Thematic Bible
1 Timothy 4:1 (show verse)
The Spirit explicitly says that some will fall away from the faith (truth) in later times. Spirits and doctrines of demons will seduce them,
1 Timothy 4:2 (show verse)
through the hypocrisy of men that speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron.
1 Timothy 4:3 (show verse)
They will forbid marrying, [and command] to abstain from food, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
1 Timothy 4:4 (show verse)
For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with thanksgiving.
1 Timothy 4:5 (show verse)
This is because it is sanctified through the word of God and prayer.
1 Timothy 4:6 (show verse)
If you tell the brothers about these things, you will be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith, and of the good doctrine which you have followed until now.
1 Timothy 4:7 (show verse)
Refuse false stories and old wives' fables. Train yourself with godliness in mind.
1 Timothy 4:8 (show verse)
Bodily exercise is profitable for a little. However, godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life that now is and of the life that is to come.
1 Timothy 4:9 (show verse)
Faithful and worthy of full acceptance is the statement.
1 Timothy 4:10 (show verse)
This is why we labor and strive, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.
1 Timothy 4:11 (show verse)
Command and teach these things.
1 Timothy 4:12 (show verse)
Let no man look down on your youth. Be an example to the believers in speech and conduct, in love, in faith and chasteness.
1 Timothy 4:13 (show verse)
Till I come, give attention to reading, to exhortation, to teaching.
1 Timothy 4:14 (show verse)
Do not neglect the spiritual gift in you. It was given to you by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the elders.
1 Timothy 4:15 (show verse)
Be diligent and think about these things. Give yourself wholly to them. That way your progress may be apparent to all.
1 Timothy 4:16 (show verse)
Pay attention to yourself and to your teaching. Continue in these things. When you do this you will save both yourself and those who listen to you.