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1 Timothy 4:6-16

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.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 1 Timothy 4:6. _IF THOU PUT THE BRETHREN IN REMEMBRANCE OF THESE_ _THINGS_] Show the Church that, even now, there is danger of this apostasy; put them on their guard against it; for the forewar...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    IF THOU PUT THE BRETHREN IN REMEMBRANCE OF THESE THINGS - Of the truths just stated. They are, therefore, proper subjects to preach upon. It is the duty of the ministry to show to the people of their...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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 h

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    THE SERVICE OF GOD OR THE SERVICE OF SATAN (1 Timothy 4:1-5)...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    If you lay these things before the brothers, you will be a fine servant of Jesus Christ, if you feed your life on the words of faith, and of the fine teaching of which you have been a student and a fo...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    IF THOU PUT, &c. Literally Putting... in remembrance. Greek. _hupotithemi_. Only here and Romans 16:4. MINISTER. App-190. JESUS CHRIST, App-98. The texts read "Christ Jesus" (XII). NOURISHED UP. Gr...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Timothy's own hold of right doctrine and right discipline 6. _in remembrance_ R.V. has IN MIND, the Greek not so strongly implying a re-presentation of these points as a -representation" in our moder...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    III. THE DANGERS OF THE FUTURE. 1–6...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    Rec. text has Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ with D2c and cursives; but Χρ. Ἰησοῦ is found in אACD2*GKLP &c. See critical note on 1 Timothy 1:16. ΠΑΡΗΚΟΛΟΎΘΗΚΑΣ. So nearly all authorities; but Westcott and Hort, on th...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    6–10. i. TIMOTHY’S DUTY IN RESPECT OF THE FALSE ASCETICISM...

  • Charles Rose Commentaries

    ΥΠΟΤΙΘΈΜΕΝΟΣ _praes. med. (dep.) part. от_ ΎΠΟΤΊΘΗΜΙ (G5294) класть что-л.; med: предлагать или выделять что-л. (BAGD). Part, может иметь условное значение ("если ты предложишь") [Ellicott]) или может...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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 fa...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    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. IF TH...

  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

    1 The signs of the last days are all present with us now. The teaching of deceiving spirits and demons has become one of the great and popular cults of the day. Their deception seems chiefly to take t...

  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

    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...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    4:6 minister (e-12) Or 'servant,' _ diakonos_ , as ch. 3.8. up. (f-33) Or 'been thoroughly acquainted with.' see Luke 1:3 ; 2 Timothy 3:10 ....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    MINISTER] The word _diaconus_ is still used in its general sense (cp. Ephesians 3:7) as well as specifically (1 Timothy 3:8)....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    IF THOU PUT THE BRETHREN IN REMEMBRANCE OF THESE THINGS. — The “things” of which he was to put the brethren in mind were those practices connected with that foolish, false asceticism alluded to in 1 T...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    ταῦτα : repeated in 1 Timothy 4:11, refers to all the preceding directions, but more especially to the warnings against false asceticism. ὑποτιθέμενος : (_remind, suggest_) is a somewhat mild term, a...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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. Notwithstan...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    (9) 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 (f) attained....

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (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...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    6_Exhibiting these things to the brethren _By this expression he exhorts Timothy to mention those things frequently; and he afterwards repeats this a second and a third time; for they are things of su...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    IF THOU PUT THE BRETHREN IN REMEMBRANCE OF THESE THINGS,.... Either of all the main and principal things already mentioned in the preceding Chapter s; as that the end of the commandment is love; that...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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. Ver. 6....

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _If thou put the brethren in remembrance_, &c. Ταυτα υποτιθεμενος τοις αδελφοις, _suggesting these things to the brethren_, concerning the lawfulness of all sorts of meats, and concerning the corrupt...

  • Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament (1851)

    THESE THINGS; the truths of which he had spoken. To point out the errors of popery and the predictions of the Bible concerning it, and to warn the people against its seductive, demoralizing, and ruino...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE PERSONAL CONDUCT OF TIMOTHY. Timothy as a good teacher:...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Manly Luscombe Commentary on New Testament

    If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the word of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained. 1. Brethr...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    THE GOOD SERVANT 1 Timothy 4:6 “In pointing out these things to the brethren”: The expression “these things” certainly includes what is mentioned in 1 Timothy 4:1. What Paul is writing is not just for...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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 li...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    IF THOU PUT THE BRETHREN IN REMEMBRANCE OF THESE THINGS; if by thy preaching publicly, and by thy more private instructions of Christians at Ephesus, thou teachest them these things. THOU SHALT BE A G...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    1 Timothy 4:6 instruct G5294 (G5734) brethren G80 things G5023 be G2071 (G5704) good G2570 minister G1249 Jesus...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    1 Timothy 4:6. IF THOU PUT THE BRETHREN IN REMEMBRANCE. The Greek verb is hardly so definite, and is better expressed by ‘ _suggesting'_ or ‘ _advising.'_ The use of the word tends to limit ‘these thi...

  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

    IF THOU PUT THE BRETHREN IN MIND OF THESE THINGS (ταυτα υποτιθεμενος τοις αδελφοις). Present middle participle of υποτιθημ, to place under, to suggest, old and common verb, here only in N.T., "sugg...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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 the...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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....

  • The Bible Study New Testament

    THESE INSTRUCTIONS. "You must teach the truth about these things I have just mentioned, to warn the brothers about the false things that some will teach." AS YOU FEED YOURSELF SPIRITUALLY. "If you are...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ 1 Timothy 4:7. BUT REFUSE PROFANE AND OLD WIVES’ FABLES.—Have nothing whatever to do with those irreligious and pitiable myths. What some reputed as wisdom St. Paul ca...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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 fr...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 4:1; 1 Corinthians 4:17; 1 Corinthians 4:2; 1 Peter 2:2;...

  • Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament (4 Volume Set)

    If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things [τ α υ τ α υ π ο τ ι θ ε μ ε ν ο ς τ ο ι ς α δ ε λ φ ο ι ς]. The verb only here and Romans 16:4. Lit. to put under; so almost without exception...

  • William Burkitt's Expository Notes

    Our apostle proceeds from this verse to the end of the chapter, to lay several directions before Timothy with reference to his ministerial office. The first of which is that he suggest unto, or PUT TH...

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