1 Timothy 4:15 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁵Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.

1 Timothy 4:15 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Matthew 5:16
Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
Psalms 143:5
I remember the days of old; I meditate on all thy works; I muse on the work of thy hands.
Philippians 2:15-16
That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world; …
Psalms 104:34
My meditation of him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the LORD.
Acts 6:4
But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word.

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Commentary

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

(vv. 6-16)

The apostle would have Timothy to instil into the minds of Christians such sentiments as might prevent their being seduced by the judaizing teachers. Observe, Those are good ministers of Jesus Christ who are diligent in their work; not that study to advance new notions, but that put the brethren in remembrance of those things which they have received and heard. Wherefore I will not be negligent to…

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

(vv. 15)

15. Meditate--Greek, “Meditate CAREFULLY upon” (Psa 1:2; 119:15; compare “Isaac,” Ge 24:63). these things--(1Ti 4:12-14). As food would not nourish without digestion, which assimilates the food to the substance of the body, so spiritual food, in order to benefit us, needs to be appropriated by prayerful meditation. give thyself wholly to--literally, “BE in these things”; let them engross thee whol…