1 Timothy 4:8

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.

Bodily

Little

Hebrews 9:9

Having

General references

Luke 12:31

Bible References

Bodily

And Samuel said, has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.

Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against you: I am God, even your God.

To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? says the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of male goats.

Why have we fasted, they say, and you see not? why have we afflicted our soul, and you take no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and exploit all your laborers.

To what purpose comes there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me.

I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not take delight in your solemn assemblies.

But food commends us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse.

(Touch not; taste not; handle not;

Be not carried about with various and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with foods, which have not profited them that have been observing them.

Little

Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;

Having

And it shall come to pass, if you shall hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD your God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command you this day, that the LORD your God will set you on high above all nations of the earth:

He shall deliver you in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch you.

Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shall you dwell in the land, and verily you shall be fed.

For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.

There shall no evil befall you, neither shall any plague come near your dwelling.

Praise you the LORD. Blessed is the man that fears the LORD, that delights greatly in his commandments.

He will fulfill the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear their cry, and will save them.

Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honor.

Though a sinner does evil a hundred times, and his days are prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, who fear before him:

Say you to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.

And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance forever.

He shall dwell on high: his place of defense shall be the fortresses of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.

Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, Behold, my servants shall eat, but you shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall drink, but you shall be thirsty: behold, my servants shall rejoice, but you shall be ashamed:

Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

But seek you first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

And everyone that has forsaken houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.

You know the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honor your father and mother.

But rather seek you the kingdom of God; and all these things shall be added unto you.

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours;

According as his divine power has given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who has called us to glory and virtue:

And this is the promise that he has promised us, even eternal life.

He that overcomes will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.

General references

And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.

Blessed shall be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your ground, and the fruit of your herds, the increase of your cattle, and the flocks of your sheep.

For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and through this thing you shall prolong your days in the land, which you go over Jordan to possess.

But new wine must be put into new wineskins; and both are preserved.

But rather seek you the kingdom of God; and all these things shall be added unto you.