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 comes, take care that he has no cause for feeling anxious while he is with you. He is doing the Master's work no less than I am.

Sometime after these events Paul resolved to go through Macedonia and Greece, and then make his way to Jerusalem. "And after I have been there," he said, "I must visit Rome also."

I hope, however, as one who trusts in the Lord Jesus, to send Timothy to you before long, so that I may myself be cheered by receiving news of you.

And sent Timothy, our Brother and God's minister of the Good News of the Christ, to strengthen you, and to encourage you in your faith,

Who is

Though you may have thousands of instructors in the Faith of Christ, yet you have not many fathers. It was I who, through union with Christ Jesus, became your father by means of the Good News.

To Timothy, my true Child in the Faith: May God, the Father, and Christ Jesus, our Lord, bless you, and be merciful to you, and give you peace.

OMITTED TEXT

My ways

In any case, a man should continue to live in the condition which the Lord has allotted to him, and in which he was when God called him. This is the rule that I lay down in every Church.

I praise you, indeed, because you never forget me, and are keeping my injunctions in mind, exactly as I laid them upon you.

With reference to the Collection for Christ's People, I want you to follow the instructions that I gave to the Churches in Galatia.

But you, Timothy, were a close observer of my teaching, my conduct, my purposes, my faith, my forbearance, my love, and my patient endurance,

In

For God is not a God of disorder, but of peace.) This custom prevails in all the Churches of Christ's People.

General references

Do you assert that I took advantage of you through any of those whom I have sent to you?