1 Timothy 4

1 Timothy 4:1

Verse 1

Doctrines of devils; corrupt and wicked doctrines.

1 Timothy 4:2

Verse 2

Seared with a hot iron; hardened to sin.

1 Timothy 4:3

Verse 3

Forbidding, &c.; that is, enjoining self-imposed penances and mortifications, as a mode of obtaining the favor of God. There has been, in all ages of the church, a great tendency to this error.

1 Timothy 4:7

Verse 7

Refuse; reject.–Old wives’ fables; nursery tales, which can only please the merest children in religious knowledge.–Rather unto godliness, that is, to moral and spiritual purity, rather than outward sanctity, sought through self-inflicted mortification.

1 Timothy 4:8

Verse 8

Bodily exercise; the training of the body to privations and hardships, as specified above.–Godliness; holiness of heart.

1 Timothy 4:10

Verse 10

Who is the Savior of all men; inasmuch as he offers salvation to all.

1 Timothy 4:12

Verse 12

Let no man despise thy youth; that is, let your life and conversation be such that they will not.

1 Timothy 4:14

Verse 14

The gift; the ministerial office.–By prophecy; by divine direction.–The presbytery; the eldership, referring to those older than himself in the ministerial work, by whom he was solemnly inducted to the office.

1 Timothy 4:15

Verse 15

Thy profiting; thy spiritual advancement and welfare.