Bible Chapter Summary
1 Timothy 4 Summary
Warnings Against False Teachers
Paul warns that in later times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils, forbidding marriage and commanding abstinence from meats that God created for thanksgiving. Every creature of God is good and nothing is to be refused if received with thanksgiving and sanctified by God's word and prayer. Timothy is instructed to be a good minister by putting brethren in remembrance of these things and refusing profane fables, exercising himself unto godliness instead. Godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of both present and future life.
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Key verses
1 Timothy 4:1-3
“Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;”
1 Timothy 4:6-7
“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.”
1 Timothy 4:8
“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.”
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