1 TIMOTHY CHAPTER 6 1 TIMOTHY 6:1,2 The duty of servants. 1 TIMOTHY 6:3 Those who teach not according to the apostle's doctrine are to be avoided, as corrupters of Christianity. 1 TIMOTHY 6:6 The gain of godliness with content. 1 TIMOTHY 6:9,10 The evil of covetousness. 1 TIMOTHY 6:11 What Timothy i... [ Continue Reading ]
Some Christians were servants to Jews or pagans, who both came under the gospel notion of believers; as to these the apostle had given directions in 1 TIMOTHY 6:1. Others served masters and mistresses that were Christians. The apostle, not ignorant of Satan's devices, foresaw that the former would b... [ Continue Reading ]
IF ANY MAN TEACH OTHERWISE; if there be any person who either more publicly or more privately shall take upon him to instruct people otherwise. AND CONSENT NOT TO WHOLESOME WORDS: what he means by wholesome words his next words show; they are called wholesome because they tend to prevent the sicknes... [ Continue Reading ]
OLBGrk; HE IS PROUD; tetufwtai, he is swelled or blown up, i.e. with pride swelling in opinion and conceit of himself, he is a fanatic. KNOWING NOTHING solidly and truly, BUT DOTING ABOUT QUESTIONS AND STRIFES OF WORDS; is brain sick about questions of no use, but to make a contention about words.... [ Continue Reading ]
OLBGrk; PERVERSE DISPUTINGS OF MEN OF CORRUPT MINDS, AND DESTITUTE OF THE TRUTH; paradiatribai, mutual tearings, and gallings of or interferings with one another. The word is applied to horses knocking one foot against another. The word without the preposition para signifies school conflicts by dis... [ Continue Reading ]
OLBGrk; GODLINESS, the exercise of a true faith in Christ, conjoined with a holy life, is a good revenue of itself, having in it autarkeiav, a self-sufficiency. He doth not here suppose that godliness can be separated from a contented frame of spirit with that lot which God hath chosen for us, for... [ Continue Reading ]
This agreeth with JOB 1:21, and with experience, and is a potent argument against immoderate desires of having much of this world's goods, or using extravagant actions to obtain them; for when we have got all we can, we have got but a _viaticum, _ something to serve us in our journey, which we must... [ Continue Reading ]
If therefore God gives us any thing more than is necessary for us, let us take it thankfully, and use it for God's glory; but if we have no more than is just necessary for us, let us not repine, or murmur, but be content, without murmuring against God, or using any undue means, out of an inordinate... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT; or, for. THEY THAT WILL BE RICH; they who, out of a covetous and immoderate desire of being rich in this world's goods, will use any arts, and do any unlawful thing, without any just regard to the law of God. FALL INTO TEMPTATION AND A SNARE; fall into many temptations and snares, are exposed t... [ Continue Reading ]
OLBGrk; FOR THE LOVE OF MONEY IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL; money itself is not evil, but the immoderate love of it, whether discerned in an over eager desire after it, or an excessive delight in it, is the cause of much evil, both of sin and punishment. WHICH WHILE SOME COVETED AFTER, THEY HAVE ERRED F... [ Continue Reading ]
O MAN OF GOD; that is, O thou minister of God, whose service is not the service of the world. It is a compellation borrowed from the Old Testament, where we find it often applied to such whose work was to reveal the Divine will, 2 KINGS 1:9, 2 KINGS 4:40,42. By giving Timothy this compellation, he m... [ Continue Reading ]
The FIGHT OF FAITH is our encountering that opposition which we meet with from the world, the flesh, or the devil, for a strenuous defending the doctrine of faith, or making it good by a life suitable to the rule of faith. This is called a GOOD FIGHT, either in opposition to the bad fights of the me... [ Continue Reading ]
The apostle's care of the church showeth itself in these severe charges laid upon Timothy; though one whom he knew to be a faithful minister, he chargeth him, calling God to witness that he had fulfilled his part in laying this charge upon him. The name he here giveth unto God may possibly have a pa... [ Continue Reading ]
The charge is, that he faithfully perform all the duties belonging to him as a Christian and a minister, commissioned from God, in the whole course of his life, that he may not be liable to a just accusation for the neglect of any part of his office. This is enforced by the consideration of the appe... [ Continue Reading ]
OLBGrk; WHICH IN HIS TIMES HE SHALL SHOW; on Which Christ coming the second time, God in his time, his proper seasons, (so it is in the Greek), will show. Or: Which appearing of our Lord Jesus God in his time will show; for some Greek copies read the article in the feminine termination, to distingui... [ Continue Reading ]
WHO ONLY HATH IMMORTALITY; of himself; our souls and angels are immortal from the gift of God: or _immortality_ signifies here the same with eternity, or immutability. DWELLING IN THE LIGHT; continually encompassed with a glory that is unspeakable, 1 JOHN 1:5. WHICH NO MAN CAN APPROACH UNTO; to whic... [ Continue Reading ]
CHARGE THEM THAT ARE RICH IN THIS WORLD: those that are rich in grace, and the good things of another life, need not this charge; but there are divers at Ephesus who have great estates in goods, or houses, or lands, and but poor in gracious habits, charge them. THAT THEY BE NOT HIGHMINDED; that thei... [ Continue Reading ]
THAT THEY DO GOOD; that is, to others, as they have opportunity. THAT THEY BE RICH IN GOOD WORKS; be plentiful in alms-deeds, or more generally in all good works of piety or charity. READY TO DISTRIBUTE; that they be not backward to distribute that of which God hath made them stewards, to those that... [ Continue Reading ]
Riches in themselves are but for the present, but there is a use may be made of them _for the time to come, _ if we employ them for the better enabling us to do what God hath commanded us to do, MATTHEW 6:20 LUKE 12:33: those acts of obedience to the command of God for the use of our estates, though... [ Continue Reading ]
O TIMOTHY, KEEP THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED TO THY TRUST; either the doctrine of the gospel, which ministers ought to keep pure, and without mixture, or the ministerial office; be true and faithful in the discharge of it, preaching Christ and the doctrine of Christ. AVOIDING PROFANE AND VAIN BABBLINGS;... [ Continue Reading ]
WHICH SOME PROFESSING HAVE ERRED CONCERNING THE FAITH; which kind of science, some pretending and boasting of, studying to show themselves learned and subtle men, they have been led into errors in Christianity, apostatizing from the doctrine of faith. GRACE BE WITH THEE; viz. the _grace, mercy, and... [ Continue Reading ]