1 Timothy 4:7 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁷But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.

1 Timothy 4:7 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Timothy 2:16
But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.
Titus 2:12
Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
1 Timothy 1:4
Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do.
2 Peter 1:5-8
And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; …
Titus 3:9
But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

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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. 7)

7. refuse--reject, avoid, have nothing to do with (2Ti 2:23; Tit 3:10). old wives’ fables--anile myths (1Ti 1:4, 9; Tit 1:14). They are “profane,” because leading away from “godliness” or “piety” (1Ti 1:4-7; 6:20; 2Ti 2:16; Tit 1:1, 2). exercise thyself--literally, “exercise thyself” as one undergoing training in a gymnasium. Let thy self-discipline be not in ascetical exercises as the false teach…