1 Timothy 1:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:

1 Timothy 1:5 —

Old words in this verse

charity: — love.

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Timothy 1:19
Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck:
Galatians 5:22
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
Galatians 5:13-14
For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. …
2 Timothy 2:22
Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
2 Timothy 1:5
When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also.

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Commentary

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

(vv. 5-11)

Here the apostle instructs Timothy how to guard against the judaizing teachers, or others who mingled fables and endless genealogies with the gospel. He shows the use of the law, and the glory of the gospel. I. He shows the end and uses of the law: it is intended to promote love, for love is the fulfilling of the law, Rom. 13:10. 1. The end of the commandment is charity, or love, Rom. 13:8. The ma…

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

(vv. 5)

5. But--in contrast to the doctrine of the false teachers. the end--the aim. the commandment--Greek, “of the charge” which you ought to urge on your flock. Referring to the same Greek word as in 1Ti 1:3, 18; here, however, in a larger sense, as including the Gospel “dispensation of God” (see on 1Ti 1:4; 1Ti 1:11), which was the sum and substance of the “charge” committed to Timothy wherewith he sh…