1 Timothy 4:6

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained.

Thou put

A good

Nourished

1 Peter 2:2

Good doctrine

2 John 1:9

Thou hast

Philippians 3:16

2 Timothy 3:14

Bible References

Thou put

So be on the alert, remember how for three whole years I never ceased night and day to watch over each one of you with tears.

Still, by way of refreshing your memory, I have written you with a certain freedom, in virtue of my divine commission

To ensure this, I am sending you Timotheus, my beloved and trustworthy son in the Lord; he will remind you of those methods in Christ Jesus which I teach everywhere in every church.

Hence I would remind you to rekindle the divine gift which you received when my hands were laid upon you;

Remind men of this: adjure them before the Lord not to bandy arguments ??no good comes out of that, it only means the undoing of your audience.

Hence I mean to keep on reminding you of this, although you are aware of it and are fixed in the Truth as it is;

This is the second letter I have already written to you, beloved, stirring up your pure mind by way of reminder,

Now I want to remind you of what you are perfectly aware, that though the Lord once brought the People safe out of Egypt, he subsequently destroyed the unbelieving,

A good

So he said to them, "Well then, every scribe who has become a disciple of the Realm of heaven is like a householder who produces what is new and what is old from his stores."

This is how you are to look upon us, as servants of Christ and stewards of God's secret truths.

and he has further qualified me to be the minister of a new covenant ??a covenant not of written law but of spirit; for the written law kills but the Spirit makes alive.

I prove myself at all points a true minister of God, by great endurance, by suffering, by troubles, by calamities,

Our beloved brother Tychicus, a faithful minister in the Lord, will give you all information about me, so that you may know how I am;

Tychicus, that beloved brother and faithful minister and fellow-servant in the Lord, will give you all information about me.

I sent Timotheus our brother, a minister of God in the gospel of Christ, for your strengthening and encouragement in the faith,

Do your utmost to let God see that you at least are a sound workman, with no need to be ashamed of the way you handle the word of the Truth.

Nourished

we are to hold by the truth, and by our love to grow up wholly into Him. For He, Christ, is the head, and under him,

instead of keeping in touch with that Head under whom the entire Body, supplied with joints and sinews and thus compacted, grows with growth divine.

Let the inspiration of Christ dwell in your midst with all its wealth of wisdom; teach and train one another with the music of psalms, with hymns, and songs of the spiritual life; praise God with thankful hearts.

but hold you to what you have been taught, hold to your convictions, remember who your teachers were,

Like newly-born children, thirst for the pure, spiritual milk to make you grow up to salvation.

Good doctrine

immoral persons, sodomites, kidnappers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine

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

Anyone who teaches novelties and refuses to fall in with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the doctrine that tallies with piety,

Jesus told them in reply, "My teaching is not my own but his who sent me;

for the time will come when people will decline to be taught sound doctrine and will accumulate teachers to suit themselves and tickle their own fancies;

You must instruct people in what is due to sound doctrine.

Anyone who is 'advanced' and will not remain by the doctrine of Christ, does not possess God: he who remains by the doctrine of Christ possesses both the Father and the Son.

Thou hast

Only, we must let our steps be guided by such truth as we have attained.

but hold you to what you have been taught, hold to your convictions, remember who your teachers were,