faith, from this knowledge of the one Creator and Saviour-God Him who was manifested in the flesh. They would attack precisely these points which we have...
FOR BODILY EXERCISE PROFITETH LITTLE,.... Meaning not the exercise of the body in the Olympic games, as by running, wrestling, c. which profited but little, for the obtaining of a corruptible crown at...
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. Ver. 8. _For bodily exercise profiteth little_...
_For bodily exercise profiteth little_ That is, say Estius, Whitby, Doddridge, and some others, the exercises about which many are so solicitous, and in the pursuit of which they go through so many fa...
BODILY EXERCISE; the discipline of the body by fastings and other austerities, considered as a religious exercise. Godliness is profitable for both worlds; and the man who makes it his great object to...
THE PERSONAL CONDUCT OF TIMOTHY. Timothy as a good teacher:...
The solemn warning here is in startling contrast to the preciousness of what we have considered as to God manifest in flesh. How cold is the heart of man that he will turn deliberately from a faith so...
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. 1. Exercise - Does God require us to exercise...
LITTLE: Or, for a little time...
“For bodily exercise”: SOME WRITERS ARGUE THAT “BODILY EXERCISE” IN THIS CONTEXT REFERS TO THE PRACTICES IN 1 TIMOTHY 4:1-3, YET PAUL DOES NOT ARGUE THAT SUCH PRACTICES ARE OF. LITTLE PROFIT, RATHER H...
6-10 Outward acts of self-denial profit little. What will it avail us to mortify the body, if we do not mortify sin? No diligence in mere outward things could be of much use. The gain of godliness lie...
FOR BODILY EXERCISE PROFITETH LITTLE; bodily discipline, lying in abstaining from certain meats, keeping set fasts, watchings, lying upon the ground, going barefoot, wearing sackcloth or haircloth, ab...
Clement of Alexandria Exhortation to the Heathen What, then, is this knowledge? Godliness; and "godliness," according to Paul, "is profitable for all things, having the promise of the life that now i...
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PAUL NOW GIVES A MORE DETAILED ACCOUNT OF WHAT TIMOTHY'S MINISTRY WILL INVOLVE (1 TIMOTHY 4:1 TO 1 TIMOTHY 6:10). It is interesting how much the second half of this letter is patterned on the first. B...
1 Timothy 4:8. BODILY EXERCISE. The figure is continued. We can hardly suppose that Timothy ‘trained,' as the Greek athlete did, with a view to the prizes for which the athlete contended. But the exam...
BODILY EXERCISE (η σωματικη γυμνασια). Γυμνασια (from γυμναζω), also a common old word, here only in N.T. So also σωματικη (from σωμα, body) in N.T. only here and Luke 3:22.PROFITABLE (ωφελιμος)....
1 Timothy 4:8 The Right Human Life is its own Reward. I. The life which we have received from nature, beyond a very brief stage, is impracticable: it will not hold together. One and one only human l...
CONTENTS: Walk of a good minister of Christ. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Paul, Timothy. CONCLUSION: Those are good ministers of Jesus Christ who are diligent to instil into the minds of th...
1 Timothy 4:1. _Now the Spirit speaketh expressly,_ “learnedly, openly, perspicuously, and not in shadows, as was the manner of the ancient prophets.” THEOPHYLACT. See the note on 2 Thessalonians 2:1....
BUT SPIRITUAL EXERCISE. The Greeks spent a lot of time training and developing their bodies for the Games. In this same way, Christians are to think of themselves as _in training_ for Eternity! [_MacK...
_If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things._ COUNSELS TO GOD’S SERVANTS The wise counsels given here to Timothy have their value in every age, and in every land, for those who are call...
1 TIMOTHY—NOTE ON 1 TIMOTHY 4:6 How Timothy Should Be Shaped by the Gospel. Paul focuses on how Timothy, by his teaching and lifestyle, can help the church stand against the false teaching. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ 1 Timothy 4:8. FOR BODILY EXERCISE PROFITETH LITTLE.—The meaning which seems simplest may here be the correct one, as many able scholars think—bodily exercise, develo...
EXPOSITION 1 TIMOTHY 4:1 _But _for _now_,_ _A.V.; _saith _for _speaketh_,_ _A.V.;_ later _for _the latter_,_ _A.V.;_ fall away _for _depart_,_ _A.V. THE SPIRIT SAITH EXPRESSLY (ῥητῶς);_ _only here...
Ver. 8. The reason follows: _for bodily exercise is profitable unto little, but godliness is profitable unto all things._ Commentators have long been, and still are, divided as to what should be under...
Now the Spirit speaks expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils (1 Timothy 4:1); Here Paul speaks of a departure f...
1 Corinthians 3:22; 1 Corinthians 8:8; 1 John 2:25; 1 Samuel 15:22; 1 Timothy 6:6; 2 Peter 1:3; 2 Peter 1:4; Amos 5:21; Colossians 2:21;...
Bodily exercise [η σ ω μ α τ ι κ η γ υ μ ν α σ ι α]. With gumnasia comp. gumnaze, ver. 7. N. T. o. Swmatikov bodily only here and Luke 3:22. o LXX The adverb swmatikwv bodily - wise, Colossians 2:9. T...
Bodily exercise profiteth a little — Increases the health and strength of the body....
By BODILY EXERCISE he meaneth corporal austerities, abstinence from meats and marriage; all the external exercises of religion; these do profit. little, though but. little, in comparsion of the profit...