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1 Timothy 4:10 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: King James Version
" For therefore we ➔ both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe. "
1 Timothy 4:10
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
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.
This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation.
For therefore we ➔ both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe.
These things command and teach.
Let ➔ no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
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1 Timothy 4:1
"Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;"
1 Timothy 4:2
"Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having ➔ their conscience seared with a hot iron;"
1 Timothy 4:3
"Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth."
1 Timothy 4:4
"For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:"
1 Timothy 4:5
"For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer."
1 Timothy 4:6
"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."
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