1 Timóteo 4:1-10 NVIPT

Geneva Study Bible - 1 Timothy 4:1

4:1 Now {1} the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the {a} faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;(1) He contrasts that true doctrine, with false opinions, which he foretells that certain ones who shall fall away from God and his religion, will bring in by the suggestion of Satan, and so that a great number will give ear to them.(a) From the true doctrine of God. read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - 1 Timothy 4:2

4:2 {2} Speaking lies in {b} hypocrisy; having their {c} conscience seared with a hot iron;(2) Even though heretics pretend holiness ever so much, yet they have no conscience.(b) For they will as it were practise the art of disguised persons and players, so that we may not think they will lie lurking in some one corner or keep any resemblance of being shameful.(c) Whose conscience became so hard, that there grew a callous over it, and so became to have a canker in it, and now at length required... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - 1 Timothy 4:3

4:3 {3} Forbidding to marry, [and commanding] to abstain from meats, {4} which God hath created {5} to be received {6} with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.(3) He sets down two types of this false doctrine, that is, the law of single life, and the difference of meats.(4) He proves that he justly called such doctrines devilish, first, because the teachers of them make laws of things which are not their own: for have they created the meats?(5) Secondly, because they... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - 1 Timothy 4:4

4:4 {7} For every creature of God [is] good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:(7) He sets an apostolic rule for taking away the difference of meats, against that false doctrine. read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - 1 Timothy 4:5

4:5 {8} For it is {d} sanctified by the {e} word of God and prayer.(8) He properly uses God’s benefits who acknowledges the giver of them by his word, and calls upon him.(d) It is so made pure and holy in respect of us, so that we may use it with a good conscience, as received from the Lord’s hands.(e) We confess and acknowledge that God is the maker and giver of those creatures which we use. Secondly, that we are of the number of those, who through Christ’s benefit, have recovered that right... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - 1 Timothy 4:6

4:6 {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.(9) The conclusion with an exhortation to Timothy, to propound these things diligently to the churches, which he had gotten from the apostle even as though he were being fed.(f) Never departing from it in the least. read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - 1 Timothy 4:7

4:7 {10} But refuse profane and old wives’ fables, {11} and exercise thyself [rather] unto {g} godliness.(10) He contrasts again true doctrine not only with the false and apostate doctrine, but also with all vain and curious wiles.(11) It is not only necessary that the minister of the word be sound in doctrine, but also that his life is godly and religious.(g) In the true serving of God. read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - 1 Timothy 4:8

4:8 {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 exercise, and not in outward strictness of life, which though it is something to be esteemed, if it is used correctly, yet it is in no way comparable with godliness. For it profits not in and of itself, but through the benefit of another; but godliness has the promise both of the present life, and of... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - 1 Timothy 4:9

4:9 {13} This [is] a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation.(13) He goes a little from his matter, and shows that those who give themselves to godliness, even though they are afflicted and reproached, are nonetheless not to be considered miserable as other men are, because they are not afflicted for that reason that other men are, and the end of them both is far different one from the other. For how can God forsake his own, who is bountiful even towards his enemies? And he wishes that... read more

L.M. Grant

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Timothy 4:1-16

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 vital and valuable! Not that this verse 1 speaks of a general apostasy, as will be true in the last days, for the apostle speaks only of "some" apostatizing. Yet it is a determined effort of Satan to corrupt the truth of the sacred Word of God and to obscure the glory of the manifestation of God... read more

Geneva Study Bible - 1 Timothy 4:1

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Geneva Study Bible - 1 Timothy 4:3

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Geneva Study Bible - 1 Timothy 4:5

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Geneva Study Bible - 1 Timothy 4:7

Geneva Study Bible - 1 Timothy 4:8

Geneva Study Bible - 1 Timothy 4:9

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Timothy 4:1-16

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