Parallel Verses

Modern King James verseion

Hold on to yourself and to the doctrine; continue in them, for doing this you shall both save yourself and those who hear you.

New American Standard Bible

Pay close attention to yourself and to your teaching; persevere in these things, for as you do this you will ensure salvation both for yourself and for those who hear you.

King James Version

Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.

Holman Bible

Pay close attention to your life and your teaching; persevere in these things, for by doing this you will save both yourself and your hearers.

International Standard Version

Pay close attention to your life and your teaching. Persevere in these things, because if you do so, you will save both yourself and those who listen to you.

A Conservative Version

Hold firm to thyself and to the doctrine. Continue in them, for in doing this thou will save both thyself and those who hear thee.

American Standard Version

Take heed to thyself, and to thy teaching. Continue in these things; for in doing this thou shalt save both thyself and them that hear thee.

Amplified

Pay close attention to yourself [concentrate on your personal development] and to your teaching; persevere in these things [hold to them], for as you do this you will ensure salvation both for yourself and for those who hear you.

An Understandable Version

Pay close attention to yourself and to what you teach [people]. Continue doing these things, for in doing them you will both save yourself and those who listen to you.

Anderson New Testament

Take heed to yourself, and to your teaching; continue in them; for by doing this, you will save both yourself, and those who hear you.

Bible in Basic English

Give attention to yourself and your teaching. Go on in these things; for in doing so you will get salvation for yourself and for those who give hearing to you.

Common New Testament

Take heed to yourself and to your teaching; persevere in them, for if you do, you will save both yourself and your hearers.

Daniel Mace New Testament

take care how you behave, and what you teach. persevere in these duties: for by the practice of them, you will save both yourself, and those who hear you.

Darby Translation

Give heed to thyself and to the teaching; continue in them; for, doing this, thou shalt save both thyself and those that hear thee.

Godbey New Testament

Take heed to yourself and the teaching: continue in these things; for doing this you will indeed save yourself and those who hear you.

Goodspeed New Testament

Look out for yourself and for your teaching. Persevere in your work, for if you do you will save both yourself and those who listen to you.

John Wesley New Testament

Take heed to thyself and to thy teaching: continue in them, for in so doing thou shalt save both thyself and them that hear thee.

Julia Smith Translation

Take heed to thyself, and to the doctrine; remain in them: for doing this, and thou shalt save thyself, and them hearing thee.

King James 2000

Take heed unto yourself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this you shall both save yourself, and them that hear you.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Fix [your] attention on yourself and on your teaching. Continue in them, for [by] doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Take heed unto thyself and unto learning, and continue therein. For if thou shalt so do, thou shalt save thyself, and them that hear thee.

Moffatt New Testament

Watch yourself and watch your teaching; stick to your work; if you do that, you will save your hearers as well as yourself.

Montgomery New Testament

Give heed to yourself and to your teaching. Persevere in these things, for by doing this you will save both yourself and your hearers.

NET Bible

Be conscientious about how you live and what you teach. Persevere in this, because by doing so you will save both yourself and those who listen to you.

New Heart English Bible

Pay attention to yourself, and to your teaching. Continue in these things, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.

Noyes New Testament

Give heed to thyself, and to thy teaching; continue in them; for in doing this thou wilt save both thyself and them that hear thee.

Sawyer New Testament

Attend to yourself, and to teaching; continue in it, for doing this you will both save yourself and those that hear you.

The Emphasized Bible

Be giving heed to thyself, and to thy teaching, - abide still in them; for, this doing, both, thyself, shalt thou save, and them that hearken to thee.

Thomas Haweis New Testament

Take heed unto thyself, and to thy doctrine; abide in them: for so doing thou shalt both save thyself, and those who hear thee.

Twentieth Century New Testament

Look to yourself as well as to your teaching. Persevere in this, for your doing so will mean Salvation for yourself as well as for your hearers.

Webster

Take heed to thyself and to thy doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou wilt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.

Weymouth New Testament

Be on your guard as to yourself and your teaching. Persevere in these things; for by doing this you will make certain your own salvation and that of your hearers.

Williams New Testament

Make it your habit to pay close attention to yourself and your teaching. Persevere in these things, for if you do you will save both yourself and those who listen to you.

World English Bible

Pay attention to yourself, and to your teaching. Continue in these things, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.

Worrell New Testament

Take heed to yourself, and to the teaching; continue in them; for, doing this, you will save both yourself and those who hear you.

Worsley New Testament

Take heed to thyself, and to thy doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this, thou wilt both save thyself and those that hear thee.

Youngs Literal Translation

take heed to thyself, and to the teaching; remain in them, for this thing doing, both thyself thou shalt save, and those hearing thee.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
ἐπέχω 
Epecho 
Usage: 5

σεαυτοῦ σεαυτῷ σεαυτόν σαυτοῦ σαυτῷ σα
Seautou 
σεαυτοῦ σεαυτῷ σεαυτόν σαυτοῦ σαυτῷ σα
Seautou 
Usage: 31
Usage: 31

and



and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0
Usage: 0

διδασκαλία 
Didaskalia 
Usage: 19

ἐπιμένω 
Epimeno 
Usage: 18


Usage: 0

for
γάρ 
Gar 
for, , not tr
Usage: 825

in doing
ποιέω 
Poieo 
do, make, bring forth, commit, cause, work, show, bear, keep, fulfil, deal, perform, not tr, , vr do
Usage: 372

τοῦτο 
Touto 
Usage: 232

thou shalt
σώζω 
Sozo 
Usage: 79


and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0

σώζω 
Sozo 
Usage: 79

ἀκούω 
Akouo 
Usage: 313

Devotionals

Devotionals containing 1 Timothy 4:16

References

Hastings

Prayers for 1 Timothy 4:16

Context Readings

Instructions For Ministry

15 Meditate on these things; be in these things in order that your improvement may appear to all. 16 Hold on to yourself and to the doctrine; continue in them, for doing this you shall both save yourself and those who hear you.

Cross References

Titus 2:7

In all things having shown yourself a pattern of good works: in the doctrine, purity, sensibleness, without corruption,

Romans 11:14

if by any means I may provoke those who are my flesh to jealousy, and might save some of them.

1 Chronicles 28:10

Take heed now, for Jehovah has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary. Be strong and do it.

2 Chronicles 19:6

And he said to the judges, Take heed what you do. For you do not judge for man, but for Jehovah, who is with you in the judgment.

Isaiah 55:11

so shall My Word be, which goes out of My mouth; it shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall certainly do what I sent it to do.

Jeremiah 23:22

But if they had stood in My wisdom and had caused My people to hear My Words, then they would have turned them from their evil way and from the evil of their doings.

Ezekiel 3:19-21

Yet if you warn the wicked, and he does not turn from his wickedness nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul.

Ezekiel 33:7-9

And you, son of man, I have set you a watchman to the house of Israel. Therefore you shall hear the Word from My mouth, and warn them from Me.

Mark 13:9

But take heed to yourselves. For they shall deliver you up to sanhedrins, and in the synagogues you shall be beaten. And you shall be brought before rulers and kings for My sake, for a testimony against them.

Luke 21:34

And take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts are weighed down with headaches and drinking and anxieties of this life; and that day should suddenly come on you;

Acts 6:4

But we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the Word.

Acts 20:26-28

Therefore I testify to you on this day that I am pure from the blood of all.

Acts 26:22

Then having obtained help from God, I stand until this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying no other things than those which the prophets and Moses said was going to happen;

Romans 2:7

indeed to those who with patience in good work are seeking for glory, and honor, and incorruptibility, everlasting life.

Romans 10:10-14

For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth one confesses unto salvation.

Romans 16:17

And I exhort you, brothers, to watch those making divisions and offenses contrary to the doctrine which you have learned, and avoid them.

1 Corinthians 3:10-11

According to the grace of God which is given to me, as a wise master builder, I have laid the foundation, and another builds on it. But let every man be careful how he builds on it.

1 Corinthians 9:22

To the weak I became as the weak, so that I might gain the weak. I am made all things to all men, so that I might by all means save some.

1 Corinthians 9:27

But I buffet my body, and lead it captive, lest proclaiming to others I myself might be rejected.

Ephesians 4:14

so that we no longer may be infants, tossed to and fro and carried about by every wind of doctrine, in the dishonesty of men, in cunning craftiness, to the wiles of deceit.

Colossians 4:17

And say to Archippus, Take heed to the ministry which you have received in the Lord, that you fulfill it.

1 Thessalonians 2:16

forbidding us to speak to the nations that they might be saved, to fill up their sins always; but the wrath has come upon them to the uttermost.

1 Thessalonians 2:19-20

For what is our hope or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are you not even to be in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at His coming?

1 Timothy 1:3

Even as I begged you to remain at Ephesus, when I was going to Macedonia, that you might charge some that they teach no other doctrine,

1 Timothy 4:6

Having suggested these things to the brothers, you shall be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the Words of Faith and by the good doctrine which you have followed.

2 Timothy 2:10

Therefore I endure all things for the sake of the elect, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

2 Timothy 3:14

But continue in the things that you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them,

2 Timothy 4:2

preach the Word, be instant in season and out of season, reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long-suffering and doctrine.

Titus 1:9

holding fast the faithful Word according to the doctrine, that he may be able, by sound doctrine, both to exhort and to convict the gainsayers.

Titus 2:15

Speak these things, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no one despise you.

Hebrews 12:15

looking diligently lest any fail of the grace of God, or lest any root of bitterness springing up disturb you, and by it many are defiled,

Hebrews 13:9

Do not be carried about with different and strange doctrines, for it is good for the heart to be established with grace, not with foods, in which those who have walked in them were not helped.

James 5:20

know that he who turns back the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.

2 John 1:8-9

Look to yourselves, so that we may not lose those things which we worked out, but that we may receive a full reward.

King James Version Public Domain

Holman Christian Standard Bible®, Copyright © 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2009 by Holman Bible Publishers.

International Standard Version Copyright © 1996-2008 by the ISV Foundation.

New American Standard Bible Copyright ©1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. All rights reserved. For Permission to Quote Information visit http://www.lockman.org

American Standard Version Public Domain

NET Bible copyright © 1996-2006 by Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. NetBible

Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain