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

1 Corinthians 8:8

Colossians 2:21

Hebrews 13:9

Little

Hebrews 9:9

Having

General references

Luke 5:38

Luke 12:31

Bible References

Bodily

It is true that a particular kind of food will not bring us into God's presence; we are neither inferior to others if we abstain from it, nor superior to them if we eat it.

"Do not handle this;" "Do not taste that;" "Do not touch that other thing" --

Do not be drawn aside by all sorts of strange teaching; for it is well to have the heart made stedfast through God's grace, and not by special kinds of food, from which those who scrupulously attend to them have derived no benefit.

Little

And this is a figure--for the time now present--answering to which both gifts and sacrifices are offered, unable though they are to give complete freedom from sin to him who ministers.

Having

"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for to them belongs the Kingdom of the Heavens.

But make His Kingdom and righteousness your chief aim, and then these things shall all be given you in addition.

And whoever has forsaken houses, or brothers or sisters, or father or mother, or children or lands, for my sake, shall receive many times as much and shall have as his inheritance the Life of the Ages.

You know the Commandments--'Do not murder;' 'Do not commit adultery;' 'Do not steal;' 'Do not lie in giving evidence;' 'Do not defraud;' 'Honour thy father and thy mother.'"

But make His Kingdom the object of your pursuit, and these things shall be given you in addition.

Now we know that for those who love God all things are working together for good--for those, I mean, whom with deliberate purpose He has called.

For everything belongs to you--be it Paul or Apollos or Peter, the world or life or death, things present or future--everything belongs to you;

seeing that His divine power has given us all things that are needful for life and godliness, through our knowledge of Him who has appealed to us by His own glorious perfections.

And this is the promise which He Himself has given us--the Life of the Ages.

"'He who overcomes--I will make him a pillar in the sanctuary of My God, and he shall never go out from it again. And I will write on him the name of My God, and the name of the city of My God, the new Jerusalem, which is to come down out of Heaven from My God, and My own new name.

General references

But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins.

But make His Kingdom the object of your pursuit, and these things shall be given you in addition.