1 Corinthians 4:17

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as I teach every where in every church.

I sent

Who is

1 Corinthians 4:15

1 Timothy 1:2

2 Timothy 1:2

My ways

In

1 Corinthians 14:33

General references

2 Corinthians 12:17

Bible References

I sent

If Timothy visit you, take care he may be perfectly safe: for he labours in the cause of christianity, as well as I.

after this, Paul had a design to pass thro' Macedonia and Achaia in his way to Jerusalem: purposing when he had been there to make a visit to Rome.

However, I hope by the favour of the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you very soon, that I may have some encouragement by knowing the state of your affairs:

a minister of God, and our collegue in preaching the gospel of Christ, that by establishing you in the faith, and by his exhortations,

Who is

for though you may have ten thousand christian preceptors, you cannot have many fathers; since it was I that first instructed you in the gospel of Christ Jesus:

to Timothy my sincere convert, favour, mercy and peace from God our father, and Jesus Christ our Lord.

to Timothy, my dear son, grace, mercy and peace from God the father, and from Jesus Christ our Lord.

My ways

Whatever condition God has allotted to any man, let him go on in the same state he was in when he became a christian: this I give as a standing rule to all churches.

now I commend you, brethren, for remembring all my orders, and for keeping the rules I delivered to you.

Now as to the collection for the converts at Jerusalem, do as I have directed for the churches of Galatia.

As for me, you are perfectly acquainted with my doctrine, my conduct, my designs, my temper, my benevolence, my constancy,

In

for God is not the God of confusion, but of peace, in all christian assemblies.

General references

what, did I make a gain of you by any body I sent to you?