1 Timothy 1:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do.

1 Timothy 1:4 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Timothy 4:7
But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.
Titus 1:14
Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.
Titus 3:9
But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
2 Timothy 4:4
And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
2 Peter 1:16
For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-4)

Here is, I. The inscription of the epistle, from whom it is sent: Paul an apostle of Jesus Christ, constituted an apostle by the commandment of God our Saviour, and Lord Jesus Christ. His credentials were unquestionable. He had not only a commission, but a commandment, not only from God our Saviour, but from Jesus Christ: he was a preacher of the gospel of Christ, and a minister of the kingdom of…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 4)

4. fables--legends about the origin and propagation of angels, such as the false teachers taught at Colosse (Col 2:18-23). “Jewish fables” (Tit 1:14). “Profane, and old wives’ fables” (1Ti 4:7; 2Ti 4:4). genealogies--not merely such civil genealogies as were common among the Jews, whereby they traced their descent from the patriarchs, to which Paul would not object, and which he would not as here…