1 Timothy 3:14 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁴These things write I unto thee, hoping to come unto thee shortly:

1 Timothy 3:14 —

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Cross-References

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1 Corinthians 11:34
And if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that ye come not together unto condemnation. And the rest will I set in order when I come.
Philemon 1:22
But withal prepare me also a lodging: for I trust that through your prayers I shall be given unto you.
2 John 1:12
Having many things to write unto you, I would not write with paper and ink: but I trust to come unto you, and speak face to face, that our joy may be full.
1 Thessalonians 2:18
Wherefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again; but Satan hindered us.
1 Timothy 4:13
Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.

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Commentary

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

(vv. 14-16)

He concludes the chapter with a particular direction to Timothy. He hoped shortly to come to him, to give him further directions and assistance in his work, and to see that Christianity was well planted, and took root well, at Ephesus; he therefore wrote the more briefly to him. But he wrote lest he should tarry long, that Timothy might know how to behave himself in the house of God, how to conduc…

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

(vv. 14)

14. write I ... hoping--that is, “though I hope to come unto thee shortly” (1Ti 4:13). As his hope was not very confident (1Ti 3:15), he provides for Timothy’s lengthened superintendence by giving him the preceding rules to guide him. He now proceeds to give more general instructions to him as an evangelist, having a “gift” committed to him (1Ti 4:14). shortly--Greek, “sooner,” namely, than is pre…