1 Timóteo 4:1-10 NVIPT

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 1 Timothy 4:4

(4) For every creature of God is good.—To teach that anything created was unclean would be an insult to the Creator. The very fact of its being His creation is enough. If made by God, then it must be good.And nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving.—Every kind of food and drink may become hateful in the eyes of the all-pure God if misused, if partaken of without any sense of gratitude to the Divine giver. But nothing which can be made use of as food ought to be regarded as... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 1 Timothy 4:5

(5) For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.—Not only are all created things to be considered pure, and not lightly to be put aside; but in the sight of God “every creature” is holy when received as His gift with thanksgiving and with prayer—such thanksgiving-prayer containing thoughts in exact accordance with the Spirit of God revealed in Scripture. Thus all food is sanctified, not only, or even chiefly, by the common formula of a Christian grace before meat. This too often... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 1 Timothy 4:6

(6) 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 Timothy 4:3-5. Not a few, probably, in that Ephesian flock had been won over by the persuasive words of the false teachers to attribute a peculiar virtue to such practices—practices which, if persevered in, St. Paul well knew would tend to set up for imitation in the Church an unreal, unhealthy... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 1 Timothy 4:7

(7) But refuse profane and old wives’ fables.—Here Timothy—who has been previously (see 1 Timothy 4:1-6) warned against a false asceticism, against putting an unnatural interpretation on the words of Christ, against sympathising with a teaching which would unfit men and women for practical every-day life—is now urged to guard himself against the temptation to give himself up to the favourite and apparently enticing study of the sayings of the famous Jewish Rabbis, in which every book, almost... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 1 Timothy 4:8

(8) 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 4:3. The stern repression of all human passions and desires, the abstinence from all compliance with the natural impulses of the flesh—such an unnatural warfare, such an exercise, such a training of the body, no doubt in many cases would lead, in many cases certainly has led, the individual to a... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 1 Timothy 4:9

(9) This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation.—Again we have the striking formula which always calls attention to some great truth which, in the Church of the first days, had already obtained among the congregations a broad, if not a universal currency, as one of the great watchwords of the faith. Now we find one of these taken apparently from a Christian hymn, now from one of the public prayers or thanksgivings. The “faithful saying,” in this instance, was that “godliness,” that... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 1 Timothy 4:10

(10) For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach.—And for this end—to obtain this glorious promise, this highest blessedness here, that endless life with God hereafter, to win this glorious promise—we Christian missionaries and teachers care for no toil, however painful—shrink from no shame, however agonising.Because we trust in the living God.—More accurately translated, because we have our hope in the living God. And this is why we toil and endure shame. We know that the promise made... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - 1 Timothy 4:1-16

1 Timothy 4:2 It is not the suffering, and mutilation, and death of man's body that most needs to be diminished it is the mutilation and death of his soul. Not the Red Cross is needed, but the simple Cross of Christ to destroy falsehood and deception. Tolstoy (preface to Sevastopol). References. IV. 3. Expositor (7th Series), vol. vi. p. 177. IV. 6. Ibid. (5th Series), vol. i. p. 337. IV. 7. W. J. Hocking, Christian World Pulpit, vol. xliv. p. 187. A. Maclaren, Expositions of Holy... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - 1 Timothy 4:7-8

Chapter 13THE COMPARATIVE VALUE OF BODILY EXERCISE AND OF GODLINESS. - 1 Timothy 4:7-8.IT is almost impossible to decide what St. Paul here means by "bodily exercise." Not that either the phrase or the passage in which it occurs is either difficult or obscure. But the phrase may mean either of two things, both of which make excellent sense in themselves, and both of which fit the context.At the beginning of this chapter the Apostle warns Timothy against apostates who shall "give heed to... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - 1 Timothy 4:1-16

IV. CONCERNING THE LATTER-DAY APOSTASY CHAPTER 4 1. What the Spirit has predicted (1 Timothy 4:1-5 ) 2. The remedies against apostasy (1 Timothy 4:6-16 ) 1 Timothy 4:1-5 The mystery of godliness having been mentioned, the apostle speaks of Satan’s power in opposition to the faith and truth of God (the mystery of godliness here, and the mystery of iniquity in 2 Thessalonians). “But the Spirit speaketh expressly that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to... read more

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 1 Timothy 4:4

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 1 Timothy 4:5

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 1 Timothy 4:6

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 1 Timothy 4:7

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 1 Timothy 4:8

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 1 Timothy 4:9

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 1 Timothy 4:10

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - 1 Timothy 4:1-16

Expositor's Bible Commentary - 1 Timothy 4:7-8

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - 1 Timothy 4:1-16

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